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