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About David Nelson Lapsley
farmer St. Francisville, Mo.
Jenkins family book; being a partial record of the descendants of David Jenkins and genealogical notes of families intermarried with them BY ROBERT E.JENKINS OF THE CHICAGO BAR A. D. 1904 pg. 43-47
Margaret Jane Jenkins David Nelson Lapsley.
Margaret Jane Jenkins, one of the twin daughters of Robert and Elizabeth (Rambo) Jenkins, married David Nelson Lapsley, at the Jenkins' homestead near Alexandria, Missouri, March 2, 1865.
Children.
- 1 Mary Elizabeth Lapsley, born November 23, 1885.
- 2 Robert McKee Lapsley, born January 22, 1870, now a practicing physician in Keokuk, Iowa.
Both born in Clark County, Missouri.
David Nelson Lapsley was Circuit Clerk of Clark County, Missouri, for a number of years, also County Judge, a graduate of Washington College, Pennsylvania, a lawyer and a successful farmer, living on his farm near Revere, in said county. The ancestry of David Nelson Lapsley is shown in the following statement written by him, February 12, 1892 :
'My great-great-grandfather, Joseph Lapsley (then spelled L'Aspley) descended from French
Huguenots, immigrated from North of Ireland to this country early in the last century. He settled in Virginia, and two of his brothers in Philadel phia, Pa. His son John (my grandfather) was born in Virginia, September 29th, 1753. His wife, Mary Armstrong, was born March 17th, 1760. They were married December 22nd, 1778. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he and his wife were Presbyterians.
My father, John A. Lapsley, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, September 5th, 1783,
and died December 13th, 1859. My mother, Mary Wear McKee, was born in same county November 20th, 1783, and died October 21st, 1859. They were married August loth, 1805. My father was a Lieutenant Captain in Col. Richard M. Johnson's (the vice president) regiment of Kentucky volunteers. Was in the battle of Tippecanoe, and in several other engagements.
He was a Presbyterian, and was a strong temperance man when nearly everybody used liquors.
He paid about fifty thousand dollars security debts in his lifetime, and died in moderate circumstances. He had twelve children of whom I was the youngest.
My grandfather had two sons in the ministry Joseph B. and Robert A. and four grandsons,
James L. Lapsley, D. D., John Lapsley Yantiss, D. D., John L. McKee, D. D. and Joseph Lapsley who died at the commencement of his ministry. He had eight great-grandsons in the ministry, William J. son of John P. Lapsley, three sons of James W. Lapsley, two sons of J. L. McKee and one son of J. L. Yantis.
My father's and mother's families both moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1793. My father
and family moved from Kentucky to Clark Co., Mo. in 1836.
My grandfather, William McKee, was born in the North of Ireland in 1724, and died October 8th, 1816. His father and grandfather moved to Virginia about 1745, where he was married to Miriam Wear. He afterwards married a Mrs. Daviess who was the mother of Joseph Hamilton Daviess, a brilliant lawyer killed at the battle of Tippecanoe ; counties in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri are named after this Daviess. William McKee w^as a colonel in the Revolutionary war was a member of the Virg:inia convention that adopted the constitution of the United States, was sheriff and member of the legislature for over twenty years. He had one son (Samuel) in Congress several years. His grandson, Wm. McKee Dunn, represented the Madison district Indiana several terms in Congress and was afterwards appointed by President Lincoln, Judge Advocate General, and he served through several administrations. His grandson, William R. McKee, was Colonel of the Second Kentucky Volunteer in the Mexican War, Col. Henry Clay, jr., was Lieuten- ant Colonel in the same regiment, and both were killed at the battle of Buena Vista. Another grand- son, Samuel McKee, was Colonel of a regiment in the Federal Army, and was killed at Stone River. Another grandson (my brother William) was colonel of an Alabama regiment, C. S. A Several of his descendants have been lawyers and preachers of considerable ability. A large majority of them have been and are Presbyterians."
The father of David Nelson Lapsley, owned, and at the time of his death, Hved upon a large farm on the Des Moines river about four miles above St. Francisville. He was a man of sterling character
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David Nelson Lapsley's Timeline
| 1830 |
April 16, 1830
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Woodford county, Kentucky
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| 1865 |
March 2, 1865
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Alexandria, Clark, Mo.
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| 1870 |
January 22, 1870
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Clark Co., Missouri
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| 1920 |
April 11, 1920
Age 89
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Clark County, Missouri
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Kahoka Cemetery Kahoka Clark County Missouri
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