Can anyone tell me anything about this man, or where this land was located in Vernon County? Thanks, Jim --------------- Patentee Name: WILLIAM BRIDGES Document #: 20013 Issue Date: January 25, 1888 Acres: 240 Land Office: SPRINGFIELD Comments: ---Land descriptions: SWSE 28/ 34-N 33-W No 5th PM MO VERNON CO --- E½SW 28/ 34-N 33-W No 5th PM MO VERNON CO --- W½NE 33/ 34-N 33-W No 5th PM MO VERNON CO --- NENW 33/ 34-N 33-W No 5th PM MO VERNON CO--- ---------------- . . . James R. Baker, Jr. jrbakerjr@yahoo.com Visit my genealogy databases: Missouri site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrbakerjr/missouri/missouri.html Main Genealogy site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrbakerjr/genealogy/index.htm .

Quick tip: RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) is a great place to go if you need someone to look up information for you. It used to be listed on rootsweb's main page, but it is no longer there (I wonder why :o\). I am including the link below. There is a volunteer for Vernon county and in the past she has helped me locate obituaries for many of my distant kin. She has offered to look up census, marriage, cemetery and obituary information at the library. RAOGK is a great way to get help in places you can't go, and help out people researching in your area. http://www.raogk.org/ Damon _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

Regarding look-ups in the Nevada library, one newspaper that covered old Vernon happenings was the El Dorado Sun. Any information found in an early newspaper about the marriage on 18 Nov., 1877 of John L. Workman & Nancy Elizabeth Price ("Lizzie Price") would be welcome & wonderful. Or about the birth of their son, Rob't Lee Workman on 6 Apr., 1880. My maiden name was Antoinette Workman & John L. is my great grandfather, about whom I know very little. He arrived in Vernon with Hiram Taylor after the death of his wife in Clark Co., IL ca. 1876. Antoinette avawter1@email.msn.com

William Riley VANDIVER, b. Oct 4, 1839 (MO), d. July 18, 1905 (TX) Married Margaret F. and they had two sons William J. and Samuel Edward both born in MO. Married 2nd wife Ester C. HUFF born May 26, 1854 (IL or MO) d. 1924 (TX). They were married June 18, 1868 in Virgil Township, Vernon County, MO. I am looking for the parents of Ester/Esther HUFF. Any information will be appreciated. Patsy Faulkner

My Vernon Co. surnames are HESTER & STANART. Time period after 1900. Thanks, Lise

This came from a list I copied back in 1999, this is not all the county's for the state of MO. and I cannot guarantee accuracy. This will hopefully give you a clue as to where you might go look if you can't find your "Person" in a certain county. Vernon Co. was not formed until 1855, before that it was Bates Co., county seat Nevada. Bates Co., was not formed until 1841 from Cass Co., the county seat is Butler. Cass Co., was formed by renameing it from Van Buren Co in 1849. Van Buren Co. (extinct) was formed in 1835 from Jackson Co., it was renamed in 1849. Jackson Co was formed in 1826 from Lafayette Co., the county seat is Independence. Lafayette Co., was formed by renaming Lillard Co, the county seat is Lexington. Lillard Co. (extinct) was formed in 1820 from Cooper Co., renamed Lafayette Co. 1825 Cooper Co., was formed in 1818 from Howard Co., county seat is Boonville. Howard Co., was formed in 1816 from parts of St.Charles and St Louis Counties the county seat is Fayette St. Charles county was formed in 1812 as an Original District; the county seat is St. Charles St. Louis county was formed in 1812 as an Original District; the county seat is St Charles. St. Louis county was formed in 1876 from the Original District land and parts of the City of St. Louis, the county seat is Clayton St Louis City was first settled in 1764 and officially recogized as an American city in 1804; it is an original district. It is not a county as such; records are in the city.

