Elihu Emory Hendry, relative to the Moore and Pilcher families, was born in Tennessee and married Mary Jane Pilcher in St. Louis on 14 Feb 1860. Mary Jane was the daughter of Ezekiel Pilcher and his wife Louisa (Ballard), and was the mother of Clara and Sarah Louise, who were also referred to as Dolly and Lulu respectively. They resided in Dallas Co., Missouri in 1880 and in 1900 were living in Central Twp., St. Louis County. A letter of Mary Jane to her sister Clara in 1873 remains in the possession of P. Davidson-Peters and was written from Springfield.

After Joseph's death on 12 Apr 1829, Elizabeth married Hiram H. Shaw. Their marriage took place in St. Louis on 16 Nov 1830. They were enumerated in the 1850 & 1860 census records residing in that city and their household included Elizabeth's son, John Edmund Liggett and his family. At the age of eighteen, he had entered the employ of Foulks & Shaw tobacco manufacturers, the members of the firm being his maternal grandfather (Christopher Foulks) and stepfather (Hiram Shaw). John then became a partner of the firm known as Hiram Shaw & Co. A year and a half later his brother Willian Carr Lane "W.C.L." Liggett purchased Shaw's interest, and the name was changed to J.E. Liggett & Bro. to reflect the change as it is shown here in the 1850 St. Louis Directory.

W.C.L. Liggett sold his interest to Henry Dausman and for eighteen years it was known as Liggett & Dausman. In 1873, George S. Myers purchased Dausman's interest and the business was then known as Liggett & Myers which was incorporated as Liggett & Myer Tobacco Manufacturing Company in 1878, and for many years thereafter.

John Edmund Liggett died in St. Louis on 23 Nov 1897, his widow Elizabeth Jane (Calbreath) whom he married 21 Dec 1851, died in St. Louis on 07 May 1909.

Isaac's advertisement was taken from the Oregon & Washington Almanac of 1863, and from his writings, A Pony Expressman's Recollections, he explains: "The company was generally known as Mossman's Express, although for a short time it was actually Mossman & Miller's Express. When (Joaquin) Miller left, I took in as partners J.C. Franklin, Thomas Paulson, Put Smith and one John McBride. We did a good business. For some time Franklin stayed in Portland, bought gold dust and spent money freely on himsefl and wife. McBride rode as messenger between Florence and Lewiston. One night he gambled off $2000 of the company's money and then skipped to Montana.

One disaster after another overtook me, and in June, 1863, two years after my first trip into Oron Fino, I was forced to close out to Wells, Fargo & Co. Afterwards I made a few trips to Granite Creek, Elk City, and Auburn, on Powder River; but in the spring of 1863 I quit the express business only about $1000 ahead for my two years' work."