Author: Kate
Last saved by: Carmen Carter

HISTORY
OF
LACLEDE, CAMDEN, DALLAS,
WEBSTER, WRIGHT, TEXAS, PULASKI,
PHELPS AND DENT COUNTIES,
MISSOURI

FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT, INCLUDING A DEPARTMENT
DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF SUNDRY PERSONAL, BUSI-
NESS, PROFESSIONL AND PRIVATE RECORDS; BESIDES
A VALUABLE FUND OF NOTES, ORIGINAL
OBSERVATIONS, ETC., ETC.
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ILLUSTRATED
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CHICAGO:
THE GOODSPEED PUBLISHING CO.
1889

    Felix G. Cantrell is a brother of Alexander M. Cantrell, whose sketch appears above, and was born in McMinn County, Tenn., on the 6^th of January, 1841, and came to Webster County, Mo., with his mother in 1855. Here he resided until the fall of 1861, when he went to Illinois, and was engaged in farming in Madison County until the fall of 1866, when he returned to Missouri and purchased the old home place, which consists of 440 acres all in one body, nearly one-half of which is bottom land, with 140 acres under cultivation. He has a substantial frame residence, commodious barns and other out-buildings, and his orchard supplies him with sufficient fruit for home use. He was married in Webster County, Mo., on the 9^th of December, 1866, to Malinda Jane Pitchford, who was born in Kentucky and reared in Webster County, and by her is the father of the following children: Joseph Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant. William Gabriel, David Sheridan and Martha Arabelle. The mother of these children died April 11, 1885, and Mr. Cantrell’s marriage to Mrs. Trephena Gilleland took place in Wright County. She is a daughter of Robert Pool, of Wright County, and was the mother of two children by her first marriage, Parthena and Robert Gilleland. By this last marriage there is one child, Abraham Cantrell. Mr. Cantrell is a member of the Baptist Church.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013