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- 1850 Census:
Name Thomas Haile
Age 52
Birth Year abt 1798
Birthplace Virginia
Home in 1850 District 101, Wayne, Missouri, USA
Gender Male
Family Number 582
Household Members
Name Age
Thomas Haile 52
Hannah Haile 44
Mary Haile 19
Martha Haile 17
Morillus Haile 12
Eliza Haile 8
Nicholas Haile 6
Alexander Haile 37
William Ragedail 20
Napolian B Sitze 18
1860 Census:
Name Thomas Hail
Age 64
Birth Year abt 1796
Gender Male
Birth Place Virginia
Home in 1860 Shawnee, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Post Office Pocahontas
Dwelling Number 2361
Family Number 2374
Occupation Farmer
Real Estate Value 3500
Personal Estate Value 3000
Household Members
Name Age
Thomas Hail
Hannah Hail
Leeman Hail
Elizabeth Hail
Eliza Hail
Nichol D Hail
- Bedford County Tennessee
Deed Book NN
Page 58: N. Woodfin’s heirs. Agreement.
The heirs and widow of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased, late of Bedford Co., TN, now desiring an equal division of all the landed estate of Nicholas Woodfin and whereas there is in the possession of Hanna Woodfin, one of the undersigned, an instrument of writing signed by the undersigned bearing date 4 Oct 1833 granting to Hannah the rents of said landed estate during her lifetime. John D. Gilmore and John L(S). Cooper were appointed surveyor to lay off and divide the estate equally to the following heirs, towit, Hannah Woodfin, Samuel Woodfin gets where he lives, Elizabeth McKinn, Sally Naylor, Polly Edwards, Phebe Swann, Mary Woodfin, Rebecca Woodfin, John Woodfin, and Hannah Hail, all that one acre including the family burying ground to be left out of division for a family burying ground forever.
Signed by John Woodfin, Hannah Woodfin, Thomas Haile, Hannah Haile, Samuel Woodfin, John Naler, Sally Naler, M. Woodfin, Rebecca Woodfin, Phebe Swann, Thomas Swann, M. H. Naler, James McKinn and Elizabeth McKinn. Wit: Thomas Haile, John Woodfin, J. Naler, J. Woodfin and Robert Swann and W. H. Naler.
Reg: 16 Nov 1843. Plat on page 59.
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Page 31 – 22 Apr 1844
Moses Woodfin to W. H. Nailor.
Deed, 33 ½ aceres.
Moses Woodfin to W. H. Nailor. Deed, 33 ½ acres. Moses Woodfin sold to Wade Hampton Nailor a tract of land, being Lot No. 10, and the assigned to Moses Woodfin in the division of the tract of land on which his father Nicholas Woodfin lived. Borders lands of William Guy. And the Graveyard Lot, Wit: Thomas Haile, John Maler, J. D. Naler and Woodfin Naler. Reg: 4 Feb 1845.
Page 162 – 27 Aug 1845. Samuel Woodfin to Thomas Haile. Interest in Negro. Samuel Woodfin, one of the heirs of the late Nicholas and Hannah Woodfin if Bedford County, TN, deceased, sold unto Thomas Haile, all of his interest in the family of negroes (3), belonging to the estate. Wit: J. H. Woodfin and Thomas Edwards. Reg: 30 Aug 1845.
Page 214 - 6 Oct 1845. Thomas Swann and Phebe Swann to Nicholas Swann. Power of attorney. Thomas Swann and Phebe Swann his Wife appointed Nicholas Swann of Noxubee Co., Mississippi, their Attorney to receive of and from the estate of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased, late of Bedford Co., TN, all property, effects or money that may be coming to them as legatees of the estate, to make settlement. Reg: 24 Nov 1845.
Page3 , - 221 , 4 May 1844. Rebecca Woodfin to Woodfin Nalor. 34 acres- Rebecca Woodfin of Hickman Co., KY conveyed to Woodfin Nalor of Bedford County, TN, land belonging to the estate of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased, and laid off bordering Lot No. 7. Reg:4 Dec 1845.
page 222 - 4 May 1844.
