William was the eighth of Jacob Jeoffrey & Caroline Matilda (Poindexter) Hilsabeck's nine children. The Hilsabecks had moved to Wright Co around 1858 and bought their first farm in Rail, where William was born on May 22, 1866.
William was named in honor of General William Tucumseh Sherman whose famous march to the sea was the primary means of demoralizing the South and winning the Civil War (General Sherman had been named in honor of the great Shawnee chief, Tucumseh). William Hilsabeck's father had served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, and his mother had done her part to help the cause.
William grew up on the family farm at Dawson and attended high school in Mt. Grove. He met and married Cora Azelean Newton. Cora, born on May 2, 1873, was the daughter of James & Celia Elizabeth (Easley) Newton, and was almost seven years younger than William.
Their children were: Cecil Verney, born December 2, 1894; twin sons, born & died Mar. 2, 1897; Vola May, May 19, 1898; Jessie Marie, Sept. 26, 1900; Willeta Newton, June 18, 1904; James Edward "Buster," Jan. 4, 1907; Marion Dixon "Dick," Aug. 3, 1911; & Vernice Azelea, Aug. 13, 1913.
During his career he had various jobs as a teacher, pharmacist, and part owner of Weatherman and Hilsabeck, a "fancy" dry goods and notion store. During the sixteen years before his death on November 6, 1936, he served as Justice of Peace & the County Clerk of Mountain Grove.
His sister, Martha Bell, who lived in Ozark Co, MO, wrote to him in 1887. She was quite a bit older than him, almost 14 years, & was married to Malichi Bell. She wanted to see if there was a market for chairs that her husband made. William wasn't quite 21 years old when he replied to her. His marital status is unknown.
Mountain Grove, MO
March 10, 1887
"Dear Brother & Sister,
I take pleasure in answering your kind & welcome letter. We are all well at present times are very hard. Corn is very scarce, grass is coming so that stock can live very well. Corn is not planted yet. It is so dry that we cannot plow. We have 12 acres broke that we will plant this week. We are out of corn & will have to work off the grass this summers.
Now about those chairs. I have tried to engage them to our neighbors, but failed. They all want them but have not the means to buy. I went to Mountain Grove twice but failed to see B.W. Young. The furniture many times are awful hard and money scarce. H.C. Miller pays cash for everything now.
Martha, I was about to forget to tell you about Julina's girl born April 2. Isabel has a girl too. I believe that is all the new kin. Jake is not married yet. While I was plowing last Monday a fine yearling deer ran before my team within 40 yds of me. . . . Come to see us, haven't much to eat, but we can kill a deer. Write soon. Respt Wm Hilsabeck"
The above letter is in the possession of Dorothy (Bell) White, the g-granddaughter of Malichi & Martha.
William, age 70 years, 5 months, & 14 days, died at 2:00 a.m. in Mt. Grove on November 6, 1936. The cause of death is recorded as "Arteriosclerosis" on his death record.
Cora died in Kansas City almost six years later from bronchial pneumonia.
Information about William & some members of his family can be found in "History And Families Wright County Missouri," 150 Anniversary 1841 - 1991, by the Wright County Historical Society, published in 1993 by Turner Publishing Company.
William was named in honor of General William Tucumseh Sherman whose famous march to the sea was the primary means of demoralizing the South and winning the Civil War (General Sherman had been named in honor of the great Shawnee chief, Tucumseh). William Hilsabeck's father had served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, and his mother had done her part to help the cause.
William grew up on the family farm at Dawson and attended high school in Mt. Grove. He met and married Cora Azelean Newton. Cora, born on May 2, 1873, was the daughter of James & Celia Elizabeth (Easley) Newton, and was almost seven years younger than William.
Their children were: Cecil Verney, born December 2, 1894; twin sons, born & died Mar. 2, 1897; Vola May, May 19, 1898; Jessie Marie, Sept. 26, 1900; Willeta Newton, June 18, 1904; James Edward "Buster," Jan. 4, 1907; Marion Dixon "Dick," Aug. 3, 1911; & Vernice Azelea, Aug. 13, 1913.
