Dear Cousins and Co-Researchers, Reading today in Charles E. Goodner's "Scott County in Retrospect," the following struck me on page 12: > It was in 1862 that Stephen Graves became county clerk. He came to Scott county from Georgia in 1848. > L.D. Gilbreath was deputy clerk at that time. However, in 1862 Gilbreath was elected county clerk. > During the war it was said that Mr. Gilbreath took the county records to Sedalia, Missouri for safety. > He and his family traveled by wagon along with the Brashier fmaily. the wagons were loaded and the > family had to walk alongside the wagons. When the wagons came to a creek, Mrs. Gilbreath would > climb atop the wagon bows and ride across to the other side. They were stopped by bushwhackers at > one point, but they were not physically harmed. This story raises a number of questions in my mind: (1) Whether this incident did, in fact, occur as related? (2) Whether these records found their way back home after the war? (3) Whether it's possible some of Scott County's earliest "lost" records still exist in Missouri? (4) Whether (the records not being returned) anyone has ever pursued their fate? Does anyone out there have even partial answers to these questions? Regards, Bryce