Genealogy of Thomas E Cady - Person Sheet
Genealogy of Thomas E Cady - Person Sheet
NameJohn Rooker 
Birth2 Mar 1785, Probably Alabama
Death20 Dec 1850, Howard Co. Mo.
FatherWm Rooker
MotherNancy Saffell
Misc. Notes
From HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Columbus, Mo.
John Rooker stayed in Tenn till after he married and went to Mo. in 1816 They settled 2 miles south east of Glasgow in 1819. Here he lived till he died in 1850. After settling to Howard Co. he commenced a trade between Old Chariton and New Orleans, building flat boats and buying bacon and tobacco and floating his produce down the river to New Orleans where he sold both the boats and the cargo and then took a steamship back to St.Louis and then walking the rest of the miles home. During the next twenty one years he made many meny such trips. He was the first to run flat boats down the Missouri River.
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He purcaseda farm 2 miles south east of Glasgow in 1819 and lived there till he died in 1850.
John Rooker stayed in Tenn till after he married and went to Mo. in 1816 They settled 2 miles south east of Glasgow in 1819. Here he lived till he died in 1850. After settling to Howard Co. he commenced a trade between Old Chariton and New Orleans, building flat boats and buying bacon and tobacco and floating his produce down the river to New Orleans where he sold both the boats and the cargo and then took a steamship back to St.Louis and then walking the rest of the miles home. During the next twenty one years he made many meny such trips. He was the first to run flat boats down the Missouri River.
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He purcaseda farm 2 miles south east of Glasgow in 1819 and lived there till he died in 1850.