Here is a site with a lot of good history and pictures for Carter, Ripley, Shannon and Dent counties. Kay Emmons Hale The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/ozar/hrs1.htm

Patricia Read your post with the question on the Murrell surname? First name that came to mind was MERRILL. Might check that route. Bernie Moore-Knowles Papa'aloa, Hawai'i "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to question my honesty." ........Will Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia" <pjmata@cox.net> To: <MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 1:06 PM Subject: [MORIPLEY] 1820 murrells > Does any one have any idea of who this Murrell might be. Lawrence county used to be where Ripley CO MO is now and included Randolph CO AR as well as what is now Lawrence CO MO. > > I think this is why my gggf used to say born and raised in MO and Died in AR but never moved. Must have gotten reversed over the years.. as the home place stayed the same but he did not move. > > > However, I have never seen this name before in any of my research.. What other spelling might it be? Where did he come from? where did he go? > > Patricia Murrell Mat > pjmata@cox.net > > > > > Murrells, Elisha AR LAWRENCE CO. ARKANSAS TERR. 004 1829 TAX > > > ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe to MoRipley GenWeb > mailto:MORIPLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > mailto:MORIPLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

Thanks for helping out Peggy. My own gr-grandma Ellen (McCullough-Payne) Freeman is buried there. My sister & I visited there in 1994 and found it to be a very pretty and well maintained cemetery. Pam Smith

I can get a photo of the tombstone this weekend (thought I had one, but guess not), but I can tell you, on both John and Kitty's tombstones there are no dates, only the years. John - 1855-1941 and Kitty 1857-1914. My uncle Carl Brooks is President of the Macedonia Cemetery Association (has been for many years) and he has never been able to find any records of Macedonia Cemetery burials. Catharine Ann "Kitty" Thompson Reeves was a sister to my g-grandmother. Peggy Brooks Cannady pcannady@centurytel.net -----Original Message----- From: Pamandgar@aol.com [mailto:Pamandgar@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:13 PM To: MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MORIPLEY] John E. Reeves cemetery stone Hi Listers, I received this request, but since I don't live in Ripley Co. I can't help. Is there someone else who does live in the area who might be available to take a run out to the Macedonia Cemetery for Pearl? I did tell her she'd have to get the death cert herself. Thanks Pamela G. Smith Gresham, OR snip>>>>Macedonia Cemetery lookup request: I am needing a burial and death record on my great grandfather buried here. His name is John E. Reeves 1855-1941. Could you possible get me a picture of his head stone and a death certificate. I know that the certificate would cost and I will send a check for it. Or at least the burial record from the cemetery if I have to order the death certificate myself. If I have the date he was buried it would make it easier to get the certificate. You can contact me at : fuzzyjwl11@aol.com Thank You, Pearl Walker >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snip ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== Password Central - to change, check passwords,list memberships, post-it notes, and gedcoms submitted <a href="http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/">http://passwordcentral.rootsweb. com/</a> ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Hi Listers, I received this request, but since I don't live in Ripley Co. I can't help. Is there someone else who does live in the area who might be available to take a run out to the Macedonia Cemetery for Pearl? I did tell her she'd have to get the death cert herself. Thanks Pamela G. Smith Gresham, OR snip>>>>Macedonia Cemetery lookup request: I am needing a burial and death record on my great grandfather buried here. His name is John E. Reeves 1855-1941. Could you possible get me a picture of his head stone and a death certificate. I know that the certificate would cost and I will send a check for it. Or at least the burial record from the cemetery if I have to order the death certificate myself. If I have the date he was buried it would make it easier to get the certificate. You can contact me at : fuzzyjwl11@aol.com Thank You, Pearl Walker >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snip