During his career he had various jobs as a teacher, pharmacist, and part owner of Weatherman and Hilsabeck, a "fancy" dry goods and notion store. During the sixteen years before his death on November 6, 1936, he served as Justice of Peace & the County Clerk of Mountain Grove.
His sister, Martha Bell, who lived in Ozark Co, MO, wrote to him in 1887. She was quite a bit older than him, almost 14 years, & was married to Malichi Bell. She wanted to see if there was a market for chairs that her husband made. William wasn't quite 21 years old when he replied to her. His marital status is unknown.
Mountain Grove, MO
March 10, 1887
"Dear Brother & Sister,
I take pleasure in answering your kind & welcome letter. We are all well at present times are very hard. Corn is very scarce, grass is coming so that stock can live very well. Corn is not planted yet. It is so dry that we cannot plow. We have 12 acres broke that we will plant this week. We are out of corn & will have to work off the grass this summers.
Now about those chairs. I have tried to engage them to our neighbors, but failed. They all want them but have not the means to buy. I went to Mountain Grove twice but failed to see B.W. Young. The furniture many times are awful hard and money scarce. H.C. Miller pays cash for everything now.
Martha, I was about to forget to tell you about Julina's girl born April 2. Isabel has a girl too. I believe that is all the new kin. Jake is not married yet. While I was plowing last Monday a fine yearling deer ran before my team within 40 yds of me. . . . Come to see us, haven't much to eat, but we can kill a deer. Write soon. Respt Wm Hilsabeck"
The above letter is in the possession of Dorothy (Bell) White, the g-granddaughter of Malichi & Martha.
William, age 70 years, 5 months, & 14 days, died at 2:00 a.m. in Mt. Grove on November 6, 1936. The cause of death is recorded as "Arteriosclerosis" on his death record.
Cora died in Kansas City almost six years later from bronchial pneumonia.
Information about William & some members of his family can be found in "History And Families Wright County Missouri," 150 Anniversary 1841 - 1991, by the Wright County Historical Society, published in 1993 by Turner Publishing Company.
William was the eighth of Jacob Jeoffrey & Caroline Matilda (Poindexter) Hilsabeck's nine children. The Hilsabecks had moved to Wright Co around 1858 and bought their first farm in Rail, where William was born on May 22, 1866.
William was named in honor of General William Tucumseh Sherman whose famous march to the sea was the primary means of demoralizing the South and winning the Civil War (General Sherman had been named in honor of the great Shawnee chief, Tucumseh). William Hilsabeck's father had served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, and his mother had done her part to help the cause.
William grew up on the family farm at Dawson and attended high school in Mt. Grove. He met and married Cora Azelean Newton. Cora, born on May 2, 1873, was the daughter of James & Celia Elizabeth (Easley) Newton, and was almost seven years younger than William.
Their children were: Cecil Verney, born December 2, 1894; twin sons, born & died Mar. 2, 1897; Vola May, May 19, 1898; Jessie Marie, Sept. 26, 1900; Willeta Newton, June 18, 1904; James Edward "Buster," Jan. 4, 1907; Marion Dixon "Dick," Aug. 3, 1911; & Vernice Azelea, Aug. 13, 1913.
During his career he had various jobs as a teacher, pharmacist, and part owner of Weatherman and Hilsabeck, a "fancy" dry goods and notion store. During the sixteen years before his death on November 6, 1936, he served as Justice of Peace & the County Clerk of Mountain Grove.
His sister, Martha Bell, who lived in Ozark Co, MO, wrote to him in 1887. She was quite a bit older than him, almost 14 years, & was married to Malichi Bell. She wanted to see if there was a market for chairs that her husband made. William wasn't quite 21 years old when he replied to her. His marital status is unknown.
Mountain Grove, MO
March 10, 1887
"Dear Brother & Sister,
I take pleasure in answering your kind & welcome letter. We are all well at present times are very hard. Corn is very scarce, grass is coming so that stock can live very well. Corn is not planted yet. It is so dry that we cannot plow. We have 12 acres broke that we will plant this week. We are out of corn & will have to work off the grass this summers.
Now about those chairs. I have tried to engage them to our neighbors, but failed. They all want them but have not the means to buy. I went to Mountain Grove twice but failed to see B.W. Young. The furniture many times are awful hard and money scarce. H.C. Miller pays cash for everything now.
Martha, I was about to forget to tell you about Julina's girl born April 2. Isabel has a girl too. I believe that is all the new kin. Jake is not married yet. While I was plowing last Monday a fine yearling deer ran before my team within 40 yds of me. . . . Come to see us, haven't much to eat, but we can kill a deer. Write soon. Respt Wm Hilsabeck"
The above letter is in the possession of Dorothy (Bell) White, the g-granddaughter of Malichi & Martha.
William, age 70 years, 5 months, & 14 days, died at 2:00 a.m. in Mt. Grove on November 6, 1936. The cause of death is recorded as "Arteriosclerosis" on his death record.
Cora died in Kansas City almost six years later from bronchial pneumonia.
Information about William & some members of his family can be found in "History And Families Wright County Missouri," 150 Anniversary 1841 - 1991, by the Wright County Historical Society, published in 1993 by Turner Publishing Company.
William was named in honor of General William Tucumseh Sherman whose famous march to the sea was the primary means of demoralizing the South and winning the Civil War (General Sherman had been named in honor of the great Shawnee chief, Tucumseh). William Hilsabeck's father had served on the side of the Union during the Civil War, and his mother had done her part to help the cause.
William grew up on the family farm at Dawson and attended high school in Mt. Grove. He met and married Cora Azelean Newton. Cora, born on May 2, 1873, was the daughter of James & Celia Elizabeth (Easley) Newton, and was almost seven years younger than William.
Their children were: Cecil Verney, born December 2, 1894; twin sons, born & died Mar. 2, 1897; Vola May, May 19, 1898; Jessie Marie, Sept. 26, 1900; Willeta Newton, June 18, 1904; James Edward "Buster," Jan. 4, 1907; Marion Dixon "Dick," Aug. 3, 1911; & Vernice Azelea, Aug. 13, 1913.
During his career he had various jobs as a teacher, pharmacist, and part owner of Weatherman and Hilsabeck, a "fancy" dry goods and notion store. During the sixteen years before his death on November 6, 1936, he served as Justice of Peace & the County Clerk of Mountain Grove.
His sister, Martha Bell, who lived in Ozark Co, MO, wrote to him in 1887. She was quite a bit older than him, almost 14 years, & was married to Malichi Bell. She wanted to see if there was a market for chairs that her husband made. William wasn't quite 21 years old when he replied to her. His marital status is unknown.
Mountain Grove, MO
March 10, 1887
"Dear Brother & Sister,
I take pleasure in answering your kind & welcome letter. We are all well at present times are very hard. Corn is very scarce, grass is coming so that stock can live very well. Corn is not planted yet. It is so dry that we cannot plow. We have 12 acres broke that we will plant this week. We are out of corn & will have to work off the grass this summers.
Now about those chairs. I have tried to engage them to our neighbors, but failed. They all want them but have not the means to buy. I went to Mountain Grove twice but failed to see B.W. Young. The furniture many times are awful hard and money scarce. H.C. Miller pays cash for everything now.
Martha, I was about to forget to tell you about Julina's girl born April 2. Isabel has a girl too. I believe that is all the new kin. Jake is not married yet. While I was plowing last Monday a fine yearling deer ran before my team within 40 yds of me. . . . Come to see us, haven't much to eat, but we can kill a deer. Write soon. Respt Wm Hilsabeck"
The above letter is in the possession of Dorothy (Bell) White, the g-granddaughter of Malichi & Martha.
William, age 70 years, 5 months, & 14 days, died at 2:00 a.m. in Mt. Grove on November 6, 1936. The cause of death is recorded as "Arteriosclerosis" on his death record.
Cora died in Kansas City almost six years later from bronchial pneumonia.
Information about William & some members of his family can be found in "History And Families Wright County Missouri," 150 Anniversary 1841 - 1991, by the Wright County Historical Society, published in 1993 by Turner Publishing Company.
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