I have noticed recently that the AT&T servers have been a little slow causing some of the pages to seem to not work. I have found if you refresh the page or try the link a few times it will finally come up. This is my free web space from my Internet Service Provider, so they are not too concerned with reliability :o(. >From: "Ralph D. Biddle" <rbiddle@flash.net> >To: D Waring <dwimagine2@hotmail.com> >CC: MOVERNON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Research information and my family names >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:56:41 -0600 > >Damon, > >Somrthing is wrong with your hyper links, I cannot pick them up. Is anyone >else >having this problem? > >Ralph > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Hi Fellow Researchers. Do any of you have a Topo Map covering a part of the county that would show what part of the county Twp 34 Rng 29 is located. I would greatly appreciate your help. James

James, My Vernon County map shows that it is Montevallo Twnshp, located in the SE corner of the county. I got this great map that shows all the townships, streets, etc for all of Vernon County by calling the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce, 110 South Adams, Nevada, MO 64772 (417)667-5300. They sent me one at no cost, plus a great folder of information. Molly

Can any one tell me if this William Reed that purchased land in Vernon Co., MO about the same as Samuel Reed and Solomon Reed are related. Samuel and Solomon are brothers, son of Samuel Reed Sr. REED, SAMUEL 03/01/1848 REED, SOLOMON 12/01/1849 REED, WILLIAM A 07/01/1848 Also who is William L. Reed b. July 21 or 27, 1815 and d. Nov. 15, 1871 that is buried in Fairview Rider Cemetery in Bates Co., just over the line from Vernon Co., MO Samuel Reed and his wife and Solomon Reed's wife and other Reed's are buried there in Fairview Rider Cemetery. Just trying to figure out who William Reed is and if he is related.

I'm looking for information on Willis Rucker and wife Mattie or Martha and their family. They show up in the 1870 census Bacon? township. They have 4 children with them and relative, Samuel Brim. Metz township, 1880 Census just Martha shows up with 5 children. 1900 the children (grin) are still here in a family group, ages 32 to 25. Frederick is listed with his wife. Are Willis Rucker and his wife Martha buried in this area? Does his first wife Mary C. Brim Rucker happen to be buried in this area? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Janis _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

HI , List Im making a trip to Nevada Mo next week and am if possiable going to try to make every trip to each cemetary that I can if possiable .. and I will be there in time during my stay for a short time visit to the lib for look ups , I will also be taking a Camera if anyone would like for me to do a picture of any tomb stones while there ... If so let me know asap , and make sure that they include any and all information I could use to help aid in my search and I will be glad to try and help ! Im by no means saying Im making any promise to this email !!! Thanks Lara

Damon, Somrthing is wrong with your hyper links, I cannot pick them up. Is anyone else having this problem? Ralph D Waring wrote: > Hi everyone- > > I am very excited about all of the activity on this list! I have digitized > and posted the "Nevada Souvenir" on my web site. This is a 40 page booklet > that gives information on ~200 people and ~100 businesses in Nevada around > 1910. I have been told that the historical society has a copy of the > booklet, but if you are like me (2,000 miles away) it is hard to access. > The online version is an exact duplicate of the original (formatting and > everything), and I will be happy to provide anybody with a copy of the > original high resolution scanned images of the booklet. Just drop me an > email with your address and I will send you copies on CD. > > The Nevada Souvenir is here: > http://home.attbi.com/~waring16/nevada/souvenir/index.html > (If you bookmark this site, please bookmark http://www.damonwaring.com - I > may change ISP's in the future) > > I also maintain an index of all names, not related to me, which I run across > in my hunts. I do this in hopes that maybe I stumbled across a source > someone has not seen yet. Currently, the list is only for 2 documents (~300 > names) ... but I will be adding more later. > > http://home.attbi.com/~waring16/othernameidx.html > > Finally, I am researching the following names in Nevada: > Hagood > Cockerill > Bond > McIlhany > > Thanks! > Damon > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== MOVERNON Mailing List ==== > List Administrator: Robert Steven LINDLEY > Email: robert@lindleyfamily.com > Website: http://www.lindleyfamily.com > > ============================== > 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

Hi everyone- I am very excited about all of the activity on this list! I have digitized and posted the "Nevada Souvenir" on my web site. This is a 40 page booklet that gives information on ~200 people and ~100 businesses in Nevada around 1910. I have been told that the historical society has a copy of the booklet, but if you are like me (2,000 miles away) it is hard to access. The online version is an exact duplicate of the original (formatting and everything), and I will be happy to provide anybody with a copy of the original high resolution scanned images of the booklet. Just drop me an email with your address and I will send you copies on CD. The Nevada Souvenir is here: http://home.attbi.com/~waring16/nevada/souvenir/index.html (If you bookmark this site, please bookmark http://www.damonwaring.com - I may change ISP's in the future) I also maintain an index of all names, not related to me, which I run across in my hunts. I do this in hopes that maybe I stumbled across a source someone has not seen yet. Currently, the list is only for 2 documents (~300 names) ... but I will be adding more later. http://home.attbi.com/~waring16/othernameidx.html Finally, I am researching the following names in Nevada: Hagood Cockerill Bond McIlhany Thanks! Damon _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

I was told that the early tax lists that were in the courthouse were microfilmed, then given to anyone who wanted them. Some were thrown away. I was lucky enough to buy the one for Center Township for 1907 in a flea market there. It's on my website. The Bushwacker Museum has some of them, but I don't know which ones. I saw them there. Jim . . . James R. Baker, Jr. jrbakerjr@yahoo.com Visit my genealogy databases: Missouri site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrbakerjr/missouri/missouri.html Main Genealogy site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrbakerjr/genealogy/index.htm . ----- Original Message ----- From: James Furry To: MOVERNON-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:05 AM Subject: Tax List Hi Fellow Researchers. Is there a Tax List covering the years 1856 through 1858 available for the County? Thanks for a reply. James ==== MOVERNON Mailing List ==== List Administrator: Robert Steven LINDLEY Email: robert@lindleyfamily.com Website: http://www.lindleyfamily.com ============================== 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

Hi Fellow Researchers. Is there a Tax List covering the years 1856 through 1858 available for the County? Thanks for a reply. James

This will let you know the names I am researching. My Grandfather is Delton Carter born in Nevada Missouri 9/1884 and died in Weiser Idaho. His mother was Mary E Armstrong b-jun 1853 in Kentucky. Her parents were Rufus Armstrong and Elizabeth Craft. I am looking for John Hereford Carters parents or any other information you might have. John Carter died in Nevada 27 Jan 1906.I know he was buried in Antioch Cemetary. Also both of my grandmothers maiden names are Wilson-Ella Mae and Nellie Ellen. Would love to hear from anyone with ties to these names. I have some pictures of Delton and Rufus. Dianne Petersen

I am new to this list - as of today - and am looking for information on Charles Steel(e). He was born about 1856 in Franklin Co., MO, but I believe he lived later in Vernon Co. in the Stotesbury area. He was a half brother to my ggrandfather and family tradition is that he was a doctor in the Nevada area. I don't really have other information except that his wife might have been Dorcas, or something similar. I have looked for information for many years and would appreciate any leads. Thanks, Rena McWilliams

Thanks to everyone responding to me about our pending visit to Vernon County in May. You gave me lots of hints, addresses, e-mail addresses, etc. that will be so very helpful when we arrive there. Thanks for the McKee burial information - the one was the brother of my grandfather. The little boy died at age 7 when granddad was only 2 so he would not have remembered him. I'll be "talking" with some of you via e-mail to get more advice and suggestions for our trip. Pat Bauer -- Patricia McKee Bauer in SW Washington state I'm webmaster for CCGS at http://www.ccgs-wa.org, ARRA at http://www.rosietheriveter.net & Citizens For Cultural Arts at http://www.c4ca.org Our Family Roots are at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~patbauer/ See my reunion page at http://www.pacifier.com/~patbauer

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