Notes for William L. FRENCH

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Notes for William L. FRENCH

Mr Brown was married May 15 1883 at Mexico to Miss Bettie Davis French born in Callaway County a daughter of William L and Eliza Jane Bullard French the former a native of Kentucky whose father was Pinckney French and mother Deborah Clark French and
the mother descended from a Virginia family her father being Richard Bullard and her mother Caroline Amelia Conyers Bullard To Mr and Mrs Brown have been born six children of whom the second Floyd F and fifth Frances died in infancy The four living are
Mary aged sixteen years Linn F aged eleven years Rose aged eight years all attending school and Paul M aged three years. [Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri: a compendium of history and ...
edited by Howard Louis Conard, p. 401]
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Name: William French
Birth Year: abt 1835
Age in 1870: 35
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Loutre, Audrain, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
William French 35
Elizabeth French 30
Elizabeth French 9
Susan French 7
Anna French 4
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"Mr William L French Loutre Audrain county Missouri says I have been breeding them for a number of years and consider them the sheep for this part of the country Their size weight and quality of fleece early maturity thriftiness &c put them ahead in my
opinion of any other breed I have crossed them with tho common sheep the Cotswold and the South Down The cross on tho common ewes was remarkable a great many of the lambs look as though they might bo full blood The cross on the Cotswolds and South
Downs improved tho produce of the former by earlier maturity and by thickness weight and fineness of fleece and of the latter by increased size and weight of fleece I have always found ready salo for my lambs at good prices." [1866 Report of the
Secretary of Agriculture
By United States. Dept. of Agriculture, p. 339]
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http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/slavecases.html
"I WILLIAM L. FRENCH, a loyal citizen and resident of Audrain County, MO, claim compensation for my slave WILLIAM PEMBERTON, who enlisted 31 Oct., 1864. Said slave was given to me in 1852 by my father, PINKNEY FRENCH, who died Sept., 1860." Witnesses:
I. EDMOND TOWNLY (colored), JERRY TOWNLY (colored), JOHN RAMANS, JOSEPH L. CRAIG. 17 Nov., 1866.
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bbrooks/Bullard/bullardcemmo.htm
Bullard Family Cemetery
Located in Township 49N, Range7W, Section 1 or Section 2
Callaway County, Missouri
French, Eliza Jane Bullard- Dec 23 1838- May 11 1872- aged 33 yrs 4 mos 18ds-wife of William L. French and daughter of R. & C. Bullard- married Sept 20 1855
Children of William French and Eliza Jane Bullard
French, Eliza W.- Sept 30 1871- Aug 13 1872- aged 10m 13d
French, Infant son- Aug 20 1859- Sept 3 1859-aged 4 days
French, Sallie L. April 26 1858- Jan 9 1860- aged 1y 8m 14d
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