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 586 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST INHSSOUKI Krone is a keen, far-sighted man of business, and throns'li his own efforts has accuniuLTted a good property. He has two hundred and thirty-eight acres of valuable farming land, the greater part of which is under cultiva- tion, and is operated by tenants. He has also erected several liusiness houses and residences in Senath. In April, 1909. Mr. Krone was elected mayor of Senath, and served the city so ably and faithfully that in April, 1911, he was re-elected to the same high position. Mr. Krone married, July 28, 1901, Fanny Barr, who was born in Texas, but was brought up near Senath, Missouri, where her father was engaged in farming until his death. The union of ]Ir. and ^Irs. Krone has been blessed by the liirth of one child. Jewel. Religiously Mrs. Krone is a member of the Christian church. IMr. Krone is an active member of the Democratic party, and fraternally he be- longs to the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks ; to the Modern Woodmen of America : and to the Woodmen of the World. Edward B. Reck. Fourteen years post- master of Lutesville with an average absence from the office of less than a day a year is the enviable record of Edward B. Reek, born in Cape Girardeau, September 1, 1869. Both his father, Frederick Reck, and his mother, Adelina, were natives of Missouri and of Cape Girardeau county. The former was born near Appleton and the latter near Shawneetown. Mr. Reek's grandfather, George Reck, was born in Germany, likewise his grandmother, Catherine Reck. George Reck was a shoemaker in the "fatherland" and followed that trade in Cape Girardeau county, where he had an extensive business, and was also engaged in farming. After serving ten months in the militia. Frederick Reck enlisted in the Union Army, May 2, 1863. He belonged to Company C, second Missouri Light Artillery. He served in the war until December, 1865, and then spent six months fighting the Indians. The cam- paign was one of incessant activity. Engage- ments were numerous and often desperate. Mr. Reek was in the tight at Jefferson City and the one at Glasgow, besides a number of lesser engagements and numberless skir- mishes. After being mustered out of service in 1866, Mr. Reck married IMiss Adeline Wliiteledge and resumed his occupation of farming, in which his good management and bard work made him more than ordinarily successful. Edward B. is one of the three children of ilr. and ]Irs. Frederick Reck, the others being: John A. Reck, a physician of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Cora, wife of Jlason F. Kinder, of IMarble Hill, Missouri. Like most of the successful men of his gen- eration, Edward B. Reck spent his boyhood on his father's farm. He attended the public schools and had the additional advantage of a course in the Pocahontas high school. He remained with his father until he was twenty- four years old and then went to farming for himself on his father's home place of sev- enty acres. In Augiist, 1893, he moved to Lutesville and for three years worked there as a laborer. In 1897 ^Mr. Reck was ap- pointed postmaster, which office he still holds. The Lutesville postoffice is no sine- cure, as all the mail for the southern part of the county must pass through the Lutes- ville office. Formerly Mr. Reck handled the mail for the following offices. Marble Hill, Leopold, Dongola, Zalma, Huxis, Hahn and Lutes'ille. The distribution is now made through INFarble Hill, Zalma and Hahn. Mr. Reck sorts out the mail for the four or five offices for which Zalma is the distributing point. The Lutesville office has been bur- glarized twice during Mr. Reek's term of service. Mr. Reek was first married to Rosa Schatte, of Cape Girardeau county, on Christmas day of 1892. Rosa was the daughter of John and ]Iary Schatte, old residents of the county but natives of Germanv. The death of Mrs. Reck occurred ilarch 14, 1897. In 1898 Mr. Reek's union with Mrs. Julia A. Yount took place. She is the daughter of Henry Scheni- mann, of Cape Girardeau county, where he was a successful merchant, also a farmer and stock raiser. Henry Schenimann came to America from Germany in 1844 with his father, D. Schenimann. The boy was but nine years old at the time. The family set- tled in Cape Girardeau county, where Mrs. Reek's father grew up. Mr. Henry Scheni- mami served three years in the enrolled mili- tia in the Civil war. He afterwards engaged in mercantile business at Neely's Landing. His daughter Julia became the wife of W. C. Yount, a merchant of Patton, Mis.souri, on March 27, 1895. One child. Miss Willie C, was born of this union, which was trag- ically ended before their first annivei-sary, for Mr. Yount was shot March 14, 1896. The eldest of Mr. and Mrs. Reek's four