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Tri-County Genealogical Society

(Vernon-Cedar-St. Clair Counties)

c/o Nevada Public Library

218 West Walnut Street

Nevada, MO  64772

email:  tricountygenealogy@centurytel.net

website:  www.rootsweb.com/~motcogs/

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What's new & updates:

September 2009:

    Vernon Co., MO Marriage Book C, 1881-1885 Index - finding aid.
    Vernon Co., MO Marriage Book D, 1885-1888 Index - finding aid.
    September 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    New biography page for Pharoah Henry William REED (Lyndon Irwin website) and STRONG (Robert Strong website).

August 2009:

    August 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Expanded Nevada State Hospital #3 webpage.

July 2009:

    July 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Vernon Co, MO Marriage Book A, 1855-1877 - finding aid.
    Vernon Co, MO Marriage Book B, 1877-1881 - finding aid.

June 2009:

    June 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    May 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    New or updated biography page for Barnett Family, Joseph TAHLMAN, Granville THOMPSON and Abram WORMLEY.

May 2009:

    April 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.

April 2009:

    Added links to Irwin web pages on surnames BALES and McREYNOLDS.
    2009 Metz High School Alumni Newsletter.

March 2009:

    March 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Updated Marriage Record Research Requests.
    Nevada Public Library and Genealogy Department: New Hours of Operation.
    February 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.

February 2009:

    Added links to Irwin web pages on surnames MELL, MULKEY, SCHWARTZ, SHAULL, and SMITH.
    January 2009 Tri-County Newsletter.

January 2009:

    Updated Request Research web page.
    December 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

December 2008:

    Updated Genealogy Department resources listings.
    Updated Photographers page.

November 2008:

    November 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Fire and Sword: A Missouri County in the Civil War.
    Updated biography page on Richard S. GRIGGS.
    October 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

    Balltown Cemetery (previously posted):

          Dedication of New Veterans' Memorial at Balltown Cemetery (flyer)

          New Military Memorial (updated pictures)

          Civil War G.A.R. Lot (Before)

          Civil War G.A.R. Lot Completed

          Before & After of Individual Stones

          Trimming Trees and Removing Brush

          Balltown Cemetery Rehab is a Labor of Love

          Rinehart 4-H Club Cleans Up Balltown Cemetery

October 2008:

    Dedication of New Veterans' Memorial at Balltown Cemetery (flyer).
    Rinehart 4-H Club Cleans Up Balltown Cemetery.

September 2008:

    September 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Added link to Irwin's Bronaugh-Moundville ARMSTRONG family.
    Changed date of Balltown Cemetery Dedication Ceremony to Sunday, November 9, 2 p.m. in all materials.
    Added St. Francis Orphans' Home research information.

August 2008:

     August 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

    Pictures of Historic Balltown Cemetery renovation:

              New Military Memorial (updated pictures)

              Civil War G.A.R. Lot (Before)

              Civil War G.A.R. Lot Completed

              Before & After of Individual Stones

              Trimming Trees and Removing Brush

    Added newspaper articles Balltown Cemetery Rehab is a Labor of Love and Genealogical Society Honored by Courts.

July 2008:

    Added or updated biography pages on Thomas LYONS.
    Updated Nevada State Hospital #3 web page.
    July 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Resolved FreeFind issues -- search this website below.
    June 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

June 2008:

    Updated Research Trip information.
    Added or updated biography pages on William M. BOWKER, Charles G. BURTON, Noah CATON, Jesse EWELL, DeWitt Clinton HUNTER, Chapman WARKINS, John WRAY.
    May 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Photographers.

May 2008:

    Repaired broken link to Vernon County Probate Index.

    Added biography pages on John N. BRAMBLE, Strawther EADS, William B. ELLIS, Richard H. ESTES, Joseph FERGUS, William F. FORD, Cornelius GALVIN, John HARDACRE, John R. C. HILL, William S. HOWELL, William C. HUFF, Elijah G. JEFFRIES, John T. LANCASTER, Jasper McCRARY, George H. MOBLEY, E. G. SCOTT, James W. B. SCOTT, Isaac SIGMAN, Clark SMITH, Joseph M. WOOD.

April 2008:

    April 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    2008 Metz School Alumni Newsletter.
    Fair Haven Springs.

