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William T. McMahan was born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1832, and is a son of James and Sarah T. (Mason) McMahan, natives respectively of Virginia and Tennessee; they moved to Missouri about 1841, and settled on a farm near where the town of Seymour now is, where the father made his home until May, 1853. William T. was reared in Webster County. In September, 1858, he was married to Miss Susan Freeman, a daughter of Littleton Freeman, formerly of Tennessee, but now a resident of Wright County, Mo. Mrs. Susan McMahan was born November 10, 1838. In the spring of 1860 they purchased eighty acres of their present farm, which they have since increased from time to time, until they now own 408 acres, with 340 under cultivation. They have large and comfortable buildings on their farm and a good bearing orchard of 400 trees. This with other improvements and conveniences makes for them one of the finest homes in the county. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, William T. enlisted first in the Home Guards, then in the State Militia, and in the fall of 1864 in the regular United States service, in the Forty-eighth Missouri Infantry, and served until the final close, when he returned home. Their children are as follows: James was born September 21, 1859, and was married to Eva A. Trimble, of Webster County; Arabella, born June 16, 1861, wife of John B. Foster, of Marshfield, Mo.; Clella J., born November 26, 1862, wife of W. H. Oliver, of Webster County; Mattie E., born November 24, 1864, wife of Perrie T. Hyde, of Webster County; Tempa S., born November 2, 1866, wife of J. W. Fuson, of Seymour; Hulda F., born November 6, 1868; Samuel D., born May 5, 1872; William T. Jr., born July 4, 1875; Lillie and Rosa were born March 13, 1878; Lillie died August 22, 1878, and Rosie died March 6, 1880. Mr. McMahan is an energetic and wide-a-wake farmer, and deals largely in mules. He is a Master Mason, and Mrs. McMahan is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.