NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11218 MONTGOMERY CO – Judge ANDREW FORGEY – Forgey, Gaines, Lindsey, Stone, Philips, 11218 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 596. Montgomery Co KY. Judge Andrews Forgey (deceased). The subject of our sketch was one of the oldest and best known citizens of Pike county; was born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, on the 8th day of November, 1799, but in early life removed with his parents to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he attained his majority; in the fall of 1820 he came to Pike county, Missouri, and after remaining about thirteen months returned to Kentucky and remained for a period of two years, when he again removed to Missouri, leaving his Kentucky home on the 3d day of October, 1823, and settled on the farm at Paynesville where he resided during the remainder of his life. Judge Forgey was first married to Mrs. Mary A. Lindsey, whose maiden name was Mary A. Gaines, September 3d, 1823, just one month previous to his departure for his new and distant western home. With his wife he continued, in the language of his own diary, to live contentedly and happily for a period of over forty-seven years. From this union were three children, all sons: William A., John E., and Thomas J. Forgey, all of whom still survive. Two of them still live in the township where their father long resided, and the other, T. J., has for several years been actively engaged in business in the city of St. Louis. Having lost his wife, in July, 1870, Judge Forgey was subsequently married to Mrs. Margaret Stone, whose maiden name was Margaret Philips, a daughter of Judge Gabriel Philips, of Pike county. Mrs. Forgey still resides on the premises which were left her by her affectionate and considerate husband. As early as 1838 Mr. Forgey received the appointment of magistrate, which position he held during a term of two years, and in 1842 he was elected judge of the county courts for four years and was afterwards twice re-elected with increasing majorities, thus holding the important position for a period of twelve years, when he refused again, accept their proffered suffrages. After his official service he retired to his farm, though he continued merchandising, in which business he had been engaged for many years, until about the year 1868. In 1861 he met with a heavy loss by fire, losing his store house and goods to the amount of ten thousand dollars. Judge Forgey was a man of powerful physical constitution, of prompt and ready action, of great prudence and personal and moral courage, and these qualities well fitted him for the arduous duties of a frontiersman, while his industrious and temperate habits, together with his systematic economy, contributed very largely in the accumulation of the large means he was afterwards able to control. As may be inferred from the above Judge Forgey was strictly a self-made man, with limited common school education. He was enabled, by the exercise of a sound and consummate judgment, to fill places of trust and responsibility. Without assistance he was enable, by his own persistence and self-reliance, to carve his own fortune out of his surroundings. Judge Forgey became a member of the M. E. Church on the 11th of October, 1818, and was, for a period of almost sixty-four years, and until his death, an exemplary and consistent member. He died June 7, 1882, mourned by his own family as a tender and generous husband and a kind and affectionate father, and by the people of the village, the township, and the county, as an upright and enterprising citizen, a conscientious and dignified Christian gentleman, and as a generous and cheerful contributor to every deserving enterprise; gave freely of his own personal means to every object deserving assistance and to every deserving object of charity. To furnish a school for the education of the children of the community he contributed liberally to the building of the Forgey Seminary, which, from his liberality took his name. He gave freely to all church enterprises, and a few houses of worship have been erected within a large area of Pike county to which he has not largely contributed. Unbiased and courteous in his treatment of his fellow men, upright and conscientious in the discharge of every duty, Judge Forgey always received and maintained the confidence and esteem of all who knew him, and when he passed away he left behind a memory fragrant with the esteem of the entire community. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch