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"Douglas County Missouri -- History & Families
1857 -- 1995"

Copyright 1996 by Douglas County Historical Society -- All Rights Reserved
Printed by Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky

This book is out-of-print

Contact Pat Carmichael for Look-Ups or Research in This Book -- Also The Douglas County Historical & Genealogical Society will photocopy family history pages at 25 cents per page. 
Contact Pat also with photocopy requests.

 

Table of Contents

 
 
  • Introduction
  • Historical & Genealogical Society
  • General History -- "The Birth of Douglas County" compiled by Barbara Ann Vinson DeVore and edited by Randy Spurlock
    • The First Inhabitants
    • The Explorers and the First Settlers
    • Ozark County Established
    • Douglas County Established
    • First County Seat (Vera Cruz)
    • Second County Seat (Arno)
    • Third County Seat (Ava)
  • Communities
    • Ava
    • Champion
    • Denlow
    • Depew
    • Dogwood
    • Honey Branch Cave
    • Olathia
    • Ongo
    • Richville
    • Smallett
    • Sweden
    • Topaz Mill
    • Vera Cruz
    • Ozark Southern Railway 1910-1935
  • Military History --The Battles of Vera Cruz, Nov. 7, 1862 -- Nov. 3, 1864
    by Jack C. Vineyard
  • Veterans -- Memorial listing of those who gave their lives from Douglas County, Missouri.
  • Sponsors
    • Businesses
      • Ava Drug Company, Inc.
      • Ava Insurance Agency -- Area Land Realty
      • Citizens Bank
      • City of Ava
      • Clinkingbeards Funeral Home
      • Crystal Lake Fisheries
      • Douglas County Elected Officials
      • First Home Savings Bank
      • Ozark Family Vision Center
      • Spurlock's Store -- Squires
      • Brooks Meat Market
      • Missouri Foxtrotting Horse Breeders Association
      • Douglas County National Bank
      • Douglas County Bank
      • Cooper Lumber
      • Bill's Lumber, Inc.
      • MFA Agri Services
      • State Farm Insurance
    • Churches
      • Basher Church
      • First Southern Baptist, Ava
      • Ava General Baptist Church
      • Highway Church of the Nazarene
      • Pleasant Home Freewill Baptist Church
      • St. Leo The Great Catholic Church
      • Blue Buck Mountain Full Gospel Church
      • First Baptist Church, Vanzant
      • Girdner Church and Cemetery
      • Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church
    • Church Histories --
      • Denlow Church -- 1960
      • Eastern Gate Missionary Baptist Church
      • Mount Calvary Church of Freewill Baptist
      • Newhope Freewill Baptist Church
      • Red Bank Church
      • Roy Church of Christ
      • Trinity Lutheran Church of Ava
      • Vera Cruz Church
      • Camp J-O-Y Bible Conference Grounds
    • Organizations
      • Sassafras Sprouts Hoedowners
      • Douglas County Museum
    • Memorial Section
      • In Honor of Sally Phillips Gott
      • In Memory of My Mother -- Ermie Mae Housley Smith
      • In Memory of Barbara Ann Vinson DeVore
      • Fay Daily Huffman and Arthur Huffman
      • In Memory of Sarah Francis Ridenour
      • In Memory of My Father, Hugh Clifton Rogers
    • Schools
      • Ava School (includes list of Superintendents and Principals)
      • Breedon School
      • Fairview School District #46
      • Hall School House
      • Ozark Holiness Academy
      • Patterson School District #92
  • Family Histories (approximately 1500 individual histories)
    • Click Here for list of surname headings for the histories.
  • Index (to approximately 2800 Surnames contained in the family histories)
 
 

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