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Descendants of Marcus Cole

Generation No. 1

1. MARCUS² COLE (MARK¹) was born 1795 in Rowan county, North Carolina, and died February 01, 1854 in Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri. He married DARCUS L HALL January 18, 1813 in Smith county, Tennesee, daughter of WILLIAM HALL and SARA HICKS. She was born 1799 in East Tennessee, and died September 01, 1881 in Danville, Montgomery county Missouri.

Notes for MARCUS COLE:
Since this seems to be the first of the Missouri Cole line, I decided to leave the note about Mt. Horeb and Bryant cemeteries here. Mt Horeb Chruch is considered an historical monument and are under protection of the Mt Horeb Historical Society. Mt Horeb Church was organized in the home of Samuel Boone, a nephew of Daniel Boone and a cousin of James Callaway, for whom Callaway County was named. The present building (built in 1897) is the third building.The first was a small log building then a larger one was built. The first frame building was just twice the size of present building. The roof collapsed on it during a heavy snow fall, so they built the present building on just half of the old foundation.

The Church is now known as the Mt. Horeb Historical Society, Inc. they have service each first Sunday of the summer months(March if good weather, April, May, June, July, Aug.,Sept., Oct,Nov and Dec also if weather is good) at 2:00 p.m. The annual homecoming is the first Sunday of August, with a business meeting at 10:30 a.m. followed by services at 11:00 a.m. and a old fashion basket dinner under the shade trees at 12:30 with services again at 2:00 p.m.

The Church is also on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Mt Horeb Baptist Church
George C. Cole-minister 1852 -1854
Dr. Emmett Cole- minister
Stephen Harrison Cole-deacon 1881
Harrison Cole-minister
Jeff Cole-deacon 1911

Directions to the church and cemeteries. Travel interstate 70 in the area of Montgomery City, MO east until you reach the Mineola exit ( Danville exit). Go through Mineola and go over two bridges. Turn left past the bridge on Graveyard Hill road. Go a few miles up hill on a gravel road and keep looking to your left. At the top you will see on the left, the first cemetery, which is Bryant Cemetery. Travel on down the road for 5 more miles until the road forks to Mt. horeb Road. You will see a small white clapboard church with a graveyard across the road. This is Mt. Horeb Baptist Church and Mt. Horeb Cemetery.

He is listed as being born in east Tennessee or North Carolina. East Tennessee was part of the territory of North Carolina before becoming a state so both statements are accurate.

He was the first hatter in Montgomery county. Best known for "Boss" Logans famous hat. Made of muskrat and raccoon, the brim was 6 inches wide and the crown was 18 inches high. It would hold a half-bushel.

Dorcus Hall is buried in Mt Horeb Cemetery. Note that her name is spelled as Darcus Cole on the headstone. Marcus may possibly be his middle name.

He is buried near Americus, Missouri on a farm owned by W.B. Lauer. It is Sec. 35 T47N, R6N. His granddaughter Mary A Naughton and son James A are also buried there.

Mark Cole served in the war of 1812 and the following is from records in the Washington Archives:
Mark Cole WO 17,350 WC 10701 where he got bounty land, served under Captain Hodges company in
the Tennessee Militia. Entered service January 28, 1814, discharged May 18, 1814. Served again from September 28, 1814 to May 4, 1815. His wife Dorcus received a pension on pension number 10701.

[From the Montgomery County Leader, New Florence, MO, starts Dec. 23, 1892,

Pioneer Montgomery
Early History of Our County
As Seen by a "Globe Democrat" Reporter.
The following is taken from last Sunday's Globe-Democrat, which was written from
Minneola under the date of Dec. 15.
This little village, nestling in a pretty basin among the Loutre Creek hills, in
the western part of Montgomery county, is historic ground. The mineral spring,
famed for its medical virtue, is the old "Loutre Lick" of pioneer notoriety.
Here Daniel Boone resorted for the use of the healing waters, which he declared
cured him of ailments. It was a favorite locality with Thomas H. Benton and in
Congress, as early as in 1824, it was adverted to sarcastically by Henry Clay as
"The Bethesda mentioned by the honorable Senator from Missouri." The site of the
village and a considerable tract adjoining 160 was originally granted by the
Spanish authorities in 1799 to Col. Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone. In 1815
Col. Boone sold the land to Maj. Isaac Van Bibber whose father was killed at the
battle of Point Pleasant, Va., in 1774, and who was raised to manhood in the
family of Daniel Boone. In 1821, Maj. Van Bibber made repeated attempts to
manufacture salt from the slightly saline water.
Montgomery is one of the oldest settled counties in Missouri. The early French
explorers were here certainly as early as 1722. They named the beautiful stream
which flows through the western part of the county, the Loutre (Otter in
English) which name it still bears. The island at its mouth, opposite to the
town of Hermann, formed by the union of the Loutre and the Missouri, is yet
called Loutre Island. In 1800 there were at least 12 white families living on
this island. In 1812 a fort was built here for the protection of the settlers,
then reasonably numerous on the Island and in the vicinity. By the order of Gov.
Clark, this fort, which was a good strong block house, and stood about midway of
the island, was called Fort Clemson, for its builder, Capt. James Clemson, of
the United States Dragoons. This was the same Capt. Clemson I may remark, who
was subsequently the second of the unfortunate young Charles Lucas in his duel
with Col. Benton.

December 30, 1892, issue
Between the years 1806-8, a dozen settlers in the St. Charles district had been
killed by the Indians. In the fall of 1806 a party of settlers from Femme Osage
settlement -- in what is now Warren County, led by Wm. T. Cole, of Loutre
Island, went to the Loutre Prairie to hunt elk, then numerous in the country.
Somewhere near the present site of High Hill they met some hostile Indians, who
drove them back to the settlements. Nobody was killed on this occasion, but the
incident warned the whites what they might expect if they should be over
venturesome and incautious.
In the summer of the next year (1807) occurred a memorable and ill-fated
expedition. A band of Sacs and Pottawatomies, came down, stole seven horses
belonging to the settlers on Loutre Island, and started northward with them.
Five islanders set out in pursuit. These were Wm. T. and Stephen Cole, James
Patton, John Gooch and James Murdock, all experienced frontiersmen, hardy and
brave. On the evening of the second day out the party came in sight of the
Indians on the Salt River prairie, in what is now the southern part of Ralls
County. Moving forward a mile or so, and darkness coming on they went into camp
on the bank of Spencer Creek, intending to open friendly negotiations with the
Indians the following morning.
In this design, however, they were anticipated by the savages, who, well armed
with rifles and other weapons, attacked them furiously in the night. Wm. T. Cole
(commonly called Temple Cole), Patton and Gooch were killed in their blankets at
the first fire. Murdock slipped under the bank of the creek near by, leaving
Stephen Cole alone to contend the enemy. Two Indians closed upon him. One of
them stabbed him in the back from behind, the other encountered him in front.
Cole, a very powerful man and a good fighter wrested the knife from the hand of
the Indian in his front and plunged it into his assailant and was about to
finish him, when all of the other Indians threw themselves upon him, and having
to contend against too great odds, he cut his way through them and saved himself
by flight, favored, of course, by the darkness. And after an arduous journey of
three days and nights on foot for he had been compelled to leave his horse in
the hands of the Indians -- he succeeded in reaching the island and Fort
Clemson. Murdock did not return to the island for several days.
Organizing another party, Cole returned to the scene of the fight and buried his
dead comrades, all of whom had been scalped and otherwise mutilated. The body of
the Indians he had killed was also found. Some years afterward the skulls of the
murdered men were found and thereafter the locality was known as "Skull Lick."
There is no name better known in the history of the Boone's Lick country than
that of Capt. Stephen Cole. It was he who, in 1812, built Cole's Fort, the first
county seat of Howard County, and it was for him Cole County was named. He was
killed by the Indians on the plains in 1824 while engaged in the Santa Fe trade.
(continued next week)

