James M Durrett

• General Notes
  • James M. Durrett, P. O., Marshall. Was born in Saline county, Missouri,  October 24, 1853, where he was raised and was educated at Kemper’s Academy, Booneville, Missouri. His father, Marshall Durrett, was a native of Virginia coming to Missouriat about the age of eighteen, and was married to Margaret Garrett. After leaving school, he went home, and with his brother, M. C. Durrett, worked his father’s farm, eight miles east of Marshall, on the Marshall and Arrow Rock road. In 1876, he built on his own farm, just north of the old homestead, and moved there, and has lived there since. He owns 180 acres of prairie land, and is busily and successfully engaged in farming. He is not yet married, but then he may be any time.  Page 579