History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri . Connecticut, in1763. He was one of the seven children born to his parents, and was thegrandfather of Colonel Boyd Dudley. Samuel Dudley enlisted for servicein the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, when he was but 13years old. He had a great fondness for the sea, and after his six years ofservice for the country, wanted to become a sailor. But his mother in-duced him to go to West Virginia, and locate on a farm, and there he mar-ried and reared a family. One of his sons was Alpheus H. Dudley. Alpheus H. Dudley was born in Marion Count
History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri . Connecticut, in1763. He was one of the seven children born to his parents, and was thegrandfather of Colonel Boyd Dudley. Samuel Dudley enlisted for servicein the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, when he was but 13years old. He had a great fondness for the sea, and after his six years ofservice for the country, wanted to become a sailor. But his mother in-duced him to go to West Virginia, and locate on a farm, and there he mar-ried and reared a family. One of his sons was Alpheus H. Dudley. Alpheus H. Dudley was born in Marion County, W. Va., Jan. 31,1827. He entered the mercantile business at Reevesville in West Virginia,but in 1866 he came to Missouri, making the trip by steamboat down theOhio River to Cincinnati, thence to Chillicothe, and from there by wagonacross the country to Daviess County. He bought 120 acres of land nearBancroft in Lincoln Township, and became a successful farmer, but livedonly a short time after settling in his new home. He died on April 4, 1868,. THt NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBUARY ASnOR, LExNOX AND TILUliN FOLNUATIONS B L HISTORY OF DAVIESS AND GENTRY COUNTIES 345 and his remains were buried in the Hill Cemetery. In 1855 Alpheus married Martha McDougal. She was born in Marion County, , March 22, 1835, the daughter of John F. McDougal. Mr. McDougallived near Bancroft in Daviess County, for many years, and later lived atGillman, Harrison County, where he died at the age of 96 years. His son,Henry C. McDougal, was a judge of the probate court of Daviess County,in the seventies. To the union of Alpheus H. and Martha (McDougal Dud-ley the following children were born: Paul, died in infancy; Boyd, the sub-ject of this sketch; May, living in Carthage; and Fannie, the widow of McCluskey, now living with her daughter, Mrs, E. D. Hart of Califor-nia. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Dudley married Dr. R. L. Greenand to this union two children were born: Oscar, now living
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