Hi All, Fristo's Regiment is on our E. G. Gerdes Civil War pages and has rosters. http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/fristodx.htm http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/ Hope this helps. Jeri Helms Fultz_______________________________ "but I remain your affectinate cosin untill death" Thank you again ggrandpa Davis for those words. Never dreamed I'd get to use em! ______________________________ Personal webpages - http://home.earthlink.net/~jerifultz/ Edward G. Gerdes AR Civil War pages. http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/ Lawrence Co Arkansas Pages http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <mo-oregon-history-request@rootsweb.com> To: <mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:00 AM Subject: MO-OREGON-HISTORY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 61 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary (Jane Foley) > 2. Re: Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary (Gene Phillips) > 3. Re: Webster (Lanita Sconce Smith) > 4. Webster (Lanita Sconce Smith) > 5. Re: Webster (Gene Phillips) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:17:45 -0400 > From: "Jane Foley" <mjfent@bellsouth.net> > Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary > To: <mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <00fe01c7841f$d620e0c0$6101a8c0@D1F3R881> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Lanita, I have been curious about how Oregon Co. camed to be named that. > Do > you have any idea or even why it was changed from Webster? > > Jane Foley > NC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lanita Sconce Smith" <ozarkn@grm.net> > To: <mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 7:59 PM > Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary > > >> Oregon Co. was originally named Webster before they changed it to >> Oregon. >> >> Lanita >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:05:37 -0500 > From: Gene Phillips <okienms@telepath.com> > Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary > To: mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <E1HfQWg-0006Jv-Jj@elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > It was never named Webster. Oregon county was created in 1845 from part of > Ripley County. Ripley County was created in 1833 from part of Wayne > County. Wayne county was created before statehood and covered about the > area of everything south of and including Springfield. > Webster County was created in 1855 from land that was part of the original > Wayne county. > > Gene > > At 09:17 AM 4/21/2007, you wrote: >>Lanita, I have been curious about how Oregon Co. camed to be named that. >>Do >>you have any idea or even why it was changed from Webster? >> >>Jane Foley >>NC >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Lanita Sconce Smith" <ozarkn@grm.net> >>To: <mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 7:59 PM >>Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Fristoe's Regiment, MO Calvary >> >> >>> Oregon Co. was originally named Webster before they changed it to >>> Oregon. >>> >>> Lanita >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:16:45 -0500 > From: Lanita Sconce Smith <ozarkn@grm.net> > Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Webster > To: mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <1c28d2982fedef3378378e7763c01b62@grm.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Sorry, all of the Oregon Co boys were listed as being in WEBSTER > County, the old county name before they came up with Oregon. It was > indeed a part of Ripley but the 1st name was Webster and not Oregon Co. > It was that name a very short while, I've been trying to find where I > found that.. will get back to you. > > Lanita > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:21:03 -0500 > From: Lanita Sconce Smith <ozarkn@grm.net> > Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Webster > To: OREGON CO HISTORY HISTORY <mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <e5bcbfe6815a7e2101537f23d9137e00@grm.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Okay, I found my confusion. Simpson Couch landed in Oregon Co./Ripley > Co./Lawrence Co., AR, in 1830s. When he settled in the land we now know > as Oregon Co in the Couch community, the community was 1st named HY and > then the name was changed to WEBSTER before Simpson changed it to > COUCH. > > Here are just some of the original names of locations in the county and > what they are called now: > > NOW/THEN > Couch/ Hy and also called WEBSTER > > Thomasville/Rich Hill > > Alton/Owlton > > Pleasant Hill/Seed Tick > > Greer crossing/Bellow Falls > > Bardley/Tightwad > > New Liberty/Brawley > > Joliff Springs/Goober Creek > > Riverton/Johnson's Ferry > > Royal Oak/Stringtown > > Thayer/Division then it was called Augusta > > > > Hope this helps! > Lanita > > I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:38:31 -0500 > From: Gene Phillips <okienms@telepath.com> > Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] Webster > To: mo-oregon-history@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <E1HfSOU-00025r-IA@elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I just looked at Ed's and it listed them as being from Webster, MO. The > first page of the history shows that Company G, the company the Couch boys > were in was formed in Webster TOWNSHIP. Apparently that township no longer > exists or the name changed. It could also be in a neighboring county and > that was the closest place they could sign up. A note on Ed's page says > the location listed is the place of enlistment, but may also be place of > residence. > > My gg-grandfather Benjamin Phillips was also in Company G and he lived in > Piney Township in Oregon County. > > Gene > > At 08:16 PM 4/21/2007, you wrote: >>Sorry, all of the Oregon Co boys were listed as being in WEBSTER >>County, the old county name before they came up with Oregon. It was >>indeed a part of Ripley but the 1st name was Webster and not Oregon Co. >>It was that name a very short while, I've been trying to find where I >>found that.. will get back to you. >> >>Lanita >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MO-OREGON-HISTORY list administrator, send an email to > MO-OREGON-HISTORY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MO-OREGON-HISTORY mailing list, send an email to > MO-OREGON-HISTORY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of MO-OREGON-HISTORY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 61 > ************************************************ >