More About MARCUS COLE:
Burial: Americus, Missouri on fomer W.A. Craig farm
Census: 1830, Montgomery county, Missouri
Comment 1: 1819, Montgomery county, Missouri tax list
Emigration: 1817, Loutre Fork Township Missouri, Lisenberry Creek
Military service: January 28, 1814, War of 1812
Property: December 31, 1818, Montgomery county, Missouri

Notes for DARCUS L HALL:
Listed in the 1870 Missouri census as 71 years of age and her name is spelled Darcus. Residing with her were Robert Thomas, Marcus Lafayette, and Elizabeth. She died of heart disease.

She described Mark and 3 or 4 years older than herself, born in North Carolina, a rather small man, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes. She states that they were married January 18, 1813 by Thomas Durham, and that her name before marriage was Dorcas Hall. She said they were married at her father's residence in the county of Smith, state of Tennessee.

More About DARCUS L HALL:
Burial: Aft. September 02, 1881, Mt Horeb Cemetery, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri
Census: 1870, Montgomery county, Missouri

Children of MARCUS COLE and DARCUS HALL are:

2.	i.	JERUSHA ANN³ COLE, b. December 18, 1816, Smith county, Tennessee; d. January 30, 1889, Prairie Fork.
3.	ii.	STEPHEN HARRISON COLE, b. May 20, 1819, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. April 10, 1894, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri.
4.	iii.	WILLIAM CARROLL COLE, b. September 21, 1821, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. October 04, 1889, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri.
5.	iv.	JOHN W COLE, b. October 09, 1823, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. March 09, 1907, Readsville, Callaway county, Missouri.
6.	v.	HENRY W COLE, b. December 04, 1825, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. February 11, 1908, Danville, Montgomery county, Missouri.
7.	vi.	MARY MATILDA COLE, b. January 11, 1828, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. December 21, 1906, Bethlehem, Montgomery county, Missouri.
8.	vii.	DAVID D COLE, b. January 02, 1830, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. August 04, 1905, Callaway county, Missouri.
	viii.	ELIZABETH S COLE, b. 1832, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. January 23, 1899, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri.

Notes for ELIZABETH S COLE:
Obituary from Mineola News.

Miss Elizabeth Cole after a short illness at the home of her brother Fay Cole, north of Mineola, age 66 years. Member of the Mt Horeb Baptist church for 50 years. Buried in old Mt Horeb cemetery. Died of pneumonia. She was visiting her brother, Lafayette Cole, was taken sick and never able to return home.

More About ELIZABETH S COLE:
Burial: Mt Horeb Cemetery, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri
Census: 1870, Montgomery county, Missouri
Religion: Mt Horeb Baptist Church

ix.

JAMES A COLE, b. September 15, 1834, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. December 12, 1860, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri.

More About JAMES A COLE:
Burial: Americus, Missouri on fomer W.A. Craig farm
Census: 1860, Montgomery county, Missouri

SARAH E COLE, b. September 15, 1834, Mineola, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. March 07, 1882; m. JOHN HENRY MORROW, December 15, 1863; b. August 13, 1822; d. June 15, 1902.

More About SARAH E COLE:
Burial: Mt Horeb cemetery, Montgomery county, Missouri

More About JOHN HENRY MORROW:
Burial: Mt Horeb cemetery, Montgomery county, Missouri

xi.

NANCY JANE COLE, b. 1837, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri.

More About NANCY JANE COLE:
Burial: before 1876

9.	xii.		ROBERT THOMAS COLE, b. July 29, 1839, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. January 05, 1913, Loutre Valley, Montgomery county, Missouri.
10.	xiii.		MARCUS LAFAYETTE FAY COLE, b. August 15, 1841, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri; d. January 10, 1908, Lisenberry Creek, Montgomery county, Missouri.

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