My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM R. McNUTT was born in Green county, Pa., in 1811, May 31. He went to Butler county, Ohio, at the age of seven, remaining until 1837, and to Clinton county, Ind., about 1853, and to Vermillion county, Ill., in 1858, removing about this time to Jasper county, Mo. In 1864 the subject of our sketch took a trip across the plains into Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. In these travels he had some wild and thrilling experiences too numerous and lengthy to here relate. He was married Jan. 2, 1840, to Martha Jackson, of Jefferson, Ind., who was a native of Ohio. The names of the children are Hannah J., Elizabeth, Mary A., and Harlan, who died at the age of seven. Mr. McNutt is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his wife is a member of the M. E. Church. The subject of our sketch is one of Jasper county’s largest and best farmers, owning about 400 acres of land, about 300 acres of which is under cultivation, 130 of it averaging thirty bushels of the finest winter wheat to the acre. There is on the farm a fine orchard of eight acres, yielding 1,000 bushels of apples the past season, besides many peaches and pears. Mr. McNutt is sixty-eight years of age, and still hale, healthy, and hearty. He has been a great worker in his time, and will husk corn with any man of his age in the county; has shucked and cribbed 100 bushels in a day. Few men live to such a good old age and come up full of years to the borders of life, so full of good spirits, health, and prosperitj7 to cast a retrospective glance over a complete and well spent long life of labor and usefulness, both to themselves and their fellow men.