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DAVID W. HEADLEE. Prominent among the early settlers of Jasper county, since the war, is the subject of this sketch; he was born in Monroe county, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1841, the son of John and Elizabeth Headlee, natives of Pennsylvania. Of eight children our subject was the second child. Was educated in Indiana, to which state he moved with his parents in 1849. In 1858 moved to Andrew county, Mo., and in 1861 our subject enlisted in Company D, Ninety-eighth M. S. M., and served until the close of the war Was mustered out at St. Joe, Mo., and returned to Andrew county, and taught school. Was married to Miss Emaline Townsend, Dec. 28, 1865. She was born in Morgan county, Indiana, Nov. 15, 1845. Our subject then engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1869 Mr. Headlee came to Jasper county and bought his present farm, and in 1873 settled on the same; has 170 acres under cultivation, with 10 acres of timber; also has 65 acres in Newton county, Mo. His present farm is well watered with a stream running through it, a spring and wells, and there is a good orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Headlee are members of the M. E. Church; Mr. Headlee is vice-president of the County Sunday-school Association; also superintendent of the Sunday-school. He has eight children, named Charles T., William C., Maggie R., David M., John T., Mary B., Merle W., and Bertha E.