Jarboe Album

“My grandfather, Joseph Martin Jarboe was born March 7, 1831 near Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, the son of John Thomas and Martina (Thomas) Jarboe. When Joseph was 21 years old, his father offered him a young Negro slave or a horse for his birthday. He chose the horse and rode west to St. Louis, Missouri, where he learned the blacksmith trade.

Later Joseph rode on to Hannibal and then to Old Clinton, later called North Fork, in Monroe County, Missouri. Soon after he arrived, someone told him that a pretty girl lived with her widowed mother across the field to the west. Joseph said “By gawd, that’s where I’m going!” and he did! On January 17, 1855, he married the pretty girl, Lewellen Worland, and they lived on that farm with her mother and where Joseph opened a blacksmith shop. They had eight children and one of whom was my father, James Adelbert; I was the ninth daughter of James Adelbert and Gertrude Lee (Bell) Jarboe, born on Thanksgiving Day, 1916 just west of North Fork.

During the Civil war, Joseph Jarboe joined Col. Joseph Porter’s company in Monroe County and fought at Newark, Kirksville and on Yellow Creek in Chariton county. The company was defeated at Browns Springs in Callaway County on July 27, 1863 and disbanded. Joseph’s Civil War cape is displayed in the courthouse in Paris, Mo.

Lewellen Worland’s father, Barnaby Worland, had come from Scott County, Kentucky in 1839 and bought land from James Gough in Monroe County, Sec. 32, Township 56, near old Clinton on December 2, 1839. His wife was Catherine Deering.”

Family biography written by Alice Josephine (Jarboe) Gander and submitted by Joan Goodwin.

Brothers Joseph Martin Jarboe and Henry Hilton Harrison Jarboe. They fought on opposite sides of the Civil War and didn’t have much to do with each other afterwards.

James Albert Jarboe, son of Joseph and Lewellen (Worland) Jarboe. Photo was taken in 1890 when he was 21 years old.

The family of James and Lewellen (Worland) Jarboe. Sitting in front row, L-R: James Adelbert, Joseph Martin, Elizabeth Lewellen (Worland), and Eugene Jarboe. Back row, L-R: Agnes Cecilia (Jarboe) Reid, Sarah Josephine “Josie” (Jarboe) Lasley and Amanda Theresa Jarboe.

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Wedding photo of James Adelbert Jarboe and Gertrude Lee Bell; taken on March 1, 1897.

The Jarboe family - summer of 1899. Left side of post: Mary Loretta Reid, Agnes Cecelia (Jarboe) Reid, Amanda Theresa Jarboe, and Roland Reid. Between posts: front - Joseph Martin Jarboe and Lewellen (Worland) Jarboe; back - Eugene Worland Jarboe holding Bernadette Jarboe, James Adelbert Jarboe, Gertrude Lee (Bell) Jarboe. Right side of post: front - John Richard Lasley, Nell Agnes Lasley, Lillian Mary Lasley, Joseph Glenn Lasley; back - James Ivy Lasley, Ellen Teresa (Tessy) Lasley, Sarah Josephine (Jarboe) Lasley, and William Lasley

The farm house in this photo was the Worland homestead, built around 1840 by Barnaby and Catherine (Deering) Worland. It was built near an area known as Old Clinton and Jonesburg, now known as North Fork. The Hamilton/Worland/Jarboe cemetery is near the site of this house, which burned down in 1971.

On the left side of the post you see Agnes Cecelia (Jarboe) Reid and two of her children, the oldest Mary Loretta and the youngest Roland. Her middle three children Homer, Guy and Agnes Dee all died of diphtheria in February 1889.

The family of Josie Jarboe Lasley on the right side of the pole would lose the youngest three children, John, Lillian, and Joseph, not long after this photo was taken. It is believed they died of tuberculosis over the next few years and the efforts to save their health caused Josie to move farther and farther away from Missouri.

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Wedding photo of Alice Josephine Jarboe and Clifford Robert Gander; taken on October 13, 1937.