From Rootsweb's archives. I felt many of you, the newbies and even some of us old hounds, need to know this info....... Jackie A primary record or source is one created by an eyewitness of an event. Whether the writer records the event as it occurs or describes it at a later time does not change the fact that a record created by an eyewitness at any time is a primary source. However, the period of time between the event and the recording of the event could dramatically affect the source's accuracy. Examples of primary sources are a midwife's journal entry describing the birth of a child she delivered; a christening entry in a parish register, recorded by the priest who performed the rite or by the parish clerk who witnessed it. The oral testimony of a mother describing the birth of one of her children would also be a primary source for that child's birth. A secondary source is based upon evidence gathered after an event occurred by a person who was not an eyewitness. A death certificate is a secondary source of birth data as well as marriage data, although it is a primary source for verifying a person's death date and place. A daughter's testimony about the date and place of her parents' marriage is a secondary source because it is based on her knowledge of documentary evidence and the observation of when her parents celebrated their wedding anniversary. Secondary sources are as valuable as primary sources if they contain accurate descriptions of events. In general, however, primary sources are more reliable descriptions of events, especially if the eyewitness recorded his or her testimony at the time of the event. Dates and personal and place names can be erroneously recorded in both primary and secondary sources. When several conflicting names or dates exist, the researcher should determine the earliest occurrences of the names and dates in primary sources. Normally evidence from primary sources would take precedence. If a census reported a person's age as 20 in 1850 and yet their birth record gave 1835 as the date, the birth record would take precedence. Nevertheless, sometimes a primary source may be wrong. When in doubt compare primary sources with other sources, especially records based on the testimony of close relatives of eyewitnesses: children, siblings, spouses and parents. When verifying oral or documentary evidence, it is not necessary to evaluate every date, name and place. A researcher can take a sample — one in ten, for example — of the dates, names and places found in a genealogy or an interview and check them against primary sources: birth, marriage and death records are examples. Often during interviews oral historians will encounter descriptions of events in a person's life or in the history of a family that are turning points or points of contention or controversy. There may be no single right interpretation of these events. In this case it is best to interview two or three other persons about these events, trying always to find witnesses who were present at the time of the event. If eyewitnesses are no longer alive, the researcher should look for journals and letters from these eyewitnesses. If no written testimony from them exists, the researcher should interview two or three persons who had long and intimate contact with the eyewitnesses. -- "At the birth of the Sun, and his brother the Moon, their Mother died. So the Sun gave to the earth her body from which was to spring all life, And he drew forth from her breast the stars and he threw them into the night sky to remind him of her soul." Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees <http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/> CC: Ripley Co MO GenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/> CC: Harringtongen <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> - a genealogy site for Harringtons and collateral lines.

Hi Jo, Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, but we just had a Larkin Reunion this weekend. This is the first I have had a chance to read email. I am sorry to say no, but there is relation that I am researching in Ripley County by the surnames of Proctor, Schmitt and Carter. Carter county is names after one of my husbands ancestors, Zimri Allen Carter. Dr Samuel Atwater Proctor and his son Dr. Carter Atwater Proctor were physicians in Doniphan MO. Dolly Belle Schmitt married Dr Carter A Proctor after World War 1 and lived in Doniphan. I am doing research right now on Sullivan City, Franklin County MO., Doniphan, Ripley County MO., and Carter County. So far it has been slow going, but the people in the Ripley County message boards are the best I have had the pleasure of meeting. Linda

Does any one have any idea of who this Murrell might be. Lawrence county used to be where Ripley CO MO is now and included Randolph CO AR as well as what is now Lawrence CO MO. I think this is why my gggf used to say born and raised in MO and Died in AR but never moved. Must have gotten reversed over the years.. as the home place stayed the same but he did not move. However, I have never seen this name before in any of my research.. What other spelling might it be? Where did he come from? where did he go? Patricia Murrell Mat pjmata@cox.net Murrells, Elisha AR LAWRENCE CO. ARKANSAS TERR. 004 1829 TAX

