Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Adam Eckhard
• Occupation: Meat Packer
• Religion: Evangelical

Notes:

From Home Town Sketches by Emile Palliou
Adam Eckhard

"Mistah Eckhard, I wants me a two poun' potah-house steak, and I pays you Sattidy shore!" A swift, appraising glance, then quick decision. "No, you don't, Jim, what you want is ten cents worth of liver. Here it is and you are a lucky nigger to get it."

Adam Eckhard was the original advocate of the "cheaper cuts" for the impecunious, and therewith went advice based upon such sound philosophy that should have proven of high value to the recipients, but was merely the casting of pearls before swine in most cases.

And yet, who can say the pearls were utterly lost? A rough talker was Adam Eckhard -even a ferocious man with his tongue where hypocrites and shams in general were at issue, but under the hard exterior was a heart as soft as that of a woman.

He was our next door neighbor. I fought and played with his children. When I got the worst of it, I took it out on his windows, and when his boys got licked, then our window panes suffered. The glazier was a frequent caller in our neighborhood.

Never did I see such open-handed hospitality extended to children. It seemed to me he had a thousand bushels of apples in his cellar, and great stone jars of cookies stood constantly within reach of small hands.

Fate certainly gave him a scurvy deal in return for his uprightness. His wife, an invalid for years and whom he tenderly cherished, died. His children one by one, were cut off in the flower of youth; only one daughter remains.

I saw Mr. Eckhard the year before his death and I found him a very old, lonely, brokenhearted man. It was some time before he recognized me. Then he took me out to the stable where he kept a superannuated mare in luxury. She came right up and nuzzled him. He put his old arms about her neck and the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Dixie," he said chokingly, "we are the only ones left, but it won't be for long-it won't be for long."

Lived on High Street in Boonville. Was a butcher with his shop on Water Street at the end of Seventh Street.

Adam married Brenneisen, Marie Katherine on 11 Mar 1855 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Marie (daughter of Brenneisen, Reinhard and Frey, Mary Catherine) was born on 17 Dec 1831 in Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died in 1900 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in 1900 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eckhard, George Adam was born on 23 Mar 1857 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died in DECEASED.
2. Eckhard, Louise was born on 28 Jan 1859 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died in DECEASED.
3. Eckhard, John Edward was born on 16 Apr 1859 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died in DECEASED.
4. Eckhard, Ella M was born between 1860 and 1862 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.
5. Eckhard, Josie L was born in 1863 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.
6. Eckhard, William C was born between 1865 and 1866 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.
7. Eckhard, Schuler C was born between 1868 and 1869 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.
8. Eckhard, Edward A was born in 1872 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.

Family/Spouse: Brennerson, Catherine. Catherine was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eckhardt, Edwin A

John married Zuloff, Katherine. Katherine was born in UNKNOWN in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]