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Note: 1. Was a member of the Baptist Church. 2. Was a merchant at Bynumville and Prairie Hill, MO. The following is a listing of his various jobs and community positions as described from notes read in the Salisbury Press-Spectator. Until his start in the general merchantile business he was a farmer and stock raiser. 1885, clerk and assessor of Bee Branch township. 1885, sunday school assistant superintendent. 1887, mail carrier. 1888, deputy sheriff. 1890, firm of Brockman & Bartholomew in Bynumville, MO (general merchants). 1891, opened a general store (mercantile business) in Prairie Hill, MO; he and his cousin, Frank Krager, may have been partners. 1902, delegate to the Judicial Convention. trustee of the incorporated village of Prairie Hill. 3. After his death, Gertrude operated the store until 1920 when she moved to Salisbury, MO. 4. Was a member of the following fraternal organizations: Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Modern Woodsman of America. 5. Stephen died as a result of a lung abscess according to his obituary and several notes which appeared in the Press-Spectator from June, 1903 to January, 1904. SOURCES INCLUDE: 1897 Chariton County, MO Atlas. 1900 Chariton co., MO census, Wayland twp. 1910 Chariton co., MO census [ED 21.46.77]. Marriage Record, Book 3, p. 259, Chariton county, MO. Port. Biog. Rec. Chariton County, MO, p. 119. Salisbury Press-Spectator, 11 Apr 1890. Salisbury Press-Spectator, 8 Jan 1904. Dille, George Earl, Josephine Kaye Dille and Earl Kaye Dille. 1964. The Dille Family, Three Hundred Years in America, 1664-1964. Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO. .
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