Just realized that the JOPLIN GLOBE is online. There is also a link to the Carthage Paper at http://www.joplinglobe.com Does anyone know if there is an on-line paper for Newton County. Still hoping to find connections to my elusive Bartlett Isley of NC > TX > MO found in the 1860 Newton County Census in Van Buren Township, father of Stanford Pryor Isley. ALSO, Jackson (Fitz) Randolph, father of Cordelia Vashti Randolph, b. 1861 somewhere in Missouri...maybe Reynolds County as I found land records of a purchase there in 1860. Jackson is the son of Samuel and Zepporah (Davis) FitzRandolph of Ohio. Stanford Pryor and Cordelia Vashti Isley were the parents of Lula Ethel Isley, m. Benjamin Oscar Corner of Van Buren Twp, Newton County 1908 in Carthage. For more info, you can check my webpage below. Mary Pollard in SoCal http://community.webtv.net/pollama/MaryPollardsFamily