Joseph was a young man of sixteen, or possibly seventeen when his father Daniel's family moved from their North Carolina home and eventually settled in what is now northern Gasconade County, Missouri. It is most likely that he was some two years younger than his older brother James, that his name does not appear as frequently in the early records of the Territory and Gasconade County. However, he would have beenone of the four Criders that was registered as a qualified voter on the Gasconade Co. voting list that was prepared in 1828. Joseph was also named as the second child of his father Daniel in his father's willthat was proven in Gasconade County, Missouri in 11842. Instead of receiving land, as did his older brother James, Joseph received a cash bequest.
There is no ready explanation of how Joseph first met Priscilla. Shelived with her parents some fifty or sixty miles to the east in Franklin County, Missouri. However, there is every probability that as a wagoner and frequent traveller betwween his home and St. Louis, he somehow made the acquaintance of the Reed family that lived about thirty miles west of St. Louis and just north of Pacific, Missouri. The county records of Franklin County, Missouri show that Joseph was married to Priscilla Reed in Franklin County on 14 September 1826.
After their marriage, Joseph and Priscilla first settled in Third Creek Township of Gasconade County. They were shown there and living somewhere along Crider Creek when the first census of Gasconade County was taken in 1830. Other of Joseph and Priscilla's children may have been born in Third Creek Township, but it appears that the majority of the children were born after Joseph and Priscilla relocated to the south on the Dry Fork of the Bourbeuse River in southern Gasconade County.
It is not know what motivated Joseph to move to the area of the Dry Fork Creek in the southern portion of Gasconade County. His younger brother Daniel was soon to marry one of the Reed sisters, Elizabeth and Josephs reasons for settling in the area of the Dry Fork may have beentied to that. Joseph and Priscilla made application and payment foran eight acre tract, described as E. 11/2 of the N.WW. Qr. of Sec. 29, Twsp. 41, R. 6 W. This land purchase transaction was recorded on land certificate number 2971; its date being given as 21 December 1831. This land was located on the north side of the Dry Fork Creek and was bound on the north by a smaller stream that was called 'Greedy Creek', because of its tendency for sudden rises and quick overflow following a heavy rain. The tract of land purchased by Joseph then had some of the characteristics of an island as it was borderd by waterways on two ends which may have led to the tract eventually becoming known as the Island Field.
Joseph and Priscilla lived in a cabin along Dry Creek until at least 1838 when Priscilla's parents John and Druscilla Reed purchased a forty acre tract of land that adjoined the Island Field on the north and built a cabin there. On 29 May 1838, Joseph purchased land from the Federal Land Office described as the N.E. Qr. of the N.E. Qr. of Sec. 30, Twsp. 41, R 6 W. The date of the Reed purchase was 21 September 1838 and this seems to be the approximate time that John Reed and his wife relocated from Franklin County to the land in Gasconade County thatwould be their home for the rest of their lives. Joseph's land in Section 30 was patented 12 December 1841. At that time he was married to Margaret (Hendrix) Drubin. There is some indication that Joseph may have made the trip west to the California gold fields during the early 1850's (bet. 1852 - 1856). In Gasconade Co., MO. Deed Book K, pp.60-61, Joseph conveyed the SW 14 of the NE 1/4 of Sect. 30, Twp. 41 North to James Stamp. (ref: Crider History, p. 322) Joseph and Margaretlived on the Island Field tract of land until 1856. All but one of Joseph's sons aligned themselves in some capacity for the preservation of the Union during the Civil War, as did three of his son-in-laws.
After disposing of their lands along the Dry Fork Creek, Joseph and Margaret moved to the north of the present day site of Bland, Missouri in Third Creek Township until about 1870. At that time they relocatedto Webster County. Upon their arrival in Webster County, they acquired a forty acre tract in Union Township that is described in the records as S.E. Qtr. of the S.E. Qtr. of Sec 28, Twsp. 32, R. 17 W. This land is believed to be located just to the east of present U.S. Interstate 44 and west of the town of Radar, near the area where Interstate 44 crosses from Laclede County to Webster County. It is believed thatthey spent the remainder of their lives on this land. A photograph of Joseph taken around the time of his migration to Webster County indicates that at the age of seventy, he was a 'well preserved man'. It is believed that upon his death, his wife Margaret had him buried in aplot on the farm of her brother Samuel Hendrix and his wife, but there is no direct proff of where he actually is buried. According to tradition, when Margaret's brother Samuel Hendrix died in 1860 in Webster County, he was buried in a private plot - most likely on his old farm located in Sec. 2, R. 18 W.
