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History of Pemiscot County Missouri




History of Pemiscot County




PEMISCOT COUNTY

  • PEMISCOT County was organized February 19,1851 from New Madrid County and named for the Indian Word meaning 'liquid mud'.

  • County Seat:
    Caruthersville MO 63830.

  • Courthouse burned in 1883.

  • Recorder of Deeds:
    Index to deeds, 1833-1902;
    Deed Records 1881-1900;

  • Marriage records and index,1882-1917

  • Clerk of County court:
    Register of births and stillbirths,1883-1884

  • Clerk of Circuit court:
    Circuit court records, 1883-1889

  • Clerk of Probate court:
    Probate records,1882-1897;

    Administrators/executors letters bonds and records,1883-1911;

    Settlement records, 1883-1918;

    Will records,1865-1928.






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