John Woodfin to Woodfin Naylor Deed, 19 acres. John Woodfin of Fayette Co., TN/ conveyed to Woodfin Naylor of Bedford county., TN Lot No. 7 in the division of lands belonging to the eextae of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased. Borders Lot No. 6. Reg: 4 Dec 1845.
Page 225 - 20 Nov 1845. Samuel Woodfin and others to Woodfin Naylor
Deed 26 acres. Thomas Swann and Phebe Swann, daughter of Hannah Woodfin, deceased, Thomas Haile and Hannah Hale, daughter of Hannah Woodfin
deceased, John Naylor and Sarah Naylor, daughter of Hannah Woodfin deceased, Samuel Woodfin, W. H. Naylor sold to Woodfin Naylor, their undivided interest in
in the land allotted to Hannah Woodfin deceased, being Lot No. 4 in the division of the land in the estate of Nicholas Woodfin deceased, land in Bedford Co., TN, in District No. 5.
Bounded by G. W. Campbell. Wit: John W. Naylor and John W. Edwards. Reg: 6 Dec 1845.
Page 343 - 20 Nov 1845.Thomas Haile and Hannah Haile to John Naylor. Deed, 17 acres. Thomas Haile and Hannah Haile sold to John Naylor, land in Bedford Co., TN, in District No. 5.
Borders of lands landed estate of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased. The land being Lot No. 6 in the division of landed estate of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased, and allotted to Hannah Haile. Wit: Woodfin Naylor and W. H. Nailor. Reg: 13 Apr 1846. e.
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Page 123 – 24 Nov 1845. Thomas and Phebe Swann (by Attorney) to Jacob Sivley. Bill of Sale. Thomas and Phebe Swann sold to Jacob Sivley, a negro woman Adaline and her three children now in possession of Thomas Haile, the property of Nicholas and Hanna Woodfin, deceased. Wit: William Tucker and Hiram J. Austin. Reg: 15 Feb 1847.
Page 133 – 1 Sep 1845. John Woodfin to Thomas Haile. Bill of Sale. As an heir of the estate of Nicholas Woodfin, late of Bedford County, TN, I am entitled to an undivided interest or childs part, of a negro woman Adeline and her daughter Sally. I have now sold same to Thomas Haile. Reg: 1 Mar 1847.
Page 368 - 10 Sep 1847. Thomas Haile and wife to John Nailor.
Deed, 17 acres. Thomas Haile and his wife Hannah Haile conveyed to John dated 20 Nov 1845 and recorded. Hannah Haile formerly Hannah Woodfin. Land in Bedford Co., in District No. 5.
Bounded by lands of Nicholas Woodfin, deceased. Wit: Woodfin Naylor and W. K. Ransom. Reg: 19 Jan 1848.
Page 369 – 1 Dec 1847. John and Woodfin Naylor to Ellis H. Haile. Deed, 114 acres. John and Woodfin Nayler of Bedford County, TN sold to Ellis H. Haile of Rutherford County, TN, land in Bedford County, it being Lots No. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the division of Nicholas Woodfin deceased. Bounded by Matthew Locke, W. H. Naylor, G. W. Campbel now W. Worke’s land, Jane Statham, James Woods, and Samuel Woodfin. Wit: Issac J. Miller and James D. Naylor.
Reg: 19 Jan 1848.
- Part 1
LEEMON, MISSOURI
On Indian Creek
by K.J.H. Cochran
Leemon is approximately ten miles northeast of Jackson in Cape Girardeau County. The town is three miles east of Highway No. 61 on blacktop County Road J that joins the main highway at Fruitland.
The community lies along the bank of Indian Creek and extends north of Robert Side's General Store located on No. J; the houses, church and the old school all lying within a square, with a circumference of about two miles.
The social life of the town has been centered in the local church and school since the area was settled soon after 1800, and the residents are interested in each other and united in their feelings, in the manner of a large family.
The introduction of the automobile changed the economic conditions of the town. Unfortunately, some of the houses now are vacant, falling into decay, and the small business firms have relocated in more prosperous neighborhoods.
