http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/1997/01/50.htm This a link to a humorous version of events concerning the Honey War. It's from the Missouri Conservationist magazine. Lori Sharon Becker wrote: > The little dispute between the Territory of Iowa and the State of Missouri > turned into what is called the Honey War. > > Bill e-mailed me: > > I can't seem to paste an address pertaining to the border dispute on the IADECATU site. > > There was a lot of moving back and forth across that poorly defined line from before Iowa Statehood until after the states were admitted. > > My great grandfather Peter Cartwright Stewart homesteaded in Center Township, Decatur County in 1851. > > There many reasons for choosing Iowa over Missouri in the early days; among them the Missouri Compromise allowing Maine as a "free state" and Missouri as a slave state. > > I won't mention it on line and start another spat with Mr. McClure. However my great grandmother would have felt that her Quaker background would have had her ready to start something. > > So I will attach it here for your reading. > William Stewart > Ames, Iowa > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_War > > Quite a few early Ringgold& Decatur County residents thought they were settling in Missouri, > were slave holders, then after realizing they were in Iowa, a non-slave territory, moved back > to Missouri or sold their slaves. > > I wrote a piece about the Honey War for Ringgold County's site: > http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/history/hist-beforestatehood-honeywar.html > > In all of my research, I've never found a single soul who served for either Iowa or Missouri > in that dispute. Except for Luke Shay of Ringgold County. He's the only one I've found. > Or the only one who admitted he served in that dispute. > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecer@iowatelecom.net > > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 1501 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > ---------------------------------------- > Your support makes IAGenWeb possible. > ~Visit The Friends of IAGenWeb Store today~ > http://www.cafepress.com/iagenweb/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >