Thanks to all of you for the information. I'm sending a letter out to Roy Brockman tomorrow morning. I pulled out the 1875 Gasconade County plat map that I've had for a few years and compared it to the Canaan map in the Gasc. Co. Cemetery Survey book and was able to locate where Hibler's Prairie is. It is in Section 10, T42N, between Hwy 19 and Piezuch Road, probably close to where Old Salem Cemetery is located. Ellie, I think we are probably related on the Stites side, as well as through the Mahanay side. Milton Hibler's father was John Steitz (also spelled Stites) Hibler. He was the son of Samuel Hibler and Rebecca Steitz. On the old 1875 plat map there is a property owned by a J.T. Stites. This is probably your direct ancestor and possibly related to Rebecca. If anyone knows of any interesting landmarks in the part of the county north of the area between Owensville and Rosebud, please let me know so I can add them to my list of places and things to see. Do you know if any of the old homesteads are still standing or still inhabited? Thanks again, Derelys