Once Leemon was a busy center of activity, the home of children who later became men and women or prominence in the state and the nation, who often alluded to the important influence the school and the church in Leemon had in their early academic and character-building training. John A. Hope, a prominent attorney in St. Louis, would refer to Indian Creek, as would Edward E. Alexander, and attorney and state senator in Arkansas; Judge J. C. McDonald, probate judge and for 22 years county superintendent of schools, Cape Girardeau County; Jacob Doyle, a well known educator, and Charles C. Oliver, State Representative, who was responsible for the presentation and passage of the Missouri State Flag bill, January 21, 1913; Arthur L. Oliver, a State Senator. 1909; John Oliver, a historian of note, presently residing in Florida, where he has been associated with the University; Burette and Allen Oliver, practicing attorneys in Cape Girardeau, Harry Alexander and Sloan Oliver, who were also attorneys, now de
The name Leemon was given the settlement after the Civil War when Captain Leemon Haile returned from the service and resumed the operation of the post office, general store and sawmill that he had started before the conflict broke. It was not until 1878 that Leemon Haile acquired the deed from his father.
Leemon Haile's family migrated to Missouri from Bedford County, Tennessee in 1849. His father, Thomas Haile, had met and married Hannah Woodfin there in 1827. Hannah had been born near Ashville, North Carolina, 1805, and had moved with her parents to Tennessee in 1810.
The Thomas Hailes came to Missouri with their family, in hopeful expectation of improving their well-being. The farm on Indian Creek was secured through the Jackson land office, and the deed was signed by General Zachary Taylor, then the twelfth president of the United States, soon after the organization of the thirty-first Congress.
A three room log house was erected by the family overlooking Indian Creek, near the spot where three small tributaries join and form the larger stream that flows eastward across the Clay Oliver property, and on the east, in the direction of the river, along the south boundary of the former August Litzelfelner farm, where Indian Creek empties into the Mississippi below Neely's Landing.
There were 11 children in the Haile family; many of them died in infancy. The mother, later called "Granny Haile", outlived all of the children except one son, Dick, a bachelor, who lived at the homestead, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Wheeler, Plano, Texas, where Granny and Dick moved, 1896, when she was 91 years old. She died in 1900 at the age of 94 years, 4 months, 14 days and was buried in Texas.
The house in which she lived at Leemon was sold to the Tony Martin family, whose son, Elmo, became postmaster in Jackson; his death occurred less than two years ago.
Tony Martin had operated the general store in Leemon in the 1930's, purchasing it from, Henry Putz when the later moved back to Pocahontas. The family at that time lived in quarters at the store, but soon purchased the house on the hill.
The old Haile homestead still stands and has recently been sold. During the course of time it has been remodeled, rooms have been added, as have porches, and the house now faces south. Originally the entrance was on the north.
When Leemon Haile married Mary Elizabeth Chambers, September 10, 1857, he took his bride to a new house he had erected within the shadow of the Haile homestead. It was considered a palatial residence at the time, and quarters for the store and post office were included. The house was located on a rise of ground northeast of the hill along Indian Creek.
It was shaded by large maple trees. Many of them remain. One tree was removed July 19, 1966, because it obstructed the front porch and driveway of the house.
"Aunt Lizzie" remained in the home until she was 83, when in failing health, she sold the farm and the home to John T. McNeely, a nephew whose daughters, Mrs. C. A. Poe (St. Louis), Mrs. Ted R. Regenhardt, (Cape Girardeau) still own the property, that has been in the family 117 years. Lizzie Haile, who had no children, went to live at the County Farm, where she died before the year ended. She was fond of relating stories her husband had told her regarding the Civil War when he served as captain of a volunteer militia home guard regiment composed of men from the Indian Creek communities, who endeavored to rid southeast Missouri of bushwhackers, renegade soldiers who plundered the country side and horse thieves. He served during the entire war, enlisting a few months after the conflict began.
After Thomas Haile died the sawmill was purchased by Dave C. McKee who used a large steam engine to run the mill and also to operate a threshing machine and combine. David McKee belonged to one of the early families who had settled in the Indian Creek community. He married Rosilie Query, August, 1885. The couple rode horseback to the Shiloh Church for the ceremony. Rose was the sister of Dr. Charles Query, a successful veterinarian who moved to Jackson and remained in business for over 30 years before his death. Dave McKee assumed the operation and management of the Query farm in Leemon. The original house burned and a new dwelling now has replaced the old McKee homestead. The sawmill long ago disappeared from the bank of Indian Creek.
