Tom.. If your relatives are buried near Thornfield,MO they have to be in unmarked graves...I was born within two miles of that community and have spent the past decade researching the area, upgrading and enumerating the cemeteries throughout that end of the county....my book of cemetery enumeration does not show any DENTS being listed as buried in Ozark County...I have been to Pottersville,MO several times......please advise if I may be if further assistance.... Mitch Haskins ---------- >From: Tomjoyd@aol.com >To: MOOZARK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MOOZARK] MOOZARK-DIGEST VO #34 >Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2002, 11:19 AM > > Hello Everyone: > Hope that I didn't miss a roll call. There sure has been a lot of >activity on the list. I am a descendant of Joab and Clarinda Matkin Dent who >appeared in the 1850 Census for Ozark County Missouri. Three of their seven >children migrated to Kansas in the mid 1850s and we have found no evidence or >documents to substantiate the disposition of their parents. Family legend >indicates that they died and were buried near their farm possibly located >near Thornfield, Ozark County or Cureall, Howell County. > The Dent family was closely associated with the Endicott family >during the early westward migrations of the19th Century. Joab and Clarinda's >daughter Elizabeth was married to Samuel Endicott. Their son William, my >first Great Grandfather was married to Mary"Polly" Endicott. Daughter Mary >was married to Joseph Endicott who was killed at Baxter Springs, Kansas in >1863. The 1860 Census for Howell County, shows minor sons John C. and Lewis >Dent residing in the household of sister Elizabeth Dent Endicott and husband >Samuel. This would indicate that Joab and Clarinda probably died sometime >during the 1850s or perhaps left the area leaving minor children behind. > I have studied the plats of first land owners of Howell County, >Missouri and an area of real interest is Sections 4 & 9 of Township 23 - >Range 10, NW 1/4. Sixteen names appear in these sections and nine of them >are Endicotts including two owned by Elizabeth Dent Endicott. Her brother, >John C. Dent owned 160 acres or the NE quarter of Section 4. If Joab and >Clarinda were buried on their farm, their graves are probably located in >either F.C. 253, E 45029 or E 44687. I Have no idea where Township 23 is >located, but perhaps it is someplace between Thornfield or Cureall. > John C. Dent and Elizabeth Dent Endicott are buried in the cemetery in >Pottersville, Howell County. John C. was married to Rebecca Tabor, so this >may be of interest to the researcher listed in message 6 of VO 34. John C. >served in Company K 16th Regiment Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War and I >have obtained the pension paper pertaining to him and Rebecca. Reference: >"Ozark County Missouri in 1850 compiled by Nancy Todd Weber". Rebecca Tabor >was the daughter of Andy and Ruhaney Collins Tabor. Andy came to Missouri >from East Tennessee in 1840. There is a little more information on Ruhaney. >They are both buried in the cemetery in Pottersville and I can provide birth >and death dates if the researcher wants this information. John C. and Rebecca >had a son named Andrew V. Dent, born 18 August 1874, Died 29 July 1893. He >is also buried in the cemetery in Pottersville. > I have been following the migration routes from Maryland to Franklin >County Virginia to Missouri. Recently the Franklin County List has contained >a lot of information involving the Turner name (Message 3 of VO 34). There >are five Turner families listed in the 1850 Ozark Census, # 68, 75, 76, 77 & >89. > >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 >