This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BEDELL, CAMPBELL, SALTAR Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/796.1.1 Message Board Post: James, I will give it a try. Thank you very much. Joyce

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/796.1 Message Board Post: CALL THE CLAY COUNTY ARCHIVES IN LIBERTY MO AT 816-781-3611 THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HELP THERE OPENED MON - WED 1000-400 HOPE THIS HELPS JIM THOMAS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/809.2 Message Board Post: AMY I HAVE THE BOOKS ON MARRIAGES IN CLAY COUNTY BETWEEN 1821- 1904 IF I CAN BE OF ANY HELP LOOKING UP SOMEONE JUST EMAIL ME AT SWEETCORNCROP@MSN.COM JIM THOMAS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/843.1 Message Board Post: GOSS CEMETARY IS LOCATED NORTH OF SMITHVILE.TAKE HIGHWAY 169 NORTH TO HWY KK WHICH IS JUST OUT OF SMITHVILLE TAKE A LEFT ON KK AND GO ABOUT 1/2MILE TO THOMAS LANE TAKE A RIGHT FOLLOW IT ABOUT 1/2 MILE AND GOSS CEMETARY IS ON THE RIGHT. I HAVE BEEN THERE LOOKING FOR MY RELATION WHO MIGHT YOU BE LOOKING FOR. THE CLAY CO ARCHIVES IN LIBERTY HAS ALL THE CEMETARY RECORDS AND ARE OPEN MON- WED 1000 TO 400 I HOPE THIS HELPS JIM THOMAS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fitzlen, Scearce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/888.1 Message Board Post: I have emailed you privately about Fitzlen and Scearce.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/888 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on John and Elizabeth Fritzlen. They moved to Clay Co., MO in 1850 and raised 8 children there. My Uncle was the youngest child in the family and would like to learn about them. Where would I write for an obit? John lived until 1910, Elizabeth until 1889. Thank you for any help or suggestions that you can give me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mosby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/354.519.2 Message Board Post: My previous post included all the Mosby biographies in the book. Nothing for the name on a CD I have that includes Clay County. Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/684.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: thank you for your info. Rose M. is my grandma so this info is important to me. You don't need to tell me how surprisingly little there is on this name. I have struggled just to find anything beyond my greatgrandparents so I appreciate your help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tarrants Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/684.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Geo. W., age 39 Rose, age 33 Catherine, age 4 Rose M., age 3 Josephine, age 4 months 1880 census for Cook CO. IL Both G.W. and Rose show born in MO and parents born in KY. Surprisingly little else found on that name. Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mosby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/354.519.1 Message Board Post: I don't think this is your bunch, but here are the Mosby names in the book. HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY. 353 JAMES W. MOSBEY (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office Liberty) The Mosby family is originally of Virginia, and Gen. Mosby of Confederate fame, is one of its prominent representatives. The subject of the present sketch, however, comes of a Kentucky branch of the family. He was a son of Wade Mosby, a native of Woodford county, Kentucky. The father removed to Clay county, Missouri, as early as 1824. He was a farmer by occupation and died here in 1857. The mother, who was a Miss Rebecca Shouse before her marriage, died in 1865. James W. Mosby was born October 1, 1836, and was reared in this county. He was brought up a farmer, and in 1860 was married to Miss Sue Riley, a daughter of Alfred M. Riley, an early settler of Clay county. The result of this union has been one child, Charles, who is now a youth, twenty-four years of age. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Mosby has a good farm of 320 acres, a half mile from Robinson’s Station, on the H. & St. Jo. Railroad, and is Comfortably situated. He breeds and deal! s in short horn cattle and feeds cattle and hogs for the wholesale market; in fact, he is quite a stock dealer, and is satisfactorily successful. He has always taken quite an interest in schools and does much to keep up a high standard of efficiency in the schools of his vicinity. CHARLES MOSBY (Farmer and Fine &tock.raiser, Fost.office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby is a son of James W. Mosby and was born on his father’s homestead in this county in October, 1861. He was reared on a farm and in 1881, at the age of twenty, or, rather in his twenty-first year, he was married to Miss Jennie Grooms, a daughter of Capt. John S. Grooms, an old and prominent citizen of this county. Mr. and Mrs. M. have two children, James F. and John G. Mr. Mosby was reared a farmer and stock-raiser and has continued in the calling to which he was brought up. He has a handsome farm of 300 acres, situated two miles and a half north of Liberty, which is substantially and comfortably improved. He makes a specialty of raising fine Polland-Angus cattle and has a handsome herd of that breed of stock. On several of his stock he has been awarded premiums at different fairs. At the head of his herd he has a fine bull, Byron, imported from Scotland. Mr. Mosby also fattens a number of beef cattle and quite a number of hogs each winter for the wholesale m! arkets. He is a farmer of enterprise and a man of good education. He was educated at William Jewell College, and afterwards took a course at Jacksonville Business College. Mr. M. is one of the prominent young farmers of the county. He has excellent young stock for sale at all times. JOHN H. MOSBY (Farmer, Stock-raiser and Stock-dealer, Post-office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby parents, Wade and Rebecca Mosby, came to Clay county from Kentucky in 1822. They made this their permanent home, the father being a farmer by occupation. John H. was born after the family settled here, in 1824. Reared in this county, he was married in 1855 to Miss Sarah Hall. Meanwhile he had been to California and returned. He went overland to the Pacific coast in 1850, and was absent about two years. While there he was principally engaged in mining. Most of the time he was on the Yuba, in the vicinity of Nevada City, but for a time was on the Poor Man’s creek, which was then thought to be of little or no value as a mining district, but which afterwards was found to have some of the richest deposits in the country, and became a wealthy mining region. Returning in 1852, Mr. Mosby engaged in farming and stock-raising in this county. His whole time, for the past 30 years, has been busily occupied with his farming and stock interests. He has a large farm of 60! 