Smith, Martin
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Martin V. Smith

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Co. G, 7th KS. Cavalry
From History of Montgomery County, Kansas, By Its Own People, Published by L. Wallace Duncan, Iola, Kansas, 1903, Pg. 332-333:

Smith, Martin VanBuren Bio

On the roster which contains the names of the heroes who fought that this country might live a free and united nation, is found the name of Martin VanBuren Smith, one of the pioneer families of the county, and a gentleman whose singularly upright and correct life has exercised a powerful influence in establishing the high standard of civic righteousness now obtaining. Indeed, Montgomery county owes much of her excellence in matters of government to the “old soldier.” Returning to the crowded arming sections of the east, after those years of strife, he naturally turned to the child whose birth had ushered in the din of battle, and whose strong young limbs were already making rapid strides toward a prosperous future. Here in Kansas, he soon demonstrated that the discipline of army life was the best possible preparation for a civic careerâ€"that control of self is the basic principle of all right living. Fortunate, indeed, was Montgomery county to secure as citizens, in her earlier years, these men, for the four long years of hardship and suffering endured for their country had taught them well its value, and made them doubly desirous of seeing it the best government on earth.

Martin V. Smith

passed the latter part of the 50’s near the Missouri border and was thus prepared by contact with the stirring scenes of that time to respond readily to the call of his country. Early in 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company “G”, of the Seventh Kansas, and, during the struggle, followed the fortunes of his regiment in the bush-whacking warfare carried on west of the Ozark Mountains. He was, finally, honorably discharged for disability and returned to his farm in Linn county. Mr. Smith was born in the “Keystone State”, in Warren county, in 1834, and is the son of Wilson and Nancy (Jackman) Smith, both natives of the county, the Jackmans having been among the earliest pioneers of that section.
Our subject was one of a family of eight childrenâ€"Charlotte, married William McDonald and lives in Warren county; Martin was the second; then in order came Emily, Frank, Rosaline, Charles and Betsey Ann.
Mr. Smith was reared to farm work, receiving the education common in those times in country districts. He remained at home until his twentieth year, when he came west, to Franklin county, Mo. He here engaged in work on the pioneer railroad, of the west, and which afterward became the Missouri Pacific. A year here and a like period in Lee county, Iowa, brought him to Bates county, Mo., where he married and remained until hiss settlement in Linn county, in 1856. This was Mr. Smith’s home until 1869, when he settled on a claim a mile east of his present location. In 1873, he purchased the farm upon which he now resides. It contains 160 acres and lies four miles southeast of the county seat town of Independence.
Mr. Smith has been twice married. The wife of his youth was Mrs. Mary Forbes, nee Knapp. To her were born two childrenâ€"Estelle, who married Frank Griffin, a farmer of Independence township, and whose children are Ethel and Effie; Augusta is the wife of Seward C. Clark and lives at Newkirk, Okla., with five children---Joseph, William, Seward, Edna and Mary. Mrs. Smith, the mother of these children, died in Linn county, Kansas, in January of 1859, and in 1868, our subject was joined in wedlock to the lady who now presides over his home, Miss Addie, daughter of William and Eliza (Smith) Dickey. Mrs. Smith is one of seven childrenâ€"Sarah Ann, widow of John Brown, Honesdale, Pa.; Caroline, deceased; Harriet, Mrs. Alvan Root, of Linn county; Almeda, deceased; Cushman, of Dearing, Kansas; Mrs. Smith; Emma was a twin sister of the latter. Mrs. Smith is the mother of six childrenâ€"Frank H., who married Belle Wise, whose children are Don and Forest; Lillian is the wife of William Fortner, of Independence, whose son is Delbert; and Delbert, Hugh, and Wesley E. are still at home. Hattie died, aged three years.
As before intimated, Mr. Smith and his family have been potent factors in the county’s development. They are members of the United Brethren church, and he supports the Republican party by his vote.


William H. Taylor(1)




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Staff, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 8th Division, Missouri State Guard, C. S. A.
From the 1887 History of Vernon County, Missouri. Brown & Co., p. 873:

WILLIAM H. TAYLOR
(Postmaster, Montevallo)

One of the bravest soldiers who enlisted for service during the late war on the side of the Confederacy was the subject of this sketch, and while his experiences in that struggle may not have been the most important in his life, they are certainly of sufficient interest in this day to briefly mention them at least. Entering the Southern army at the first call for troops to suppress invasion, he was subsequently commissioned captain, and in 1862 was taken prisoner near Montevallo, on the old Bangs’ farm. He was removed to Fort Scott and then sent to Fort Leavenworth, from whence he was released on parole September 6, 1862, remaining on parole until in 1863. In 1865, he surrendered at Nevada. Away back in 1849 he had settled in this county, and in 1858 was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of James Fergus, the county sheriff, a position to which he was elected in 1860, and one that he held until his enlistment. Mr. Taylor came originally from Boyle county, Ky., where he was born October 20, 1831. Jesse Taylor, his father and Elizabeth (Anson) Taylor, his mother, were also Kentuckians by birth, and the parents of six children, of whom William H. was the third, though the eldest son. When quite young he accompanied his parents to Missouri, stopping first at St. Louis, from there going to Warren county, where he grew upon a farm, and then coming here as stated. After the close of the war he went to Illinois for a short time, visiting Nebraska the following fall, but in 1868 he returned again to Nevada. In 1872 he was a second time elected sheriff of the county, a compliment which plainly indicated his worth and fitness for political preferment. His term expired in 1875, and in 1876 he went to Dade county, and after awhile to Arkansas, where he remained two and a half years. During this time he was engaged in a survey of the town of Eureka Springs. In November, 1883, Vernon county again became his home, and in September, 1885, he received the appointment of postmaster by President Cleveland, the duties of which position he is now acceptably discharging. In 1853, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Emaline Gresham, who died in 1854, leaving one son, Willie S. In 1861, Miss Sarah E. Pottorff, of Barry county, Ill., became his wife, and one son has blessed this union, Willis H. Mr. T. is a Knight Templar in the Masonic Order.

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