Historic Photos - Bacon Family

By Ann Chrissos

Andrew Jackson Bacon (1843-1926) was the patriarch of the Bacon family.  He married Sarah Elizabeth Johnson (1856-1936).  They settled in a house on Wild Horse Creek Road west of Antioch Baptist Church in Monarch, Missouri.  There they raised their eight children:   Andrew, Esther, Annette, Henry William, Anna Elizabeth, Jesse, Charles and Robert.  Esther and her husband, a Goehri, had two children:  Dolly and Bud.  Annette and her husband, Bob Ferguson had a son, Fritz.  Jesse married Linda Arnold and they named their only son Arnold.  Henry William (1878-1972) and Elizabeth Schaeg were married by a Justice of the Peace on May 9, 1907 in Pond, Missouri.  They had nine children:  Leslie (b. 1907), Ethel (b. 1909), Nora (b. 1912), Jackson (b. 1914), Paul (b. 1916), Della (b. 1919), Vencil (v. 1922), Evelyn (b. 1926) and Raymond (b.1929).  Henry William worked for farmers in Gumbo and Chesterfield, Missouri and at a dairy on Kerhs Mill and Clayton Roads.  As a farm laborer he earned one dollar a day.  Henry’s wife, Elizabeth Schaeg (1887-1971) grew up in Orrville, Missouri and attended St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Highway 109.  Henry and Elizabeth are buried in the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery.  Their daughter Della Verna was born at home in Ballwin, Missouri on November 2, 1919.  She attended Antioch Baptist Church and Sunday school with her large family and went to the one room schools in Bonhomme and Orrville.  Della married Harry August Kiehl on August 12, 1936.  They had three children:  Irma (b. 1939), who married Edward Wendall; Earl E. (b. 1939), who married Patricia Pearson; and Dolores Mae (b. 1941), who married James Shadow.  The Bacon family, not only lived and served the Chesterfield community, but also the country as illustrated in the photos below.  For more information on Harry Kiehl go to the website:  http://www.chesterfield.mo.us/historical-commission.html

Sources

Kiehl, Della Bacon contributed the photos to CHLPC, via Marcella Mertz on December 12, 2000.

Wendall, Irma Kiehl was interviewed by Marcella Mertz in March, 2004.