0 acres, one of the best farms in Fishing River township, and he is extensively engaged in raising and dealing in stock. He has a handsome herd of short horn cattle, and feeds annually about 100 head of beef cattle, besides a large number of marketable hogs. Mr. Mosby is one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of this part of the county, and is in comfortable circumstances. His place is well improved, including a handsome residence, erected in 1871, at a cost of $5,000. He also has large and comfortable barns and other outbuildings, and his lands are mainly devoted to blue grass for stock pasturage, but enough is reserved for grain for the ordinary purposes of stock raising. Mr. and Mrs. Moshy have a family of five children: Addie, the wife of Charles Dye; Ettie, Ida, Gertie and William. They have lost three: Edgar, Mamie and Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Christian Church. DEWILTON MOSBY (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Liberty). Mr. Mosby’s farm contains 560 acres, and, like his cousin John H., he makes a specialty of the stock business. He fattens for the markets annually from 50 to 75 head of cattle and a large number of hogs. August 23, 1873, he was married to Miss Martha M. Archer, of this county. They have five children: Jesse D., Rosa L., Emmet A., Nicholas and Bonnie M. Nicholas was named for his grandfather, Nicholas Mosby, who came to this county from Kentucky in 1837. Nicholas Mosby, the elder, was born in Woodiord county, that State, and was reared in Kentucky, where he married Miss Mary Shouse. Some years afterwards he came to Missouri and settled in Clay county. He was an energetic farmer, and soon became comfortably situated. His son, Dewilton Mosby, the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky, April 23, 1825, and was about 12 years of age when the family came to Clay county. He was reared on a farm, and in 1846 enlisted for the Mexican War. He served under Col. Doniphan and was honorably discharged at New Orleans after the final defeat of the Mexicans. He then came home and resumed farming. In 1850 he went to California, driving an ox team across the plains, and five months were occupied with the trip. After his return again he went to farming, and has followed it ever since. ALBERT G. MOSBY (Farmer and Stock raiser, Post office, Frathersville) The subject of this sketch is a brother to IDewilton Mosby, already mentioned, and was born in Woodford county, Ky , in 1829 He was therefore in childhood when his parents came to Missouri, in 1833, and settled in Clay county. Brought up in that county in that early day, he, of course, had to experience hard woik incident to Western farm life — improving land, and farming before the era of farm machinery, and when everything done had to be done by hard work While this was pretty severe on some who had no taste for straightforward manual labor, to the subject of this sketch it was not as disagreeable as might be expected. He was early trained that the most honest way to make a living was by honest industry, and that if he hoped to succeed in life, without reproach, the surest and safest course was to rely upon honest labor. Accordingly, he came up a hard-working, upright man, which he has ever since continued to be. He has relied on his own exertions alone for success! , and has not been disappointed. Now, and for years past, he has been comfortably situated on a good farm, where he has every necessary convenience to make life a satisfaction and pleasure. His place contains about 640 acres, and besides raising large quantities of grain and other products, he feeds annually for the wholesale markets about 150 head of beef cattle, and nearly an equal number of hogs. His farm is mainly run in blue grass for stock purposes. In 1850 Mr. Mosby was married to Miss Mary A. lodges, daughter of Judge W. V. Hodges, of this county, but formerly of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Mosby have six children: Eva M., now the wife of William T. Pixley; Lunette, now the wife of Dr. C. B. Hardin; George A., Lee J., John H. and James D. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Primitive Baptist Church. Mr. Mosby also has a large grain farm in the Missouri river bottoms in this county.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/684.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information. I guess you have nothing on their children, James Henry, Anna, Oscar, Isaac, Emma and George. I"m particularly interested in George since he's my gggrandfather.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MOSBY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/354.519 Message Board Post: The History of Clay and Platte Counties Was wondering if your reference might include any mention of: William and Elizabeth (Smith) MOSBY or John S. and Mary Francis (Hilliard) MOSBY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tarrants, Cook, Woodburn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/684.2 Message Board Post: Baron Tarrants b. 9 Dec 1835, d.21 Mar 1903, buried Antioch Cemetery, Clinton County, MO. Married 16 Mar 1865, Clinton County, MO to: Elizabeth Ann Cook b.25 Jul 1840 Guilford county, NC, d. 17 Apr 1903 prob. Clinton Co., MO, buried Antioch Cemetery, Clinton Co., MO She is the daughter of Isaac Cook, a blacksmith, and his first wife Hannah Eveline Woodburn. They relocated from Guilford county, NC to Clinton Co., MO in 1844.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nall, Adkins, Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/778.