TEEGARDEN, AARON .
Aaron Teegarden is a Virginian. He was born in Mason county, (now West Virginia), on June 10, 1816. His father,
Job Teegarden, moved to the state of Ohio about the year 1826, and settled in Knox county. Here our subject received
the principal part of his scholastic training, and after attaining his majority, came to Ray county, Missouri.
He was just beginning life for himself, and was without means and a “stranger among strangers.” Nothing else offering
to be done, he hired out as a laborer, and engaged in chopping wood and making rails, and doing anything that he
could find to do in order to make a living. Out of the wages of his labor he saved money enough in about a year
to enter forty acres of land, and soon after he bought another tract of the same size. To this farm he continued
to add other purchases from time to time, as his means would allow, until at the age of twenty-six years, he was
the owner of a good of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land. In the month of March, 1845, Mr. Teegarden
was married to Miss Nancy Cummings, daughter of Moses Cummings, Esq., of Ray county. They became the parents of
seven children, all of whom are now living, and five of them, two sons and three daughters, are now married. Mrs.
Teegarden died in the year 1874, and Mr. Teegarden afterwards married Mrs. Philanda Shanks, a lady whose husband
had been killed in the civil war. Mr. Teegarden has always taken much interest in politics, and great care and
pains to keep himself informed respecting events in the political world. He is the owner of a fine, fertile farm
of six hundred and twenty acres of bottom land, in a high state of cultivation and well improved. It is situated
in sections three, nine and ten, township fifty-three, range twenty-eight. Though he began life as a poor, friendless
youth, he is now the possessor of a competency, and highly esteemed by all who know him.
Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Aaron Teegarden b. 1816.
History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.721 Submitted by: Michelle Kennedy Byrd |
