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/1392.2 Message Board Post: This is what I posted on Gasconade County. The book is mostly history but I will look in it to see if any of your names are listed. Give me a couple of days to research. Taken from the book: "Goodspeed's History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri" History of Missouri chapters, page 186 giving, "Dates of the organization of the counties, origin of their names, etc." Gasconade {county name}--Organized November 25, 1820. Named for the river; reduced to its present limits (nearly) in 1835. Hermann was laid out in 1837, and became the county seat in 1845. NOTE: This book was originally published in 1888. My reprint is from 1970. Information given here was from the original time period so county seats may have changed.