Joel H. Buckallew, native of Clay county, born near Middlebury,
Harrison township, November 21, 1833, was brought up on the farm in
Lewis township, where he acquired a meager education in the log-cabin
schools of that time, On the 19th day of December, 1854, he married
Miss Isabel Cooprider, of Middlebury, who was born October 9, 1835;
resided in Lewis township until the 4th day of January. 1862, when he
enlisted in the service of the government, returning home after the close
of the war—July 19, i865. In 1866 he engaged in merchandising at
Middlebury for the period of about four years. In the fall of 1878 he
moved to Missouri, having traded his Middlebury property for a farm
near Butler, Bates county, where he still resides. The. Buckallew and
Cooprider families were among the hardiest and best of the very early
pioneers of the south end of the county.