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PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY. 529
raising, making a specialty home. He and his wife and daughters are members
of shorthorn Durham
successfully and extensively engaged in stock- tive. He placed his fields under a very high state
of the Methodist Episcopal church; and he cattle and Poland China hogs. Politically he was
belongs to the Grand Army post. He takes a a stanch republican ;
and served as school director
deep interest in church work, and also in the fra-
for many years, and was also supervisor
ternal organization with which he is connected of his township. Both he and his wife were de-
and is an esteemed representative of both. His voted members of the Baptist church. In their
good qualities of heart and mind have won him family were four children, but only two are now
the respect of those with whom he has come in living : Margaret and Sarah L., the latter the
contact, and he enjoys in large measure the warm
esteem of manv friends.
wife of Samuel Schwab, a resident of Windsor,
Missouri.
William S. Barkley was educated in the common
schools, and at the age of twenty years he
enlisted for service in the Union army, becoming
WILLIAM S. BARKLEY.
a member of Company D, Ninty-iHnth Regiment
of Illinois Volunteers, on the 5th of August,
William S. Barkley, deceased, was well known 1862, to serve for three years, or during the war.
He was mustered out July 31, 1865, after active
in agricultural circles in Pike county for many
years. The broad prairies of Illinois have offered field service, in which he took part in many important
splendid opportunities
engagements that led up to to the farmer and stock-
the final tri-
raiser, and many fortunes have been won through umph of the Union arms. When the war was over
the cultivation of the soil or through pasturing he returned to his home and gave his attention to
large herds upon the rich meadow lands of Illinois.
farming and stock-raising, the pursuits to which
among the number who he had been reared, so that he had a practical
Mr. Barkley is
in this line of activity have won knowledge of the best methods of carrying on
success. He
was a native of Ross county, Ohio, born on the both branches of the business. He also dealt in
4th of July, 1842, and his parents were Henry stock as a buyer and shipper, and his careful
both of whom control of his business affairs led to very gratifying
J. and Mary (Snyder) Barkley,
were natives of Ohio. The father was born in
success.
1816 and the mother October 29, 1812. They On the loth of October, 1867, Mr. Barkley was
became residents of Pike county in 1850, at which united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Doran,
time their son William was but a small lad. Their who was born in Quincy, Illinois, March 27,
first home was about two miles north of Barry, 1849, and ls a daughter of James and Jane
and later they removed to a farm two and a half (Moore) Doran. The father's birth occurred in
miles northeast of Barry, where they lived for Waynesville, Ohio, March 3, 1812, and the
about forty years, being well known as early and mother was born in Waynesville, September 10,
representative citizens of the community. When 1815. They came to Adams county, Illinois, in
four decades had passed they left Illinois and 1846, settling in Quincy, where they lived for
went to Bentonville, Arkansas, where the father four years, and then removed to Pike county in
lived retired until his death, which occurred January
1850. The father was a tanner by trade, following
27, 1892, when he was in his seventy-seventh
year. His widow survived him for about nine that pursuit in his early life; and on coming
to Illinois, turned his attention to agricultural
years, passing away on the 7th of February, 1901. interests. He lived on the Blanchard farm, now
He was a stone-cutter by trade, but after coming included within the corporation limits of the city
to Illinois turned his attention to agricultural pursuits,
of Quincy. At one time he owned about four
and at the time of his death was the owner
of three hundred acres of rich and valuable land
hundred acres of valuable Pike county land; and
he made many improvements upon his property,
which was a tract of prairie, arable and produc-
in Pike county. While living in this county he