Source: "History of Missouri Illustrated, History of Harrison & Mercer Counties", page 722-23 Biographical Appendix Mercer County printed in 1888. This book was re-printed in May-2000 by the Mercer and Harrison Co. Gen. Soc. Silas Mobley was born May 2, 1837, in Belmont County, Ohio. His parents were natives, respectively, of Maryland and Pennsylvania, but were married in Ohio, where they reared a family of three daughters, and one son. When fourteen years of age Silas accompanied his parents to Wood County, Va., where his father shortly after died. The mother then returned to Ohio, where she died the following year. Two of the daughters were then married, one having died March 2, 1848, and Silas, who was the youngest child, was practically left alone on the world. June 14, 1855, he married Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer Buchanan, by whom two daughters and three sons were born: Sarah, born October 2, 1856; William, born July 6, 1859, and James, born May 31, 1862. In 1865 Mr. Mobley immigrated to Mercer County, Mo., where he has since resided, and now Owns 156 acres of good land. Since his residence in this State two more children have been born: Margaret, born June 18, 1866, and John, born August 21, 1869. All his children are at present residents of Missouri. December 18, 1878, Mrs. Mobley died leaving an infant, Ida Rebecca, just born. May 1, 1879, Mr. Mobley married Urah M., daughter of M. B. Finch, by whom one daughter, Amy, was born, November 30, 1882, who died June 20, 1885. Mr. Mobley is a stanch Democrat, and although, prevented, from. serving in the Union cause, during the war on account of disability, lent all hia influence to the preservation the Union. He has been a member of the Christian Church for number of years, and is a liberal supporter of religious and eductional enterprises.