The following is a message posted to the Dunn County message board. Unfortunately it was too long to be reposted on the mailing list. Please go to the message board using the link below to read the whole thing. Enjoy! Linda Widunn List Admin >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/1352.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Just found another recollection on the Missouri Valley which is very >definitive in who lived in the valley and where they lived. It was great >and I thought you would enjoy it. > >VALLEY FOLKS >Valuable information was also obtained from records written in l957 by >Mrs. Albert Klatt (Cora Smith) of Elmwood, Wis. before her death. Another >informative source was The History of Dunn County, Wis. > >The purpose in writing this Sketch of the life in the Missouri Valley is >to have a record of the families that were the first settlers there, in so >far as it was possible to obtain these records. Its history dates back to >the 1860s at least, but most of the people mentioned herein lived there >after this date. It includes the period from about 1860 to the 1930s. > >The genealogies of many of the families were obtained with the help of >some of the descendants of the early folks. To them I owe a debt of >gratitude and you will find them listed on the next page. Several folks >that I contacted did not reply and because of this, there are many dates >and some personal information lacking about some of the folks. A few >others could not be reached at all. For this I am sorry, for I would liked >to have had the records completed.