Biographical Sketch of Stephen H. Sullivan, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Stephen H. Sullivan, a native of Franklin County, Mo., was born in
September, 1849, and is the eldest of the four children of Wylie and
Eliza (Teas) Sullivan.  He was reared on a farm and received a good
common school education.  He helped clean the brush and timber from
the site of Sullivan, and dug the first grave in Buffalo graveyard,
near Sullivan, while a prisoner of war, for the body of Samuel King,
who was a paroled prisoner from the Union army.  The Union soldiers
arrested Mr. Sullivan, and soon afterward arrested and killed Mr.
King, then compelled our subject, with pointed guns, to dig his 
friend and neighbor's grave by himself, this being the first grave 
in the present public cemetery of Sullivan.  The following day, by a
petition from friends, Mr. Sullivan was released by the soldiers. 
He was very young, and never entered the army, but was a Southern
sympathizer, and aided that cause.  After Price's raid he went to 
the Rocky Mountains, and was in various parts of the range, fighting
the Indians, digging gold and hunting for about ten years, when he
returned to Missouri.  In 1875 he married Martha E., daughter of
Jamison Bandy, and to this union two children have been born: Nida E.
and Stephen H., Jr.  After marriage Mr. Sullivan removed to McLennan
County, Tex., where he engaged in farming, railroad contracting and
stock dealing until 1882, when he returned to Franklin County, Mo.,
where he is now comfortably situated on a farm of 100 acres.  He has
served as deputy sheriff, and has held other positions.  He is a mem-
ber of the Masonic Lodge of Sullivan, is a Democrat, and is honored 
and respected by all who know him.

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