This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chambers Neeper Stephens Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2350 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Friday, October 16, 1874, p. 4 Married CHAMBERS - NEEPER In this city at the residence of Mr. Humes, October 15th, 1874, by Rev. Mr. Stephens, Mr. William H. Chambers to Miss Dora Neeper, all of this city. Fast and thick come the candidates for matrimonial felicity, and it has been our pleasant duty of late to record the unions of many a loved friend who labored earnestly in the ranks of single blessedness. One by one they fall in the brave fight, until now or most earnest champion has succumbed and now, we sincerely wish the chamber of our friend may never be lonely, but gladdened and brightened by his choice, may they resound with mirth, happiness and prosperity. To the mansion he has erected may other chambers be added until the noble edifice is complete, and the surrounding shrubbery afford him shrubbery for a given and happy old age.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turnham McClean Van Wagner Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2349 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Thursday, October 15th, 1874, p. 4 Married TURNHAM - MCCLEAN In this city, on Wednesday evening, October 14, 1874, by the Rev. J.M. Van Wagner, Miss Nellie J. McClean and Mr. Charles S. Turnham, both of Sedalia. We extend to the happy couple our heartiest congratulations, and hope that their future may be bright with every happiness, and that prosperity, joy and peace may be the constant attendants of their domestic hearth. In the great stream of life that flows unceasing onward to the goal of immorality may their bark glide smooth, and may their voyage be wafted with winds propitious, o'er the calmest seas that ever bore the burden of fair hopes in the safe harbor of full fruition. (Followe by a long poem dedicated to Mrs. Turnham on her wedding eve.)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2348 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Wednesday, October 14, 1874, p. 4 Resolution from the Jefferson Grange of Johnson county, upon the death of Amanda Williams, wife of a member.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McIntosh Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2347 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Wednesday, October 14, 1874, p. 4 Obituary With sorrow, I am called to chronicle the death of one that was near and dear to me by the ties of consanquinity, Talmage Peirce, infant son of J.J. and Fannie S. McIntosh, passed from the sorrows of earth to the joy of Heaven, on the evening of October 8th, aged 7 months and 28 days. My little pet had just come to know me well, and at eve to greet me with his tiny laugh, but, alas! sickness seized upon his mortal part and all that human aid or medical skill could do was of no avail, death entered and there was no defense, his unerring shafts laid low the idol of the household. (followed by long poem.) October 13th, 1874, J.S.S.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McSchooler Pope Russell Kavanaugh Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2346 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, October 13, 1874, p. 4 MCSCHOOLER - POPE In Fulton, Missouri, on October 7th, at the residence of John W. Russell, by Rev. H.H. Kavanaugh, Mr. W. Frank McSchooler to Miss Nettie Pope.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rush Miligan Van Wagner Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2345 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, October 13, 1874, p. 4 Married RUSH - MILIGAN In this city on Sunday evening, the 11th inst., at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. J.M. Van Wagner, Mr. Henry C. Rush to Miss Hannah E. Miligan, all of this city.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pitts Scott Wright Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2344 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, October 13, 1874, p. 4 Married PITTS - SCOTT At the Christian church, in Houstonia, on the 11th inst., at 7:30 p.m., by Elder J.B. Wright, Mr. William A. Pitts to Miss Katie Scott, all of Pettis county.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Evans Chambers Joplin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2302.3 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Wednesday, October 14, 1874, p. 4 In Memoriam But a short time since the city papers informed us of the death of one of our oldest citizens, Dr. Thomas Evans, at his residence, in the town of Smithton, Pettis County, Mo. His death was not unexpected by his friends, as he had been failing for months. Still the death of such a man cannot but produce a thread of heartache in the community where his person was so long known, and his presence so often felt, as the harbinger of relief and comfort to the anxious attendant on a bed of sickness and suffering. Dr. Evans was for many years the only educated physician in this part of Pettis county, having settled in this county in 1842, at a time when a few scattered settlements along the borders of the creeks making the population of the county. From the time of his advent his practices became extensive and owing to the sparsely settled population, very laborious. Among his patrons he was universally loved for his plain and unpretentious manners; his ardent devotion to his profession, and his tender regard for the whims and caprices (so trying to the busy practioner) of his patients. But few of his earlier patrons are among us now, most of them having preceded the Doctor to the better land; but the few that remains speak of him in terms of the warmest praise. To the young aspirant for professional success, the Doctor was always affable, courteous, never regarding him as a rival, but as one to whom the helping hand of age and experience was due, and by him always cheerfully extended. The last two or three years of the Doctor's life were years of patient, uncomplaining suffering. No especial disease, but the general break-down of health, incident somewhat, to approaching age; but more especially the result of long, continued and frequent exposure necessary in an extended practice among a scattered population. Dr. Evans was born in Prince George County, Maryland on the 21st of October, 1805, wanting but a few days, when he died, of completing his 69th year. He read medicine under Dr. H________(illegible) of Washington City and graduated at Columbia College, District of Columbia, in 1827. Married his first wife (the mother of Dr. Edward C. Evans), Miss D.A. Chambers in 1828 and in 1832 emigrated to Missouri, settling in Cooper county, in whas has since been known as the Walker settlement. Having lost his first wife, he married Mrs. Susan J. Joplin, subsequently the mother of Nancy Evans, in 1837, and moved to Pettis county in 1842, where he continued to reside until his death. Immediately after the organization of the Pettis Couny medical society, Dr. Evans became a member, and when his health permitted, was a regular attendant at its meetings, often participating in its discussions, giving to its members the benefit of his long experience in the treatment of the diseases peculiar to the county, at his death the society passed resolutions highly commendatory of his standing as a physician and excellence as a man. His death was calm and peaceful, in full possession of his mental faculties to the last moment, after talking to his friends and family, of the firm and blissful hope of a happy immortality that enabled him to meet, the long expected hour of parting, with not only the fortitude of the philosophy, but with the brighter, happier hope of the christian. Requiescat in pace. M.D.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACE/1179.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for the same. Nina Crochran that married Glen E. Reno. Can't seem to contact you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2343 Message Board Post: Sophia Brown passed away at her daughter's home in Sedalia on April 28, 1910. She was buried at Mt. Herman according to her death certificate. Her husband, George, died between 1890 and 1900. My thought is that he's probably buried in Mt. Herman as well. Online lists of the cemetery don't list Browns. Anyone know if there are records available that would show burials? Thanks!

Does anyone have these Joneses in their research? Wm M Jones George town, Pettis, Missouri C O Jones Heaths Creek, Pettis, Missouri James M Jones Heaths Creek, Pettis, Missouri John S Jones Heaths Creek, Pettis, Missouri I'd like to know the maiden names of their wives; and confirm whether or not their father was Edward Jones b. abt. 1794 in Kentucky. Are the JONES above related to the JONES below. Lewis/Louis and Nancy Jones on the 1860 census from Maryland. Lewis Jones 62 Nancy Jones 60 Thomas Jones 33 Ellis Jones 31 Phrania Jones 23 Mary Jones 21 Joseph Jones 18 In 1850 -- they lived in Brooke Co., VA Lewis Jones Age: 50 Estimated birth year: abt 1800 Birth place: Maryland Gender: Male Home in 1850 District 3, Brooke, Virginia In 1870 -- Lewis' sons Thomas, Ellis and Joseph each own $7300 in real estate -- and have a servant living with them named Ellen who is 20. The live next door to Thomas Jarnette (born in Alabama) and the Grinsteads. I just noticed that there are several JONES from Maryland also in Cooper Co. Traci Wilson-Kleekamp

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACE/327.343 Message Board Post: new email address glnnda@hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2342 Message Board Post: Just want to thank all those who responded to my call for help. It has already proven to be helpful. County message boards are great. I appreciate all of you. Laura

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2340.1 Message Board Post: The Mo State Archives has the death records from 1910-1955 indexed and online. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ The ones from 1910 - 1924 are available for viewing. The also have pre-1910 deaths and births online. This info was gathered from the county records. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/ Hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dejarnette, Jones, Thomson, & Sacre Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2341 Message Board Post: While doing a little research today in the library I ran across a transcribed letter to Charles O. Jones of Pettis Co., MO from someone who could be his sister? I didn't think the letter matched who I was looking for in Pettis Co., but when I got home I realized.. oh darn.. I should have copied that letter. Anyway -- the letter refers to a cousin DeJarnette in the letter. I was looking for descendants of Edward Jones.. who appears to be the father of John S., Charles O. William M or (W), and James M. Jones. I am attempting to sort out the slaves that may have belonged to this JONES family and there are many. I'm interested in their allied family in Pettis. On the DeJarnette side -- I see that John DeJarnette married Julia Ann Clopton -- looks like the DeJarnette's are from Mechlenberg VA. I wonder if they are somehow connected to the SWEPSON or BOYD families from the same area. Also of interest -- the Dejarnette, Jones families are neighbors to David Thomson (who owned slaves that I am tracing) and the Hopkins. I believe there is a THOMSON/HOPKINS marriage via Mentor Thomson's daughter Bettie who married James S. Hopkins. I wondered if the THOMSONS have a tie by blood or marriage to the JONES, and CLOPTON families. There are some young SACRES living with Edward JONES and his son CHARLES O JONES in 1850. Any thoughts or background on the SACRES? More importantly -- can anyone tell me something about Edward Jones -- where did he come from etc. I assume that the Jones boys I noted above are his sons -- as he is living with them on the 1850-1870 census -- and is widowed and on at least one census he is enumerated as an overseer. Traci Wilson-Kleekamp

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gehrs, Wahlers, Hirschvogel, Monsees Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2340 Message Board Post: I am trying to find out the surname of the mother of two Hirschvogel sisters who died in Pettis County, and who are buried in Smithton Cemetery. Their father is Michael Hirschvogel and the mother's first name is Theresia, both from Austria. It is believed that the mother Theresia died sometime after immigrating to the U.S. and before the Hirschvogel family settled in MO, as no one has found any record of her except her name on the ship's list. I am hoping that the parents' names are on the death certificates. These sisters are: 1. Theresia/Theresa Lumpee b. 4-26-1836 Austria d. 1-12-1904 Pettis County 2. Julianne/Julia A. Lutjin b. 6-6-1941 Austria d. 6-20-1929 Pettis County If anyone in the area has access to the death certificates of these sisters, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I don't know where these records are kept. Thanks. Laura

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rennison, Winfield, Roberts, Robinson, Yarnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/545.588 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of Hattie Myrtle and Wm. Alonzo. They were my great-grandparents as I am the granddaughter of Alice Virginia Roberts Bennett. I am also researching the Rennison-Roberts line and I do have some information. Briefly: William's parents were Stephen R. Roberts and Mary Elizabeth. Wm. Alonzo had a twin, Wilbur Lonne, a brother named John "Emanual" and two sisters, Sarah Elida Vietth Goodrich Spangler and Bessie Roberts Sparks. Hattie Myrtle is buring in Crown Hill Cemetery in Sedalia having died May 1, 1962. Her parents are James Winfield Rennison and Elizabeth Rennison. James' parents were James Rennison and Sarah Robinson. Elizabeth's parents were Joshua or Joseph Rennison and Nancy Yarnell. Hope this helps. email me if you need more info or have more info.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/545.550.608 Message Board Post: Are you related to Olia Mae Nicholson? I am her great-niece. Her sister was my grandmother Alice Virginia.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/545.587.1 Message Board Post: Mable married Les Stephenson and they own the Stephenson Restaurant in Independence, Missouri. They also own a home in Florida. They have a daughter named Leslie Gay. I am Mable's great-niece.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Houston, hampton Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACE/1900.1 Message Board Post: I was raised on a farm near Houstonia about a mile from the cemetery in which Thomas Houston and his family are buried. Here is a quote from a 1919 history of the town: Pettis County, Missouri 1919 HOUSTONIA Township by Mark McGruder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This township derives its name from its principal town. Thomas F. Houston laid out the town of Houstonia, which was named in honor of its founder. Land in this township was sold by the Government from 12 ½ cents to $1.25 per acre. The Lexington branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway traverses this township from section 10 northwest to section 19. Thomas F. Houston was born July 30 1818 at Houstonville (named in honor of his grandfather), Iredell County, North Carolina; received a collegiate education under the instruction of Marshal Ney; adopted the profession of law; admitted to the bar June 1840; and located at Statesville in his native county. In 1845 he married Miss Mary M Hampton a relative of the Hampton families of Virginia and South Carolina. He emigrated from Alabama to near the present site of Bunceton, Cooper County MO in 1846 and devoted his whole energies to agricultural pursuits and stock raising. In 1851 he removed to the norther portion of Pettis County,! near where he subsequently located the town of Houstonia, named in his honor. Houstonia is one of the later townships organized in the county. It was originally the eastern half of Blackwater township and remained thus until 1844, when it became in the new arrangement part of Blackwater, Mt. Sterling and Elk Fork. It remained parts of these three townships until 1873, when in the new organization Houstonia was organized in the northern part of the county and is bounded on the north by Saline County, on the east by Longwood and Hughesville townships on the south by Hughesville township and on the west by Blackwater township. It has thirty sections or 19,200 acres of land. It consist mostly of beautiful, rolling prairie, as fertile as any in the county. Its streams of water are Heath's creek, which rises in the southern central portion of the county and finds its way in a northeasterly direction through the township; Buffalo Creek and another small branch or tow rise in the township and flow north into the Blackwater, and a few small branches rise in th! e western part of the township and flow west into the south for of Blackwater. Henry Guier settled here about 1834. He came from North Carolina. Bartlett Williams came in 1840. John L. Scott came about 1837, at an early date. John beatty came at an early day. A N Redd was another early settler. Cable Edmondson was an early settler. He came to the township from Maryland, and gave his attention to farming and stock-raising. He had one of the first, if not the first, herd of fine blooded stock in the county. A H Wilkinson settled at the head-waters of Heath's creek as early as 1840. He came from the Old Dominion and lived in the township until his death. There were three early day churches in this township, of which the Christian Church of Houstonia is the largest. It was organized in 1870 by Elder Samuel McDaniel. Joseph B Wright was one of the early day preachers, as was also Charles Shouse. Among the most able who filled the pulpit of this church was Rev. G W Longan, father of our distinguished citizen, Judge George F. Longan of Sedalia. The writer is pleased to state that the father is now living comfortably in his old age and happy in his views of the future, with Judge Longan, his son, on East Broadway, this city. The first church of this denomination was built in 1871 and dedicated in August of that year by John B Wright. The M E Church South, of Houstonia, was organized by Rev. W B McFarland in February 1869. Their first house of worship was built in 1870 by Rev. Joseph M. Kelley, a frame building costing $1,700 and was dedicated by Elder M M Pugh, in December of the same year. The Christian Church at Houstonia is a modern, up-to-date brick building. Rev. Phillip Stark is the minister in charge. The church has a membership of 75 and a Sunday school with an attendance of 50. Houstonia Baptist is one of the old churches of the county, having been organized in 1866 under the name of Hickory Grove. Later the organization was called Wake Forest, and in 1887 the organization was moved to Houstonia, where the present church is located. The building is new, modern and up to date. Revs. G M Hyde, J M Plannett, Dr. H M Richardson, I B Dodson, W A Wilson, O Jeffries, E James, Dr. R K Maiden W J Lester and G C Davis have ministered to this church since 1882. Church membership is about 70 with Sunday school attendance of 50. The Southern Methodist Church, at Houstonia, was organized in 1870 by Rev. W B McFarland. Rev. George E Hargis is the present minister. The following have served the church as ministers: Revs. W B McFarland, Jeptah Kelly, A M Rader, W S Woodward, W M Bewley, Warren DeHaven J B Woolridge, J J Hill, W T Eastwood, J Y Busby, A L Houston, W S Woodward, H L Anderson, C A Emmons, C T Wallace, J C Cross, W J Snow, J A Jared, J R Hedgesm, W J Patison, J W Ezell, W F Wagoner, B A Powell, B V Altom. The present minister Rev. Hargis appointed in 1915. This church has a membership of 197, with Sunday school attendance of 170. Houstonia, in this township, was destroyed completely by a storm. It destroyed every store and business house, the depot and about 20 dwelling houses, injuring many of the citizens. Houstonia township is proud of her schools. They work under the consolidated District Law, and Hazel Hill school is the only school outside of the consolidated district. It has a fair enrollment. The Consolidated District No. 1 is composed of the following old district: Houstonia, Section, Black, Guier, Prigmore and Higgins. Houstonia township has an excellent high school in Houstonia. [Transcribed by Laura Paxton.]