There is no ready explanation of how Joseph first met Priscilla. Shelived with her parents some fifty or sixty miles to the east in Franklin County, Missouri. However, there is every probability that as a wagoner and frequent traveller betwween his home and St. Louis, he somehow made the acquaintance of the Reed family that lived about thirty miles west of St. Louis and just north of Pacific, Missouri. The county records of Franklin County, Missouri show that Joseph was married to Priscilla Reed in Franklin County on 14 September 1826.
After their marriage, Joseph and Priscilla first settled in Third Creek Township of Gasconade County. They were shown there and living somewhere along Crider Creek when the first census of Gasconade County was taken in 1830. Other of Joseph and Priscilla's children may have been born in Third Creek Township, but it appears that the majority of the children were born after Joseph and Priscilla relocated to the south on the Dry Fork of the Bourbeuse River in southern Gasconade County.
It is not know what motivated Joseph to move to the area of the Dry Fork Creek in the southern portion of Gasconade County. His younger brother Daniel was soon to marry one of the Reed sisters, Elizabeth and Josephs reasons for settling in the area of the Dry Fork may have beentied to that. Joseph and Priscilla made application and payment foran eight acre tract, described as E. 11/2 of the N.WW. Qr. of Sec. 29, Twsp. 41, R. 6 W. This land purchase transaction was recorded on land certificate number 2971; its date being given as 21 December 1831. This land was located on the north side of the Dry Fork Creek and was bound on the north by a smaller stream that was called 'Greedy Creek', because of its tendency for sudden rises and quick overflow following a heavy rain. The tract of land purchased by Joseph then had some of the characteristics of an island as it was borderd by waterways on two ends which may have led to the tract eventually becoming known as the Island Field.
Joseph and Priscilla lived in a cabin along Dry Creek until at least 1838 when Priscilla's parents John and Druscilla Reed purchased a forty acre tract of land that adjoined the Island Field on the north and built a cabin there. On 29 May 1838, Joseph purchased land from the Federal Land Office described as the N.E. Qr. of the N.E. Qr. of Sec. 30, Twsp. 41, R 6 W. The date of the Reed purchase was 21 September 1838 and this seems to be the approximate time that John Reed and his wife relocated from Franklin County to the land in Gasconade County thatwould be their home for the rest of their lives. Joseph's land in Section 30 was patented 12 December 1841. At that time he was married to Margaret (Hendrix) Drubin. There is some indication that Joseph may have made the trip west to the California gold fields during the early 1850's (bet. 1852 - 1856). In Gasconade Co., MO. Deed Book K, pp.60-61, Joseph conveyed the SW 14 of the NE 1/4 of Sect. 30, Twp. 41 North to James Stamp. (ref: Crider History, p. 322) Joseph and Margaretlived on the Island Field tract of land until 1856. All but one of Joseph's sons aligned themselves in some capacity for the preservation of the Union during the Civil War, as did three of his son-in-laws.
After disposing of their lands along the Dry Fork Creek, Joseph and Margaret moved to the north of the present day site of Bland, Missouri in Third Creek Township until about 1870. At that time they relocatedto Webster County. Upon their arrival in Webster County, they acquired a forty acre tract in Union Township that is described in the records as S.E. Qtr. of the S.E. Qtr. of Sec 28, Twsp. 32, R. 17 W. This land is believed to be located just to the east of present U.S. Interstate 44 and west of the town of Radar, near the area where Interstate 44 crosses from Laclede County to Webster County. It is believed thatthey spent the remainder of their lives on this land. A photograph of Joseph taken around the time of his migration to Webster County indicates that at the age of seventy, he was a 'well preserved man'. It is believed that upon his death, his wife Margaret had him buried in aplot on the farm of her brother Samuel Hendrix and his wife, but there is no direct proff of where he actually is buried. According to tradition, when Margaret's brother Samuel Hendrix died in 1860 in Webster County, he was buried in a private plot - most likely on his old farm located in Sec. 2, R. 18 W.
