Hey, The MO Dept of Conservation has a hiking trail near the old townsite of Garber, on Roark Creek. It is part of the Ruth and Paul Hennings State Park. There are several old homesteads, parts of which are still standing, on the map of the trail. Newt Cox's place is one of them. The person who compiled the history already had it wrong at the Rube Isaacs homestead, by stating he was a temporary sheriff after Galba Branson was killed in the shootout with Billy Miles and friends. She stated that Galba was killed by Bald Knobbers, when Ingenthron is quite clear in all of his books that Billy Miles was an Anti-Bald Knobber. Then I got to thinking about it, and I don't think Sheriff Reuben Isaacs ever lived over on Roark Creek. When his daughter married before his death in 1895, she was listed as living in Forsyth (clear over to the other side of the county.) My grandmother knew a Rube Isaacs, clearly NOT the one who was sheriff, since she wasn't born until 1915. My question is, did the Sheriff have a son by that name, and if so, did he live in Jasper, or possibly Newton or Branson Twp in later years? I'm wondering just whose homestead that was. Vonda