James Martin Cheuvront
October 18, 1831 - July 18, 1894
submitted by Dot Sipe

James Martin Cheuvront, (s/o Gideon Cheuvront and Phoebe Post), b. Oct. 18, 1831 (1860 Shelby Co., MO Census indicates b. c1821, 1850 Lewis Co., VA 
indicates c1822), m. Dec. 24, 1848, VA, Mary Parr (d/o William and Frances Parr, and sister of Elizabeth Parr who m. Alexander Lorentz), b. 1824, VA, d. Jul 18, 1894. James Martin traveled with his brother George from VA and settled on a farm near Leonard, Shelby County, Missouri, while George settled in Sullivan Co., MO. 1860 census indicates the following family, and the only Cheuvront family I was able to find in Shelby Co., on the 1860 census: Gideon b, c1850, VA; Loyd, b. c1851, VA; James D., b. c1858, MO; Amanda, b. c1850, ILL.