Joseph was a young man of sixteen, or possibly seventeen when his father Daniel's family moved from their North Carolina home and eventually settled in what is now northern Gasconade County, Missouri. It is most likely that he was some two years younger than his older brother James, that his name does not appear as frequently in the early records of the Territory and Gasconade County. However, he would have beenone of the four Criders that was registered as a qualified voter on the Gasconade Co. voting list that was prepared in 1828. Joseph was also named as the second child of his father Daniel in his father's willthat was proven in Gasconade County, Missouri in 11842. Instead of receiving land, as did his older brother James, Joseph received a cash bequest.
There is no ready explanation of how Joseph first met Priscilla. Shelived with her parents some fifty or sixty miles to the east in Franklin County, Missouri. However, there is every probability that as a wagoner and frequent traveller betwween his home and St. Louis, he somehow made the acquaintance of the Reed family that lived about thirty miles west of St. Louis and just north of Pacific, Missouri. The county records of Franklin County, Missouri show that Joseph was married to Priscilla Reed in Franklin County on 14 September 1826.
After their marriage, Joseph and Priscilla first settled in Third Creek Township of Gasconade County. They were shown there and living somewhere along Crider Creek when the first census of Gasconade County was taken in 1830. Other of Joseph and Priscilla's children may have been born in Third Creek Township, but it appears that the majority of the children were born after Joseph and Priscilla relocated to the south on the Dry Fork of the Bourbeuse River in southern Gasconade County.
It is not know what motivated Joseph to move to the area of the Dry Fork Creek in the southern portion of Gasconade County. His younger brother Daniel was soon to marry one of the Reed sisters, Elizabeth and Josephs reasons for settling in the area of the Dry Fork may have beentied to that. Joseph and Priscilla made application and payment foran eight acre tract, described as E. 11/2 of the N.WW. Qr. of Sec. 29, Twsp. 41, R. 6 W. This land purchase transaction was recorded on land certificate number 2971; its date being given as 21 December 1831. This land was located on the north side of the Dry Fork Creek and was bound on the north by a smaller stream that was called 'Greedy Creek', because of its tendency for sudden rises and quick overflow following a heavy rain. The tract of land purchased by Joseph then had some of the characteristics of an island as it was borderd by waterways on two ends which may have led to the tract eventually becoming known as the Island Field.
Joseph and Priscilla lived in a cabin along Dry Creek until at least 1838 when Priscilla's parents John and Druscilla Reed purchased a forty acre tract of land that adjoined the Island Field on the north and built a cabin there. On 29 May 1838, Joseph purchased land from the Federal Land Office described as the N.E. Qr. of the N.E. Qr. of Sec. 30, Twsp. 41, R 6 W. The date of the Reed purchase was 21 September 1838 and this seems to be the approximate time that John Reed and his wife relocated from Franklin County to the land in Gasconade County thatwould be their home for the rest of their lives. Joseph's land in Section 30 was patented 12 December 1841. At that time he was married to Margaret (Hendrix) Drubin. There is some indication that Joseph may have made the trip west to the California gold fields during the early 1850's (bet. 1852 - 1856). In Gasconade Co., MO. Deed Book K, pp.60-61, Joseph conveyed the SW 14 of the NE 1/4 of Sect. 30, Twp. 41 North to James Stamp. (ref: Crider History, p. 322) Joseph and Margaretlived on the Island Field tract of land until 1856. All but one of Joseph's sons aligned themselves in some capacity for the preservation of the Union during the Civil War, as did three of his son-in-laws.
After disposing of their lands along the Dry Fork Creek, Joseph and Margaret moved to the north of the present day site of Bland, Missouri in Third Creek Township until about 1870. At that time they relocatedto Webster County. Upon their arrival in Webster County, they acquired a forty acre tract in Union Township that is described in the records as S.E. Qtr. of the S.E. Qtr. of Sec 28, Twsp. 32, R. 17 W. This land is believed to be located just to the east of present U.S. Interstate 44 and west of the town of Radar, near the area where Interstate 44 crosses from Laclede County to Webster County. It is believed thatthey spent the remainder of their lives on this land. A photograph of Joseph taken around the time of his migration to Webster County indicates that at the age of seventy, he was a 'well preserved man'. It is believed that upon his death, his wife Margaret had him buried in aplot on the farm of her brother Samuel Hendrix and his wife, but there is no direct proff of where he actually is buried. According to tradition, when Margaret's brother Samuel Hendrix died in 1860 in Webster County, he was buried in a private plot - most likely on his old farm located in Sec. 2, R. 18 W.
