Margaret Kenamore/Kennemore/Kenemore/Kennemer/Cannimore was born in Maury Co. c. 1822 to William Kenamore and Mary Johnson, who lived near Bigbyville. William Kenamore and his family -- largely daughters -- were living in Civil District 7 in the 1838 school census, or roughly the time Margaret would have married. She married a Craig, according to a family story that is only verified because her mother left a bequest to Margaret Craig in her will in southwest Missouri in the late 1860s. In the 1838 census, two Craigs are shown as parents of schoolchildren in Civil District 7 -- James D. Craig and Robert Craig, whose name is marked out. Margaret and her husband apparently did not marry in Maury Co. because I can find no reference to her. Most of the Kenamore daughters appear to have married in nearby Giles Co., where the marriage records were largely destroyed in 1858 and 1864. By family legend, Margaret Kenamore was divorced from Craig, which likely explains why she is shown by the name Kenamore/Kinamore/Kennemer/Kinnenrope/etc. until the last census in which she appears, 1900 in Christian Co., MO. The Kenamores and their children lived in Maury Co. near Bigbyville until late 1852 when several of the married daughters, their families and father William Kenamore made the trek to southwest Missouri with a group of Maury Co. settlers that could have totalled close to 100 persons or more. William returned to Maury Co., but he, his wife and remaining children moved south of Springfield, MO near the first group of emigrants in 1854. The early 1850s emigrants from Maury to the Ozarks included Grant Allen Kenamore, James Wright Edwards, William Carroll Edwards, Wiley W. Hedgpeth, Thomas Threat/Thweatt Gooch, the children of James Green and Mary McCafferty, many of the Londons, David Ginger, Albert Beverly Stubblefield, John Armenius Mack and cousin John A. Mack, the Parton/Partins, Jared Ebenezer Smith and Patrick Gooch, son of the Rev. William Spraggins Gooch and nephew of Thomas Threat. Eventually, they were joined by Abner Johnson Jr., the son of Revolutionary War veteran Abner Sr. of Maury Co. and brother of Mary Johnson Kenamore. Is anyone tracing the Craigs of the Bigbyville-Southport area during the late 1830s or early 1840s who can identify which one married either a) a Kenamore, b) a Margaret or c) someone unknown? I look forward to hearing, too, from anyone researching the general Bigbyville area in the first half of the 19th century or the territory around Southport, where William C. McConnell (my gggg-uncle) was an early blacksmith until his death in May 1872. Thanks, Randy McConnell