The general store and post office was moved after Leemon Haile's death to the home of Jacob Doyle. This house is still standing on No. J north of the highway. Clusters of black-eyed susans are growing in profusion near the driveway. Mr. Doyle continued the general store until 1900 when Pinckney Morton moved to Leemon, purchased the old Mizell home and engaged Edward Sides and his son, Charles, carpenters, to build a new general store north of the house.
For many years Bob Yancy delivered the mail to the post office, bringing it from Jackson in a jump-seat buggy. Later M. A. Short (Maurice) brought the mail to the Leemon store. He used a buggy until 1916 when he changed to an automobile, and his route was enlarged from 24 to 38 miles.
Both the Morton home and the store remain along the gravel street in Leemon. The house has fallen into decay. The north room is the original log cabin structure, built when the Indian Creek settlement was established. It has been covered with wood siding. the store was remodeled, the center entrance and front porch relocated on the north side of the building, that has been converted into a residence, and is occupied.
The blacksmith shop built by Lee Kahnert (Jackson) was north of the store. His home, a frame structure of six rooms, was across the road. There is no visible sign of either now. The house burned about 1937 and the new general store of Robert Sides occupies the site.
The blacksmith shops of John Wachter and of Joe Meyer have also disappeared.
John Wachter married Emma Clementz, whose father was a veterinarian in Leemon, and specialized in the treatment of horses. His home was next door to the old Leemon school, the ground having been purchased for a school from the Clementz estate. Both arenow the property of Edwin Kraemer.
The Morton General Store had a long and interesting history. Pinckney Morton remained in charge of the store for many years, selling it to Ben F. Sides, who in turn sold to B. B. McNeely. Charles Morton, John Putz, John McDonald, Charlie Farrow and Tony Martin where other owners of the business.
When the Kahnert home was destroyed by fire, Charlie Farrow purchased the lot and erected a new store, 1938, that has had the following owners since that time, Oscar Ward, Harlen Young, Richard Craft, who operated the store for 3 years and sold it last February to Richard Sides. The store is the only business in Leemon today.
Log schoolhouses were built throughout the area as soon as there were enough children to warrant engaging an instructor. The first log school erected in the Indian Creek community was the Dogwood School. Later the log building on the Daughterty farm was built. This school burned many years ago. No picture of it remains. Two trees grow near the old doorway. The building stood in front of the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDowell at Leemon.
The second school was located on land purchased from the Clementz estate. It was always referred to as "Hog Pen Academy". The term was one of endearment, and two versions for the name have been given; the first, it was thought Mr. Clementz at one time had a hog pen on the lot; the second, that the rival school of Dogwood, tauntingly christened the school, and instead of it provoking the students of Leemon, they adopted the name and it stuck.
The first building was a large room 30 X 40 feet. Jake Doyle was the instructor for many years. Later when it was necessary to add high school classes, a second, smaller room was built. It was not as well constructed, and after the high school students were transferred to Fruitland, the addition was removed. The original school room remained intact until the consolidated school district was organized out of Jackson. Students now attend the Fruitland school, and high school pupils come into Jackson for instruction.
Instructors at Hog Pen were Jake Doyle and his son, George, Lucius Reed, Jim Samuel, who was a barber on Saturday, with a chair in Pinckney Morton's General Store; Iva Seabaugh, William Crites, Maude Kurre, Carol Mercer, Katie Brent and Duke Abernathy. The list is not complete.
Old Charlie carried Ann Oliver and her sister, Helen, to school. Charlie had been trained as a race horse. He grew to know the school children well, and was adopted as a member of the community.
Footnote: Judge James McDowell of Charleston is now Circuit Judge of Missouri.
-from The Jackson Journal, 27 July, 1966.
- Thomas Haile is a representative in the Missouri Legislature 1864-1866. History Of Southeast Missouri by Goodspead, 1888. pg. 327. NOTE: This Thomas Haile is from St. Francois County, Missouri and his bio is in Goodspeed's book, pg 637.
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Abt 1798 - 1867 (69 years)
