Tom... I have spoken with all of may aged relatives and local historians and no one can tell me that they have ever heard of your Dents being in the T'field area....certainly does not mean that they weren't just means that my sources have never heard of them...I note that Nancie Todd Weber places the families in Ozark County in 1850 and the two youngest children with an older sister just as you have stated previously...do you know exactly where in the T'field area your ancestors might have lived....maybe a deed record or homestead record might be found. For almost the past 100 years my grand father, my father and now my brother and I have farmed and ran livestock up Little Creek about 2/12 miles from where it empties into the Little North Fork of the White River just below where my Uncle Hervil Gaulding has farmed for over 70 years. We have three other immediate family members who own land and operate large farms in the Thornfield area so maybe I would know exactly where your family lived...Who was the neighbor that he could not get along with?---------- > From: Tomjoyd@aol.com > Reply To: MOOZARK-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:48 PM > To: MOOZARK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MOOZARK] Thornfield, Missouri/Joab & Clarinda Dent > > Mitch Haskins > Thanks for your information on Thornfield, Missouri. You sent me an > e-mail in August 2001 and indicated that you were going to check with your > father Dr. John Wesley Haskins, his sister and a brother -in-law. I sent an > e-mail to you at the High School in Mounds, Illinois, but you must not have > received it. > I have been in recent contact with Nancie Todd Weber who is the author > of Ozark County Missouri in 1850 and also 1860. I have ordered both of her > books and I will look for any comments on the Haskins/Holts families. > Right now I have no explanation on the information that Joab and > Clarinda Dent lived near Thornfield, Missouri. I have been told that their > daughter Elizabeth Dent Endicott was the administrator of their estate. > Right now I don't even know that they died in Missouri, but that has to be > assumed. They were residing in Ozark County during the 1850 Census and that > is the last that we know of them. Two of their minor children were residing > with their sister Elizabeth Dent Endicott during the 1860 Census of Howell > County. If Joab and Clarinda died prior to the reduction of Ozark County in > 1857, then any court records of them may have been destroyed. I have > recently looked at an Ozark County Map circa 1855 that was drawn for B.F. > Shumard, state geologist. Arrows have been drawn on the map to mark the > reduction in boundaries north and east. Apparently all or a portion of > Township 23 became part of Howell County in 1857. This was an area that > encompassed Lower Spring Creek and as I indicated in Digest VO 34, Elizabeth > Dent Endicott was listed as the owner of two pieces of property located in > Sections 4 & 9 of Township 23. If she inherited this property from Joab and > Clarinda, then perhaps they are buried somewhere on that property. Pure > speculation on my part. > Do you or anyone on this list have any information about Cureall. As > near as I can determine, this is about thirty miles straight line from > Thornfield. I have been told that early pioneers including the Endicotts > settled around the town. I don't know if Cureall is in Township 23. If so, > how close are sections 4 & 9 to the town. > Any information will be appreciated. > > Tom Dent > Vancouver, Washington > > > ==== MOOZARK Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ==============================> > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >