I wanted to point something out what Lanita posted last week on this list. Remember that Daviess county was part of Ray County, Missouri for a while. The Splawn's can be found in the 1830 census for Ray County. Yesterday I saw in a marriage record book that we have for sale, that some Splawn's are listed as being married in Ray County. I have been typing old courthouse records for Ray County and I remember seeing these names in some. These records date from 1828 to the 1870's. The records pertain to various county items, such as license's, stray animals reported, who was paid for carrying the poll book from such and such a place to the county seat, etc. These records are published in our quarterly. Please don't ask me to do look up's right now. I really don't have time. I just wanted to mention that if you are having a hard time finding some information on these early settlers of Daviess county they were considered being in Ray county before Daviess became a county. Researching the Goodbar's of Daviess county Lisa Smalley MORAY-CGA List Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~morcga/ Ray County Genealogical Assn. ********************************************************************* [the CAPS and abbreviations are mine] [pg 144-145] 1830-1831 .......The first man to raise his cabin within Daviess Co. was John SPLAWN & with him was his son, Mayberry SPLAWN. The cabin was erected near the Rock Island depot, but ws soon after removed to what was known as Splawn's Ridge, about 3 mi east of Gallatin, and near what afterward became the town of Millport, and just south of the site of that old but now plowed up town. They came in January, 1830. Who built the 2nd cabin has not been determined, but it probably was raised soon after the above date. The 3rd cabin in Daviess Co. was put up by John TARWATER. John, and Nancy, his wife, and Nancy, his dau. (afterward Mrs. Nancy NATION], lived in the cabin. They settled on sec. 34, in township #59, of range #27, just above the mouth of Honey Creek. Stephen ROBERTS settled the same month. These men were the first settlers in the county and came in Jan and Feb, followed by Danield DEVAUL and others in April of the same year.