In a message dated 8/25/2002 3:28:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I am looking for the townships for Dade Co. so I can do a > census look up. my wifes family was in Dade about 1900, > John Hughes and his mother Ellen, somewhere near Everton. > > Anything you might have on the Hughes family > would be appreciated. Her father Asa Thomas married just accross the > county line in Greene Co. at Ash Grove in 1901. He married > Addie Lee Lovins > Fred Clarke > Hi Fred, Everton is in Rock Prairie Township...For a snapshot map, there is one at the county website here, scroll down a ways: http://www.rootsweb.com/~modade/modade.htm HOWEVER, You also want to study the online 1903 Dade County Atlas, to make sure you know exactly where your folks were. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judysstuff/dade/atlas.htm The Hughes are on this page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judysstuff/dade/009.gif You'll need to look and figure out which of those Hughes might be yours, THEN go to the Table of Contents link, and match up the Township and Range numbers with the Page Number links. FYI, in 1942, my mother lived in SOUTH TOWNSHIP right near the Lawrence Co line. My father lived in Miller, Lawrence Co. just south of Dade (near Turnback Township). They were married in Ash Grove also! Good Luck!! Janet Hunter