1831 - 1840

1831 MATHEW AND UNKNOWN'S SON JESSE E BORN IN TENNESSEE

1832 GAVE APPLICATION FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION, IN SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA

CA 1834 BIG MAC MARRIED SARAH ANN THOMAS POOL

THE FOLLOWING DATA IS EXTRACTED FROM REMINISCENT HISTORY OF THE OZARK REGION, PUB. GOODSPEED BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO 1894

JOHN THOMAS POOL

EXCERPT : THIS SUCCESSFUL FARMER AND STOCK DEALER OF HOWELL COUNTY, MISSOURI, OWES HIS NATIVITY TO HUMPHREYS COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WHERE HE FIRST SAW THE LIGHT IN 1833. HIS PARENTS, JOEL AND SARAH ANN (THOMAS) POOL, WERE WORTHY PEOPLE, AND THE FATHER DIED IN HUMPREYS COUNTY, TENNESSEE, BEFORE THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH WAS BORN. WHEN HE WAS ABOUT ONE YEAR OLD, HE WAS BROUGHT BY HIS MOTHER TO HOWELL COUNTY, MISSOURI, AFTER HER MARRIAGE WITH MATTHEW A. MCCAMMON, AND IN THIS SECTION THE REST OF THEIR LIVES WERE SPENT.

1837 MATHEW AND SARAH ANN'S DAUGHTER MARTHA JANE BORN IN MISSOURI

1840 MATHEW AND SARAH ANN'S SON STEPHEN N. BORN IN MISSOURI