His father, A. G. Staples, was a native of Augusta, Georgia, and when about thirty-eight years of age immigrated to Tennessee, where he remained till 1826, then coming to Jackson County, Missouri. Here he remained till the time of his demise in 1870. The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom grew up, but only two are now living. ...