There is no ready explanation of how Joseph first met Priscilla. Shelived with her parents some fifty or sixty miles to the east in Franklin County, Missouri. However, there is every probability that as a wagoner and frequent traveller betwween his home and St. Louis, he somehow made the acquaintance of the Reed family that lived about thirty miles west of St. Louis and just north of Pacific, Missouri. The county records of Franklin County, Missouri show that Joseph was married to Priscilla Reed in Franklin County on 14 September 1826.
After their marriage, Joseph and Priscilla first settled in Third Creek Township of Gasconade County. They were shown there and living somewhere along Crider Creek when the first census of Gasconade County was taken in 1830. Other of Joseph and Priscilla's children may have been born in Third Creek Township, but it appears that the majority of the children were born after Joseph and Priscilla relocated to the south on the Dry Fork of the Bourbeuse River in southern Gasconade County.
It is not know what motivated Joseph to move to the area of the Dry Fork Creek in the southern portion of Gasconade County. His younger brother Daniel was soon to marry one of the Reed sisters, Elizabeth and Josephs reasons for settling in the area of the Dry Fork may have beentied to that. Joseph and Priscilla made application and payment foran eight acre tract, described as E. 11/2 of the N.WW. Qr. of Sec. 29, Twsp. 41, R. 6 W. This land purchase transaction was recorded on land certificate number 2971; its date being given as 21 December 1831. This land was located on the north side of the Dry Fork Creek and was bound on the north by a smaller stream that was called 'Greedy Creek', because of its tendency for sudden rises and quick overflow following a heavy rain. The tract of land purchased by Joseph then had some of the characteristics of an island as it was borderd by waterways on two ends which may have led to the tract eventually becoming known as the Island Field.
Joseph and Priscilla lived in a cabin along Dry Creek until at least 1838 when Priscilla's parents John and Druscilla Reed purchased a forty acre tract of land that adjoined the Island Field on the north and built a cabin there. On 29 May 1838, Joseph purchased land from the Federal Land Office described as the N.E. Qr. of the N.E. Qr. of Sec. 30, Twsp. 41, R 6 W. The date of the Reed purchase was 21 September 1838 and this seems to be the approximate time that John Reed and his wife relocated from Franklin County to the land in Gasconade County thatwould be their home for the rest of their lives. Joseph's land in Section 30 was patented 12 December 1841. At that time he was married to Margaret (Hendrix) Drubin. There is some indication that Joseph may have made the trip west to the California gold fields during the early 1850's (bet. 1852 - 1856). In Gasconade Co., MO. Deed Book K, pp.60-61, Joseph conveyed the SW 14 of the NE 1/4 of Sect. 30, Twp. 41 North to James Stamp. (ref: Crider History, p. 322) Joseph and Margaretlived on the Island Field tract of land until 1856. All but one of Joseph's sons aligned themselves in some capacity for the preservation of the Union during the Civil War, as did three of his son-in-laws.
After disposing of their lands along the Dry Fork Creek, Joseph and Margaret moved to the north of the present day site of Bland, Missouri in Third Creek Township until about 1870. At that time they relocatedto Webster County. Upon their arrival in Webster County, they acquired a forty acre tract in Union Township that is described in the records as S.E. Qtr. of the S.E. Qtr. of Sec 28, Twsp. 32, R. 17 W. This land is believed to be located just to the east of present U.S. Interstate 44 and west of the town of Radar, near the area where Interstate 44 crosses from Laclede County to Webster County. It is believed thatthey spent the remainder of their lives on this land. A photograph of Joseph taken around the time of his migration to Webster County indicates that at the age of seventy, he was a 'well preserved man'. It is believed that upon his death, his wife Margaret had him buried in aplot on the farm of her brother Samuel Hendrix and his wife, but there is no direct proff of where he actually is buried. According to tradition, when Margaret's brother Samuel Hendrix died in 1860 in Webster County, he was buried in a private plot - most likely on his old farm located in Sec. 2, R. 18 W.
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