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Lockard, Francis Marion
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° 15 September 1855 in Coshocton County, Ohio (USA)
† 18 Februar 1928 in Norton County, Kansas (USA)
wohnhaft: 1880 in Center, Norton County, Kansas (USA)
He was a stock dealer.
wohnhaft: 1900 in Center Township, Norton County, Kansas (USA)
He was the Post Master.
wohnhaft: 1910 in Voltaire, Sherman County, Kansas (USA)
He was a farmer.
wohnhaft: 1920 in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas (USA)
He was a dairy and poultry farmer.
My maternal ancestors immigrated from south England in 1760 and settled in Frederick County, Virginia. My mother's grandfather was born there in 1765. He became a slave owner, but later had conscientious scruples against chattel slavery and in 1810 he attempted to liberate his slaves, but the laws of Virginia compelled persons liberating their slaves to file a bond with the county making themselves financially responsible for the conduct of the persons they had made free even to the payment of their private debts for a certain number of years. This was a very difficult bond to give and he, like many others, failed to give one that was acceptable, so he disposed of his slaves to a good master and, in 1813, accompanied by a brother, emigrated to Coshocton County, Ohio, which was then an unbroken wilderness. On November 6, his son, Wesley, my grandfather, was born in Virginia. He was eleven years old when he came to Ohio with his parents. About the same time, my great grandfather's four brothers emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky. Several members of their families have since distinguished themselves as lawyers, judges, and congressmen. One of them, a cousin of my grandfather represented the Louisville, Kentucky district in congress for several years."
"On February 25, 1838, while a member of congress, he shot and killed Mr Cilly, a congressman from Maine, in a duel. This duel, which is known in history as the Graves and Cilly duel, created great excitement at the time. Public sentiment against dueling had gradually grown in the north since 1804 when the famous duel between Burr and Hamilton had been fought, culminating in a fresh outbreak in public opinion in the Graves-Cilly duel. Public meetings were held and dueling denounced. The press and pulpit took it up and dueling as a mode of settling petty offenses between public men was practically done away with in the northern states. This duel was fought on the Marlborough road to Baltimore, two miles out from Washington, with rifles at 80 yards. Cilly was killed the third shot. Mrs. Thomas Benton was a member of this family and her daughter, Jessie Benton Fremont, was a second cousin of my grandfather.
Wesley Graves was married to Nancy Wright in 1822 in Coshocton County, Ohio. Twelve children were born to them, ten of them grew to manhood and womanhood, six sons and four daughters; four of his sons were in the war, the other two were in California at that time. His youngest sons, John Wesley and Albert live in this county. My mother, Mary Jane Graves, his sixth child was born July 21, 1832.
My paternal ancestors immigrated from County Dougal, Ireland in the year 1800 and settled in Jefferson County, Ohio. My grandfather, Andrew J. Lockard was born in Jefferson County, Ohio December 9, 1803. He was married to Mary Carson, June 17, 1828. She was born in Ireland and moved to the United States in 1820. They settled in Coshocton County, Ohio in 1836. Eight children were born to them, six of them grew to manhood and womanhood, three sons and three daughters. My father, Robert F. Lockard, their fourth child, was born January 14, 1834.
Robert F. Lockard and Mary Jane Graves were married October 29, 1854. Five children were born to them; the writer, their eldest was born September 15, 1855. A biography of the others appears on page 159 of this book (History of Norton County Kansas, by F.M. Lockard). My father was a farmer and by hard work succeeded in buying a small farm in Coshocton County, Ohio, which he traded for an unimproved farm in Stark County, Indiana, in 1860 and he began making arrangements to move to his Indiana land the following year. The war of the rebellion having in the mean time broken out, he decided to go to the war. He enlisted in company G, 80th Ohio volunteers and remained with his regiment until stricken with typhoid fever when he was sent to the hospital at St. Louis where he died December 12, 1863, and was buried in the soldier's cemetery in that city. My father's youngest brother, Alexander Lockard, was a member of the 7th Illinois Cavalry. He was shot by guerillas and killed at Birds Point, Missouri, January 10, 1862. In 1866, my mother moved to the Indiana farm and remained there four years, but on account of failing health, she returned to Ohio and was taken care of by her father, brother, and sisters until she died, December 15, 1871. The writer remained there with relatives until April, 1873, then went to Mahaska County, Iowa to live with an uncle and in June 1874, came to Norton County, Kansas and has lived here continuously ever since.
I taught Neighborville school (now Calvert) in the winters of 1874 and 1875 and worked on a farm and herded cattle the intervening summers. In 1876 I began carrying United States mail, which I continued until 1880, then in company with William Simpson went into the stock business. I spent most of the summer on 1880 on the plains catching wild horses. We succeeded in capturing and taming about fifty head. A description of the mode of catching them would be too long for this article. We made a trip to the Gunnison country in Colorado in 1881 and spent that summer railroad-building and prospecting. In February 1882, Simpson and myself formed a partnership with Ernest Broquet and went to the Indian Territory and purchased ponies of the Indians. In 1883, we continued the pony business in southern Kansas and the Indian Territory. In the spring of 1884 in partnership with G.H. Griffin, we went to Old Mexico and purchased 1,000 head of ponies which we imported into Kansas. We traveled extensively over three states of Old Mexico on horse back, but made our purchases at the city of Agualeguas in the state of Nuevo Leon. In September of that year, I was married. (See page 150 [History of Norton Kansas]) I then engaged in the real estate business in November which I continued until 1890. I then went into the mercantile business which I continued until May 1893, when, on account of the financial depression and unfortunate speculation, I was compelled to make an assignment.
I have taken a lively interest in politics ever since I became a voter; was a candidate for sheriff in 1883, but failed to receive the nomination. I was nominated and elected to the state senate in 1888 and served four years. I was a candidate for congress in 1892 and received the heart support of Norton, Decatur, Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sherman and Thomas counties, but failed to get the nomination. I have served as chairman of the republican county for several terms and have at different times been a member of the state and congressional committees. I was married to Mrs. Mary Isabelle Stainbrook, of Wyoming, April 16, 1894.
By
Francis Marion Lockard
Norton, Kansas
August 25, 1894
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