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The Nevada Public Library and Genealogy Department will be closed Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, 2012 for Memorial Day in honor of our U.S. Military Veterans.

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Cedar & Vernon County, MO Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 10 a.m.

The Nevada Library

218 West Walnut Street, Nevada, MO

"Do You have a Revolutionary War Patriot in Your Tree?"

Program will be presented by Nancy Thompson, using the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and other websites in your Patriot research.  If available, please bring a laptop with Wi-Fi capabilities for this program and a few notes on one or two of your family lines.  A handout will be provided.  If bringing a laptop, please arrive at the Library between 9 and 9:30 a.m. for set up and connecting/testing the Library's free Wi-Fi connection.  The meeting and program are open to the public, and everyone with an interest in local history or researching his or her family’s history is invited to attend.  If you have questions, please email the Society at Cedar.VernonCoMO@centurytel.net

                              Bronaugh

The Town, the Man and his Friends

The early history of the town of

Bronaugh, Missouri

and the man it was named for

 This definitive history on the small Vernon County town of Bronaugh was carefully researched and contains complete documentation along with numerous photographs and ink drawings.  There are plenty of stories of the early days before the founding of the town, its founding, and continues up to 1910.  Included are approximately 50 pages on W. C. Bronaugh, the town's namesake, and his sometimes notorious friends.  Many first-hand accounts from the memoirs of both Chester Gibbs and Anne Doores Munson are included, guaranteeing interesting reading about life in very early Bronaugh! 

This beautiful 300-page, indexed, hard-bound book will make a treasured addition to your personal library.  It is also the ideal Christmas gift for those with connections to Vernon County and the Bronaugh community.

Order your copy today  $40 plus $5.00 S/H  

   Checks payable and mail to

      Bushwhacker Museum

       Attn:  Books

       212 W. Walnut St.

       Nevada, MO  64772

                                   Or purchase locally at

         the Bushwhacker Museum

                                       Second Printing

Vernon County, Missouri Cemetery Directory 2010

with Updated Sheldon Cemetery Listing

A second printing of the new Vernon County, Missouri Cemetery Directory 2010 is now available. The second printing includes updated Sheldon Cemetery information.  More than 51,000 burials with an every-name index.  It is printed in two volumes, just over 1,000 pages, cardstock covers, comb bound.

$35.00 per 2-Vol. set

$10.00 S/H for mail orders (USPO Media Mail only)

For orders:  checks payable and mail (or handcarry) to

        Bushwhacker Museum

          Attn:  Books

          212 W. Walnut St.

          Nevada, MO  64772

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