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/oMB.2ACI/571.3.1.1 Message Board Post: The primary book is "The History of Grundy County" published in 1880. A copy is available through the inter-library loan system from the Mid-Continent Public Library, Genealogy branch, Independence Missouri. Your local librarian can request the book from the MCPL and have it shipped to your local library (there is usually a postal-charge involved). You can learn more about the inter-library loan service at their web-site (www.mcpl.lib.mo.us) This book had about 14 pages referencing Bain family members. If you have difficulty obtaining the book for review I might be able to copy some pages for you. Here are some exerpts from the book: page 613 "JESSE BAIN. The subject of this sketch is entitled to the honor of being the first white settler that had a family and located in Lincoln Township, Grundy county, Missouri, and now, in 1881, is still living. His birth-place was in Muskingum county, Ohio, and the date June 21, 1812. He was the eldest son of RIASON and ELLENDER BAIN. His father was born upon the present site of Wheeling, West Virginia, April 19, 1791. His mother was also a native of Virginia, born in 1797. Our subject lived in Muskingum county till about twenty-two years of age, and then moved to Rush county, Indiana, and remained there till the spring of 1837, then in company of his father and his only full brother, JACOB, started to find a home in the then far West..." (This bio continues for a full page. There is also a bio on P.W. BAIN, Jesse's son.) page 206 - Lists JACOB BAIN as a private (along with my great-grandfather John Munn) in a mounted company formed August 28, 1847 in Grundy, for the Mexican-American War. The article listed an OLIVER BAIN, as a 1st Lt. There are also references to the BAIN-KELSO settlement being the foundation for what became Lincoln township. page 222 - Capt JACOB BAIN confederates in Grundy of Lincoln Township raised a company in Mercer (county) of 183 men, they mustered with Col CLARK's regiment at Chillicothe. In addition, here is what I found in the 1850 Grundy county, Missouri census: 35th Dist twp, Series M432_400, page 413 373/372 JACOB BAIN 28 farmer OH Adaline 22 OH Jesse M 2/12 MO 373/373 JESSE BAIN 38 farmer OH Catherine 33 TN Pleasant 8 TN Oliver 8/12 MO Eliza David 33 OH Elizabeth 9 OH