ROUND PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP

Samuel Carrington, of Montgomery county, Maryland, married Mildred McDaniel, and settled in Montgomery county, Kentucky. They had Thomas, Randolph, Timothy, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Susan, Sally and Priscilla. Randolph married Catharine McGarey, and they had William, John, Samuel, Randolph, Jr., Emily, Nancy and Permelia. They settled in Callaway county in 1826. William Carrington was judge of the county court one term. He married Susan Fisher. John was married first to Eliza Randolph, and second to Nancy Hyton. Samuel married Lydia A. Bowen. Emily married John Martin. Nancy married Elisha Davis. Permelia married Hiram Hall. All of the above live in Callaway county.

Thomas Boyd, of Pennsylvania, married Grezelda Allen, of the same State, and settled first in Montgomery county, Kentucky, from whence they removed to Callaway county, Missouri, in 1827. Their children were Robert, John, Joseph, Thomas, Jane and Eleanor. Robert married Margaret Rallston, and died in 1872, without issue. Colonel John Boyd, still living in Callaway county, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Mary A. Scott, of Missouri, by whom he had William S., John R., Joseph, Benjamin F., Charles O., Edward L., Grezelda A., Lydia A., George F., Mary E., Sarah E. and Thomas A. The first seven are living. Joseph, son of Thomas Boyd, Sr., married Ann King, by whom he had Matilda J., James E., Thomas G., Cynthia A., Robert M., John K., Grezelda M., Elizabeth S., Carolina H., Joseph W. W. and Newton C. Mr. Boyd settled in Callaway county in 1822. Thomas, son of Thomas Boyd, Sr., married Ann Davis, by whom he had Eliza, Thomas, Grezelda, Mary J., Amanda and Margaret. Jane boyd married Isaac P. Howe, by whom she had Jane, William, John, Thomas, David, Harvey, Margaret and Mary. Ellen married Thomas Caldwell, who settled in Callaway county in 1826.
James Davis was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, March 17, 1794, and married Frances Davis, his cousin. They came to Missouri in 1822, and first settled in Boone county, where they remained one year, and located in 1823, about two and a half miles south of Bloomfield, in Callaway county. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have had fourteen children, two of whom died in infancy. Mr. Davis is still living, and is very active for a man of his great age, being now in his ninetieth year. He is perhaps the oldest man in the county. William J. Hawkins, Ambrose Fry and James Suggett came to the county during the same year, 1823, and located in Mr. Davis’s neighborhood. Mr. Hawkins was a great hunter, and was fond of sport of that kind until his death.

Enoch Murray was an old settler and settled just west of Bloomfield. His son, Benjamin F. Murray, was a lieutenant in the Mexican War.

Doctor John Conger and Doctor Appleton Allen were prominent physicians and also early settlers.
Fountain Bradley, D. E. Guthrie, Benjamin Cason, Sr., Harkins Cason, Larkin Cason, and William Cason, Sr., James Suggett, Thomas Suggett, William Suggett, Martin Turner, James I. McKamey, William McKamey, Hamilton Brown, John Brown, Major Jesse Bull, James McGray, Augustus Murphy, Asa Williams, Robert Boyce, Absalom Kemper, Horace Sheley, Benjamin Van Reason and Singleton Sheley, were all pioneers in this township.
The first church edifice (a small log cabin, daubed with clay) was built by the Cumberland Presbyterians, on what was known as Picayune Prairie.

Lark Fleshman was one of the first school teachers in the township.

CARRINGTON CITY

was laid out on the 5th of June, 1872, by William Carrington, on the northwest quarter of section 33, township 47, range 10. The town is on the Missouri Division of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and is eight miles southwest of Fulton. Shipments are live stock, tobacco, and produce. Population, fifty. Express; United States; mail, daily. M. P. Ashworth is postmaster.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

James Allen, meat market; M. P. Ashworth, express and railroad agent; Rev. W. H. Bagley, Christian; C. A. Davis, general store; James Douglas, blacksmith; M. E. Gilbert, painter; Renoe Bros., live stock; H. S. Rice, justice of the peace; J. K. Robertson, live stock; W. R. Smith, physician; H. G. Turner, constable; J. H. & L. D. Wilkerson, live stock; J. B. Wry, wagonmaker.

BOYDSVILLE

is a post-office in Round Prairie Township.

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