My gggf was born in MO in 1820 or so the census records after 1850 report. I believe some of the family may have lived in St Louis or Jefferson Co MO. between 1820 and roughly 1840. After this I believe they may have returned to KY or TN. In your searches if you see any Land, Tax, Census, or other records that have the Murrell or any other spelling that might be Murrell please forward them to me. The name has been spelled Morrell, Merrell, Mirrell, Merril, Merl, Morrow, Murell, Murrel, and even Murret.. I guess the two L looked like a bent T... My gggf was named William A Murrell born about December 24, 1820 place unknown. He was a chair and furniture maker, a JP and post master at Dry Spring, MO for about 50 years. He appears to have stayed in Ripley Co MO after 1850 until he died about Dec 1895. He is believed to have a brother born in MO 1824 place unknown. His name was John Bartlett or J B Murrell. All of J B's brother were chair or cabinet makers too.. The only Murrell chair makers I have ever found. That is why I believe they were from the same family. These siblings are listed on the 1860 census in Weakley CO TN. J B was early on a broom maker and later a magistrate. Richard Murrell is who I thought to be my William's father but another researcher ventured to suggest that it might have been Richard's uncle a William Murrell. This William was a brother to Benjamin Murrell, Richard's father. William A Murrell had one surviving son James Harvey Murrell. He also lived in Ripley Co MO and Randolph CO AR.. state line changed they did not move. The story in the family is that the rest of the family moved on... west...... but no one now knows where.. I found some Murrells in Howell Co MO that I believe came from the same line of Murrells..... so it is possible they only went that far.. not to CA or TX.. and some had suggested.. but anything is possible. The Laclede CO MO Murrells seem to be a different line. There is Matty listed in land records as the mother of three heirs of William Jackson. William Jackson deceased private in Pendleton's Comp of Regiment of Riflemen ... received 130 acres being South East of 1/4 section Eighteen of Township fifty four north in Range Eighteen west in the Tract appointed by the Acts aforesaid for Military Bounties of the Territory of MO to have and hold the said Quarter Section of land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Matty Murrell mother of three other heirs of William .. 22 day of Jan 1819. Number 8833. No county given.. I originally thought that William's last name was Jackson, now I realize his name may have been William Jackson MURRELL.............. does any one have any idea of where this land is located and what happened to it or how I could find out.. or what happened to these people? Or if indeed Matty was a Jackson and married a Murrell............. any Marriages that would give a hint? I have never found one of any c! emetery records for William Jackson etc. What happened to this family? In my gggf belongings there was a leather pouch or billfold that had the tooled name of Richard Murrell on it... I have never been able to associate with certainty to any Richard Murrell other than the son of Benjamin Murrell who died in TN. It is possible it was an uncle or some other keep sake.. but there was no stitching as we have today with billfolds.. it was all flat cut and folded leather about the size of a legal envelope of today. The uncle that had it got sick with in days and died. The Murrell bible and billfold and other items are all lost now. In St Louis Co I found some early mention in city directory of Murrell Cabinet makers.. I have never been able to find that website again. If any one knows of such please copy me in. I believe that William A Murrell was in KY in early 1840 as two daughters are listed as being born there. NO marriage every found for him. These two daughter were born before his marriage to Lucinda Foy if the date in the Murrell bible is correct. However, the girls are always listed as MURRELLs not FOYs. Were they his or orphan Murrells? Once the family settled in Dry Springs, MO we have essentially been the Lost Murrell Family! any help is appreciated. Patricia Murrell Mata pjmata@cox.net (Hit the ole delete key if you have already seen this)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Somraty Yarbrough" <ryarbrough09@charter.net> To: <MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: unsubscribe > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jo harris" <bunnyjo35@charter.net> > To: <MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: [MORIPLEY] Reminicent History of the Ozark Region > > >> Hi Linda >> >> My Aunt Lois Dodd, Married Aubrey "Jim" Webb, they lived in Ripley Co. >> Mo. >> Your name sounds like I have heard before. Do you know Audrey Webb? >> >> Jo >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <Lmacomas@aol.com> >> To: <MORIPLEY-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:07 PM >> Subject: Re: [MORIPLEY] Reminicent History of the Ozark Region >> >> >>> If you could look up Rawlings or Webb, I would appreciate it. Thank >>> you. >>> >>> Linda Rawlings >>> >>> >>> ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== >>> To Unsubscribe to MoRipley GenWeb >>> mailto:MORIPLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe >>> mailto:MORIPLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe >>> >>> ============================== >>> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >>> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >>> >> >> >> ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== >> Password Central - to change, check passwords,list memberships, post-it >> notes, and gedcoms submitted >> <a >> href="http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/">http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/</a> >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

http://www.pioneerindex.com/manymouths.html Sorry did not realize it was an add for a book.. here is what I meant to send. pat

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Hi list, I spoke with Jackie and she gave me permission to post that I have a new site at MyFamily.com called Ripley County MO and Allied Families. It is a free site to all members, where we can post photos, histories, trees, news, and questions to other members of the site, about allied families or history of Ripley County MO. The site is about 6 weeks old and we have around 20 members who have become real active in the site. We have even be able to help some find some info on their families and they are thrilled to be involved. If you are interested in becoming a member, please email me privately at: becdavis@fidnet.com I will then send you an invitation to the site and then you can log in any time and as often as you wish as a member. With the great wealth of info from this list and from others who have web sites for Ripley County MO and the new site at MyFamily.com, we should be able to help each other out a lot :-))) Jackie, thank you again for permission to post this. Becky

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My grandparents - John Meshack Johnson and Sarah Johnson are buried in this cemetery. Unfortunately, at the time of their deaths, a tombstone was not provided. Can someone help me find out the exact location of their graves? Thanks. Mary Caldwell

