I was lucky enough to see and photograph the outside of the Fredericktown Courthouse in Oct 1999 (it was closed for the weekend. I have two people in my Moyers/Kelley and related Madison Co. family database that are said to have been carpenters on the courthouse. Does anyone know of a booklet/flyer that has a brief history of the courthouse? Linda McDowell in sunny California

Linda, I currently have a photo album at WebShots which consists of photos of various Courthouses in Southeast Missouri. I know that there are a couple of different pictures of the Madison County Courthouse at Fredericktown in that album. Also, I have another picture that I recently acquired that I haven't scanned and uploaded yet. I'll let you know when I get that one done so you can look at it too. Here's the link to my album: Courthouses of Southeast Missouri http://community.webshots.com/album/1037604 There is a book entitled "Historic Madison County" which I'm sure probably has some history on the Courthouse in it. Perhaps someone on this List has the book and can check it for you. I know that my library has the book, and I'll look at it the next time I'm there. If there's anything in there on the history of the courthouse, I'll let you know, ok? Later! Bettye mailto:bkwofc@i1.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda McDowell" <limcd@earthlink.net> To: <MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: [MOMADISO-L] Fredericktown Courthouse > I was lucky enough to see and photograph the outside of the Fredericktown Courthouse in Oct 1999 (it was closed for the weekend. > > I have two people in my Moyers/Kelley and related Madison Co. family database that are said to have been carpenters on the courthouse. Does anyone know of a booklet/flyer that has a brief history of the courthouse? > > Linda McDowell in sunny California >

Part III.. Fredericktown.. from THE HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, by R.S. Douglass. Page 63-64 The first people who came to Madison county were miner and their stay was ordinarily transitory; the first men who came to settle on a farm within the county was John CALLAWAY, who came from Kentucky in 1799, and obtained a grant on Saline creek near the head of the Little St Francois about the same time the sons of Nicholas LACHANCE settled on Castor creek. Their father lived at New Bourbon in St Genevieve coiunty. Other early settlers were William EASUM and James and Samuel CAMPBELL, who at some time before 1803, built cabins near the St Francois and cultivated the land. John WALTHER came to the county in 1882 as did Christopher ANTHONY, John L PETTIT, Daniel PHILLIPS and William and Thomas CRAWFORD. (note: Think the dat 1882 is supposed to be 1822, as I have seen info on a Daniel Phillips prior to1882.. mc). In 1800 the Spanish suthorities granted four hundred arpents of land to thirteen individuals, the land lying between Saline creek and the Little St Francois. On the lans so granted a settlement was soon made which was called St. Michael; it is now the town of Fredericktown. The early residents were Peter CHEVALIER, Paul, Andrew and Baptiste De GUIRE, four brothers, whose name was CALLIOT, called also LACHANCE, Gabriel NICOLLO, Pierre VIRIAT and three other whos names are not known. These settlers all came from other settlements in this district. They engaged in farming and also in lead mining at Mine LaMotte which is only a few miles distant. There are a couple more chapters on churches & the colleges, etc.. this is all on the town itself. Well, now that was fun... I have had this book for over 5 years... and discovered 2 Campbells that are not mentioned in the index... since there are over 1,000 pages.. probably would have never noticed them.. Thanks!!!!! Marge NOTE: This book is not same as Goodspeed's History of SE MO... it is by a different author, and has much of same info.. and also some info not in the Goodspeed's volumes.

http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/uedivis/ue6061.htm http://www.capemo.com/history/ http://ozarks.smsu.edu/LocPage/County/Madison/index.html http://www.rosecity.net/civilwar/mc.html http://www.umr.edu/~whmcinfo/shelf18/r441/info.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda McDowell <limcd@earthlink.net> To: <MOMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:22 AM Subject: [MOMADISO-L] Fredericktown Courthouse > I was lucky enough to see and photograph the outside of the Fredericktown Courthouse in Oct 1999 (it was closed for the weekend. > > I have two people in my Moyers/Kelley and related Madison Co. family database that are said to have been carpenters on the courthouse. Does anyone know of a booklet/flyer that has a brief history of the courthouse? > > Linda McDowell in sunny California > >