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Bill, I am not associated with this family. I just have some local resources and do lookups as time permits. I did see on the 1850 census, the first census with names other than head-of-household, Richard and Elizabeth have 2 children still living with them: Joseph, age 19, and Martha, age17. I also have a CD with other Clay biographies, one with a George Nall, which appears to have been born in the 1840's. One of his sisters was married to an F.M. Barnes, who was a stock-raiser in Clay County. There is no Fannie among the 8 children listed of George and his wife. Georges wife was a Harrison from the lineage of Pres. Harrison. The Fannie Nall I found in Platte County married a Harrison as well. They may all tie in together but I have no evidence of such. I have more resources for Platte than I do for Clay. Good luck and let me know if there is something I can check further for you. I have info on most counties in NW MO. Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins, Nall, Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/778.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your prompt reply, Chuck, I have already reviewed the two books you referenced. I am particularly seeking information on Elizabeth Adkins Barnes who died in Clay Co. Nov. 1876, mother of 8 children and we are interested in their names, also. Interested in Fannie Nall, daughter of Henry and Sarah Nall, who married Richard Barnes, Jr. I have a Fannie Nall who married Edward L. Bowring (my wife's family) and am anxious to see if there is a connection. Don't have the parents names for our Fannie Nall. If you can help we would certainly appreciate it, you seem to have a large collection of information in this family. Thank you, Churck.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/778.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Mr. Gerow, There are many Adkins in Clay and Platte Counties. The pages on the biographies in the Clay County book are faded and do not scan well. If I have the time in the near future, I will work on them. If you can give me the names you are looking for I will check the names in the books I have. The Clay County Adkins intermarried with the Pence family. You may want to check out Richard Pence's web site: http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence He may have some info there for you as well. He is a well respected, award winning genealogist as you will see at his site. I would suggest checking with a local library to see if you can get an ILL (inter-library loan) on these books: History of Clay and Platte Counties Published in St. Louis by the National Historical Society in 1885 Annals of Platte County Author: W.M. Paxton Published in 1897 Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins, Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/778.1.2 Message Board Post: I am interested in your response regarding Richard Barnes who was married to Elizabeth Adkins. I have been researching the Adkins family for some years since my retirement but have not located an Adkins this far back in time. Do you have any additional information on Elizabeth and her family that you would be willing to share with us? Unfortuntely I do not have any information about the Barnes family to share with you in return. Thank you for your time and attention, look forward to hearing from you. Bill Gerow

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barnes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/778.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: >From "History of Clay and Platte Counties" 1885 RICHARD S. BARNES (Farmer, post-office, Blue Eagle). Richard Barnes, Sr., the father of the subject of this sketch, was a lieutenant under Col. Johnson in the War of 1812 and afterwards drew a pension from the Government in recognition of his service. He was a Virginian by nativity and a mechanic by trade, but afterwards devoted his time and attention largely to farming. In an early day he removed to Kentucky and then, in 1823, to Boone county, MO. Two years later he came to Clay county, where he made his permanent home. He died here in 1861, at an advanced age. His wife, was previously a Miss Elizabeth Adkins, of Woodford county, KY died in this county, November 23, 1876. Both were members of the Baptist Church, and took a prominent part in religions matters. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are living. Richard S. Barnes, the subject of this sketch, was born in this county December 27, 1826. Reared here, in 1853 he went to Oregon and a year later dropped down into California, where he was engaged in mining. sh! ip building, etc., for about two years. Returning thence to Missouri, the following year he went back to California, and was in that State and Nevada until 1865. Previous to going West he had enlisted for service in the Mexican War, but his company was never ordered out. Mr. Barnes was married in this county, February 6, 186S iii Miss Fannie, a daughter. of Henry and Sarah Nall. Mr. and Mrs. B. have five children: Lewis H., Edward T., Charles G., Earl N. and Willie E. Mr. Barnes has been one of the active and energetic farmers of Clay county ever since the war, and has had good success. He owns an excellent farm of 370 acres, all choice land and well improved. In the matter of religious conviction Mr. Barnes is a disciple of Nature, believing that the only true idea of God is to be formed from the visible manifestation. His works in the beauty and harmony and order of Nature. He is entirely content to let sectarians differ and contend over written creeds, whilst he looks u! p and does reverence and honor to the majestic God of the Universe, re gardless of bibles, Korans and all the other books that have been prepared in the distant past for the guidance of the highest and best interests of humanity.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/778.4 Message Board Post: diane have been trying to contact with the email on your query but it will no go thru. i am a direct descendent of richard barnes thru william e., then robert. thanks pauline constant

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: barnes, warren, adkins, poston and constant Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hMB.2ACI/778.1.1.1 Message Board Post: i would like to have a copy too. i am a direct descendent of richards thru william e. and amanda warren. then thru robert and mattie barnes. thanks pauline constant