Im still recovering from the long weekend myself. This is the first post by anyone since the holiday hit. You can come out of the corner if you promise to be good....lol Im glad you are scanning more photos girl. I've been inundated with tombstone photos from folks on the list. Not entire cemeteries but family photos. So we will be catch as catch can on some of these pages but that's ok... it's a start. I'll try to get my but in gear and get a page done today or tomorrow. Jackie Becky Pyland Davis wrote: >Okay Jackie, stop your 'barking' at us and I will TRY and behave. Last time you 'barked' I went to my corner and started trying to catch the dust particles in the air. I also wrote on the wall, "I will TRY to not upset the Jackie >again!" >I just came out now to scan some more tombstones photos I have from Ripley county. > >Beck > >Tanimara wrote: > > > >>I meant imbarking.. not barking...lol Leave it up to Judy to catch >>that...lol And I try to be soooo careful with my posts...lol >> >>Jackie >> >>Tanimara wrote: >> >> >> >>>For those of you who are interested. The call for volunteers went out >>>about two weeks ago to help with the cemetery project for our site. >>>We have 5 volunteers that need to be thanked publicly... Becky Pyland >>>Davis, Debbie Horine, Peggy Cannady, Dawn Pavlichek, and our only >>>guy.. Matt Patterson. Due to the leg work, computer time, and >>>patience with me..lol We are barking on a project that we hope will >>>help those of you so far from home to make contact with the ancestors. >>> >>>On the cemetery pages, we have begun to link pictures of headstones to >>>the names on the pages. I'm sure this project will never be complete, >>>but due to the efforts of these people, it will be a blessing to many. >>> >>>There is one more thing that may help us. If you are harboring >>>pictures of the headstones of your family members. I will be glad to >>>post them to the site as we complete these pages. Just email them to >>>me at tanimara@townsqr.com. >>> >>>Picture links are hit and miss at this time. Finished pages with >>>several links on each page are Bennett and Pine Cem. >>> >>>Enjoy, and thank you so much to the volunteers out there who remain >>>anonymous. Whether it is with this project, doing lookups, or >>>answering queries. That's how it gets done. >>> >>>Jackie >>> >>> >>-- >> >>*"A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass" * >> >>*Crazy Horse - Oglala Sioux * >> >>*County Coordinator Ripley Co MO GenWeb* >><http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/> >> >>*Moderator HarringtonGen* <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> >> >>*Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees - Livestock Guardians* >><http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/> >> >>==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== >>Homepage for Ripley Co GenWeb site >><a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/">http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/</a> >> >>============================== >>New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >> >> > > >==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== >Homepage for Ripley Co GenWeb site ><a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/">http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/</a> > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > -- "A day without Bill Barnhill is like A day without Sunshine" "A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass" Crazy Horse - Oglala Sioux County Coordinator Ripley Co MO GenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/> Moderator HarringtonGen <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees - Livestock Guardians <http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/>

Okay Jackie, stop your 'barking' at us and I will TRY and behave. Last time you 'barked' I went to my corner and started trying to catch the dust particles in the air. I also wrote on the wall, "I will TRY to not upset the Jackie again!" I just came out now to scan some more tombstones photos I have from Ripley county. Beck Tanimara wrote: > I meant imbarking.. not barking...lol Leave it up to Judy to catch > that...lol And I try to be soooo careful with my posts...lol > > Jackie > > Tanimara wrote: > > > For those of you who are interested. The call for volunteers went out > > about two weeks ago to help with the cemetery project for our site. > > We have 5 volunteers that need to be thanked publicly... Becky Pyland > > Davis, Debbie Horine, Peggy Cannady, Dawn Pavlichek, and our only > > guy.. Matt Patterson. Due to the leg work, computer time, and > > patience with me..lol We are barking on a project that we hope will > > help those of you so far from home to make contact with the ancestors. > > > > On the cemetery pages, we have begun to link pictures of headstones to > > the names on the pages. I'm sure this project will never be complete, > > but due to the efforts of these people, it will be a blessing to many. > > > > There is one more thing that may help us. If you are harboring > > pictures of the headstones of your family members. I will be glad to > > post them to the site as we complete these pages. Just email them to > > me at tanimara@townsqr.com. > > > > Picture links are hit and miss at this time. Finished pages with > > several links on each page are Bennett and Pine Cem. > > > > Enjoy, and thank you so much to the volunteers out there who remain > > anonymous. Whether it is with this project, doing lookups, or > > answering queries. That's how it gets done. > > > > Jackie > > -- > > *"A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass" * > > *Crazy Horse - Oglala Sioux * > > *County Coordinator Ripley Co MO GenWeb* > <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/> > > *Moderator HarringtonGen* <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> > > *Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees - Livestock Guardians* > <http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/> > > ==== MORIPLEY Mailing List ==== > Homepage for Ripley Co GenWeb site > <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/">http://www.rootsweb.com/~moripley/</a> > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429

Does anyone on the list have access to an index for deaths in the county, or the State of Missouri from 1900 and later? In the 1900 census, Pine Twp, Ripley county: Daniel Walter BRIDGES, born abt 1834, Tennessee Lutisha (ABSHER) PATE PAGE BRIDGES, born abt 1858, Missouri This couple was married in Ripley county in Feb. 1900 Lutisha's previous two marriages were also in Ripley county Unable to find them after 1900 Suggestions would be welcomed. Lee Gentemann Salem, OR

http://www.bulletinboards.com/view.cfm?comcode=RICH10&cat=1 Perhaps someone out there can help some on this list search for their missing veteran. pat

Pat, A great big personal thank you! Linda