The Tribune, Maryville, Missouri - Old Settlers' Edition, Thursday, March 9, 1905

FIRST MARRIED

E.A. Dalrymple's Father and Mother Chauncy Dalrymple and Lydia Heddy, First in County.

SON IS STILL LIVING HERE

Tells of the Old Road That Ran From St Joseph Through Savannah and Maryville Into Iowa

E.A. Dalrymple, whose parents, Chauncy Dalrymple and Lydia Headdy, were the first couple married in Nodaway county after it was organized, was born in Nodaway township in sight of where that county [sic, township] corners with Polk and Union.

"My father took up his land before the section lines were laid," says Mr Dalrymple, "or a least before we had any exact knowledge of where they ran. When an accurate survey was finally made it was found that father had land in four fourties. He had settled right on the line of two sections.

"Afterwards he sold out and came down into Polk township, acquiring considerable land. He got out on the prairie this time, but the first time he was in the edge of the timber, as were all the first settlers. We had no fences, I remember, until after I was big enough to help split rails.

"We were on the old road to Iowa. It ran from St Joseph to Savannah, then to Maryville and up the divide between the One Hundred and Two and the Nodaway rivers to the state line.

"It crossed the state line into Iowa at a point about where H.E. Bradley's farm now shows on the map and a short distance on the other side divided, one road going to Clarinda, and the other to old Hawleyville. There was some travel down the other side of the White Cloud [River], but most of it came through Maryville.

"One incident of my boyhood that I recollect distinctly was when my brother and myself found an immense elk horn. We had been out after the cattle and ran onto this in the grass two or three miles from home. We had been used to finding deer horns, but this was a new one to us.

"Well, we carried it home - and it was quite a load, too, and father immediately said it was an elk's horn. He cut some of the prongs off and used it for a gun rack and I think it was still about the house when he died.

"There had been no elk in this country for a great many years previous to even that early date, I think, and the horn had probably been out there in the grass for a long time before we found them."

Today is the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs E.A. Dalrymple, who live east of Pickering. The wedding took place in Nodaway County and the couple has made their home in the county since their marriage. Plans for an all-day celebration and basket dinner which were under way were given up because of the bad roads.

There are ten children living who were born to the union: David Dalrymple, Pickering; Mrs Thomas Wilder, Arkansas; C.H. Dalrymple, Topeka, Kan; Willis Dalrymple, Pickering; Mrs John Harrison, McFall, Mo; Mrs Everett Wagner, Pickering; William Dalrymple, Pickering; J.B. Dalrymple, Maryville; Mark Dalrymple, Pickering, and Mrs James May, Pickering.

Mr Dalrymple is 68 years old and Mrs Dalrymple is 65. Both are in fairly good health.

Mrs Martha Dalrymple, 90 years of age and a long time resident of the Pickering vicinity, died at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in Pickering. She had been ill twelve days.

She was born Jun 11, 1850, at Bloomingdale, Ohio. When she was 11 years old she came to Nodaway county and made her home with Mr and Mrs David Workman. August 23, 1866 she was married to Ezra A. Dalrymple. She was a member of the Methodist Church.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs Lydia Margaret Wilder, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs John Harrison, McFall, Mo.; Mrs Everett Wagner, Denver, Colo. and Mrs James May, Anaheim, Calif. Six sons, David T. Dalrymple, Pickering; Chancey Harrison Dalrymple, Topeka, Kas.; Willis Allen Dalrymple, Hemet, Calif.; William A. Dalrymple and J.B. Dalrymple, of Maryville, and Mark Dalrymple, Grant City; thirty-three grandchildren, fifty great-grandchildren, and five great great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Pickering with Rev Kenneth Bressler, assisted by Rev L.B. Lamb, officiating. Burial will be in White Oak cemetery.