JOHN DAVIS HAGGARD was born July 5, 1815, on a farm in Murry county, Tennessee. When seven years of age he came with his parents to Illinois and settled in Morgan county, near Waverly; lived on the farm with his father until he was eighteen years of age, when he married Nancy J. Clack. He lived with his father one year, then broke sod-prairie seven years in Morgan dn Sangamon counties; rented land two or three years, then bought a farm of forty-one acres, raw prairie; lived on this farm until 1877, when he sold out and opened a grocery store in Roodhouse, sold his store one year later, and returned to this county and bought four lots in Lowder where he still resides. He has been constable twenty-seven years, and in politics, he is a Democrat. He was a son of Edmund Haggard, who was a Mason, and member of the Christian Church. His wife, Elizabeth (Andrews) haggard, was a member of Christian Church, also, and mother of ten children, seven boys and three girls.