David Thompson (Close Up) RALSTON
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Additional RALSTON Surnames in HATCH Cemetery
RALSTON, Elmer UlyssesRALSTON, Mona NeomiaRALSTON, Mona Neomia (Close Up)RALSTON, Elmer Ulysses (Close Up)RALSTON, Archie ARALSTON, Archie A (Close Up)RALSTON, David ThompsonRALSTON, Mary Ann "Polly"RALSTON, Mary Ann "Polly" (Close Up)RALSTON, Infant DaughterRALSTON, Joseph PorterRALSTON, Luvicy JaneRALSTON, Joseph and Luvicy Family (Photo)RALSTON, Infant DaughterRALSTON, EthelRALSTON, Edward ERALSTON, Edward E (Close Up)RALSTON, MalindaRALSTON, Ulysses "Grant"RALSTON, Dorothy Lee "Dorie"RALSTON, Dorothy Lee "Dorie" (Close Up)RALSTON, Ulysses "Grant" (Close Up)RALSTON, Ulysses "Grant" (Photo)RALSTON, Dorothy Lee "Dorie" (Photo)RALSTON, Malinda (Photo)
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Submitted: 3/18/14 • Approved: 3/18/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R29530-G0-S3
June 10, 1818 - May 3, 1890
Taken from FOOTPRINTS OF BOURBON COUNTY FAMILIES 1991
DAVID THOMPSON RALSTON FAMILY
"David Thompson Ralston was born 10 June 1818 in Lincoln County, Tennessee and reared in Fayette County. At the age of 18 yrs. He went to Greene County, Missouri and was employed at farming and carpenter work near Springfield. He married Mary Ann (Polly) Guttry on 18 March 1840. Polly was born 3 Nov. 1823 in TN, one of seven children of William and Sarah Guttry of S.C. and VA.
"The Ralston family went to Kansas territory in a covered wagon drawn by an ox team, arriving January 12, 1855. They were preceded by Polly's brothers, John and James Guttry, the first settlers in Marion Township of Bourbon County. David staked his claim to 320 acres, six miles southwest of present-day Uniontown, where he resided until his death.
Polly died 15 November 1857, and she was one of the first settlers buried in Hatch Cemetery. David remarried in 1859 to Malinda Rhoton, daughter of Elisha and Caroline M. Rhoton.
"David's oldest son, William S. was a private in the 10th Regiment, Co., E, Kansas Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He joined at Mound City, Kansas in 1861 and died of disease at Newtonia, MO. He is buried in the Springfield National Cemetery. David T. visited the Wilson Creek Battlefield celebration near Springfield in 1883.
"David T. *wrote his son Daniel in Oregon in 1889 and said "my grandfather was from Ireland and settled in Nashville when it was a little Indian fort. He raised seven boys." David joined the Masonic fraternity in 1864. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It was organized and held in his home until the Ozark schoolhouse was built. A church was built later in 1883 in Rockford Valley. David T. died on the Ralston homestead on 3 May 1890 and he lied between wives Polly and Malinda in Hatch Cemetery. Malinda was born 11 March 1833 and died 24 November 1913. An early biography of David T. states he had 16 children. The first seven were born in Missouri: Sarah Ann (Porter) 1840-1881, William S. 1842-1863, Daniel W. 1845-1904, Joseph P. 1847-1926, Mary Frances (Benjamin F. Mason) 1849-1946, Margaret (George Henton, 2nd J.M. Nichols) 1851-1945, Ella (Nancy)(W.H. Nichols) 1853-1934. (And infant daughter buried with Polly.) Children of the second marriage were Elisha, died in infancy, Edward E. 1864-1879, Ulysses Grant 1865-1944, John T. born 1867, Elmer born 1869, and May (David A. Drake) 1873-1948.
"Many descendants of both marriages live in Bourbon County today."
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ANDREAS HISTORY OF KANSAS
1883 Volume 2
"D. T. Ralston, farmer, section 8, is a native of Lincoln County, Tenn, born in 1818, June 10, and was raised in Fayette County. When eighteen years of age he went to Greene County, Mo., where he was employed at farming and working at the carpenter's trade in the neighborhood of Springfield. In the spring of 1840 he married Miss Guttry, and moved to Kansas in 1855, whether John and James Guttry had preceded them, being the first settlers in Marion Township. On the 12th of January, 1855, he arrived, and, as was his custom, he staked out his claim from hill to hill, taking in a choice piece of 320 acres, retaining the most of it now. during his time he had some trouble to keep the squatters from his claim, and in 1856, he relates, as they were taking the body of one of his children to the grave, they were met by a company of Pro-slavery men, who demanded his horse of him, and after following them to the place of burial, possessed themselves of the horse, promising to return it, which they did afterward. In 1855, he had but few neighbors, being McCarty, Fly, Mitchell and Coyle. In 1857, he lost his wife. He remained a widower until 1859, when he married again to Miss Rhoton, of Bourbon County. He has improved his farm and now raises stock and grain on 300 acres. His family consisted of 16 children, nine of whom are living. In 1856, Mr. Ralston was elected Justice of the Peace, but his commission was made out in another name, so he never served. He has belonged to the Masonic Fraternity since 1864, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church."
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Contributed on 3/18/14 by evychristensen
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