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Resources for Researching Vernon County, Missouri
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Biographies and other
information on Vernon County ancestors. |
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Suggested resources for researching births. |
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Suggested resources for researching
deaths. |
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Family Group Sheets of Vernon County ancestors.
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Resources in
the Nevada Library Genealogy Department. Includes
numerous on-line indexes. |
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Resources for military research. |
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Researching children of St. Francis Orphans' Home. |
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Photographers listed by year. |
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Requesting lookups or general
research from the local genealogy group. |
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Planning a research
trip to Vernon County, Missouri. |
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Researching former Nevada State
Hospital #3 patients. |
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Cities, towns,
crossroads, and other populated places of Vernon County, Missouri. |
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Other helpful websites
for researching Vernon County ancestors.
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Vernon County |
The first permanent white settlers in
the area that is now Vernon County were the Summers brothers -- Jesse
J., Moses, and Allen -- and their families. They came from Kentucky,
spending time in the St. Charles-Warren County, Missouri, area and then the Arkansas
Territory,
before arriving here and settling near the Osage River in what is now
Metz Township, Vernon County, Missouri in 1829. Vernon
County became a county in 1855. The county seat is Nevada,
Missouri. Although the Vernon County Courthouse was burned in
1863, the records were not lost because they had been removed from the
area. Deed Record Book B, however, did get lost. |
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Click here for
current-day township map
of Vernon County |
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Where to look for Vernon
County, Missouri in the U.S. Federal Census:
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1830: |
North of the Osage River:
Jackson County. |
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South of the Osage River:
Crawford County. |
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1840: |
Van Buren County except for
the southern 1/4th of the county which was enumerated as Newton County. |
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1850: |
Bates County. |
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1860-present:
Vernon County. |
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Cedar County |
Clayton Abbott's
"Historical Sketches of Cedar County" says that a Joseph Whitman
purchased land from the U.S. Government December 16, 1830.
Goodspeed's 1889 Cedar County History says that the first permanent
white settlers in the area that is now Cedar County were Robert Graham,
Thomas English, John Crisp, and a Mr. Crump. They settled on the
Sac River east of Stockton in 1832. Cedar County became a county
in 1845. The county seat is Stockton, Missouri. |
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Where to look for Cedar
County, Missouri in the U.S. Federal Census: |
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1840: |
The northwest 1/4 of the county was
Rives County. |
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The southwest 1/4 was part of Berry
County. |
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The east 1/2 was part of Polk County. |
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1850-present: Cedar County. |
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St. Clair County |
The first cabin was built in
the area that is now St. Clair County by Jacob Coonce in Roscoe Township
in 1831. He hunted and trapped in the area as early as 1827.
St. Clair County became a county in 1841. The county seat is
Osceola, Missouri. |
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Where to look for St. Clair
County, Missouri in the U.S. Federal Census: |
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1830: |
North of the Osage River:
Lafayette County. |
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South of the Osage River:
Crawford County. |
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1840: |
Rives County except for the
lower southeast corner which was part of Polk County. |
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1850-present: St. Clair
County. |
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