    Added/updated biography pages on Squire J. BAZE, John KINCAID, Thomas W. SMITH, TOWNE Family.

March 2008:

    March 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.
    Previous newsletters.
    Updated list of Missouri county histories available in Genealogy Dept.

    Added/updated biography pages on BARNETT Family, Robert L. WILLSON.

    February 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

February 2008:

    A Good ol' Osage River Baptism.

    Added Family Group Sheets on Charles Hendrick CATON, Fred Edmond CATON, William S. CATON (2), William Thomas CRAWLEY, Matthew HEARE, Thomas Hampton LYONS, Samuel Harrison MALLOY, Andrew OLIPHANT, Joseph Thompson RYNARD, Pierce THOMPSON.

    Added/updated biography pages on William Polk BARNETT, Delbert Forest CARY, Charles Hendrick CATON, John William Wesley CATON, Mark Lee CATON, Robert E. Lee CATON, Silas Newton HOWARD, Andrew Jackson LONGACRE, Jesse T. MADDOX, George A. MOFFATT, Thomas Jefferson MYERS, John M. OVERSTREET, William Hancher PARMAN, Walter Alonzo STEELE.

January 2008:

    January 2008 Tri-County Newsletter.

    Honor Your Ancestors by Sharing Photographs of Them.

    Updated status of Society Projects.

    Added 1893 & 1894 newspaper articles of pioneer settlers of Vernon Co.

    Added Births to resources categories.

    Began reformatting site; expect completion by middle of February.

    Added Military to resources categories.

    Mexican War Veterans, 1894 newspaper article.

    Frank Hogan Shoots Ed Melton at Metz, 1900 newspaper article.

    St. Francis Orphans' Home.
    1901 Confederate Reunion in Vernon County.

    Marking Two More Confederate Graves, Nevada Daily Mail, Patrick Brophy, July 12, 2007.

    Added/updated biography pages on Joseph R. AINGELL, Joseph BAILEY, Augustus BAKER, James BEDFORD, T. Y. BRANNOCK, David CRUISE, Joel Thomas DOWNEY, A. J. KIBLER, Paul Irvin LYONS, W. F. McDANIEL, William Riley NEAGLE, Henry A. PURNEL, Elijah RHEA, Simeon SHEARER, Lafayette SHINDLER, Annie E. (Edwards) Simpson SMITH, Wilson SPAYDE, H. J. SPENCER, Milton STROUD, William M. STUART, James M. TURLEY, James W. UNDERWOOD, William VAIL, Isaac WELCH, Robert L. WILLSON, and James WITT.

    December 2007 Tri-County Newsletter.

December 2007:

    Updated email address:  tricountygenealogy@centurytel.net

    Added family group sheets for: Jonathan Miller CLICK, Samuel CLICK, John DEATLEY, Tilghman GILLEN.

    Expanded listing of Military Resources at Nevada Library Genealogy Dept.

    Added FreeFind for searches on our website -- see below.

    Added/updated biography pages for George W. ADCOCK, Joseph BAILEY, Dr. J. A. BRYAN, David CRUISE, Charles H. DUFF, J. H. EACOTT, William E. FISHER, A. A. FINCH, George W. HARRIS, HART, W. W. HILL, Adam HOFSESS, Andrew C. HOGAN, Charles L. HUMBLE, John H. HURST, T. R. JONES, George A. MACK, Walter G. MORRISON, Alfred R. NORMAN.

    Added Alphabetical Listing of Names from Vernon Co Marriage Book A, 1855-1877 and from Vernon Co Marriage Book B, 1877-1881.

    Hero of the Red River: The Life and Times of Joseph Bailey book review.  Civil War hero & Vernon Co. Sheriff killed 1867 in the line of duty.

November 2007:

    November 2007 Tri-County Newsletter.

    Index to 1939 Plat Map of Bickett Cemetery. [This link has been repaired.]

    Vernon County Cemetery Directory, newspaper article by Neoma Foreman.

    October 2007 Tri-County Newsletter.

    Added Charles EALES family group sheet.

October 2007:
    Added Christopher T. DAVIS bios page.
    September 2007 Tri-County Newsletter.
September 2007:
    Added Family Group Sheet for John Wesley WOOD.
    August 2007 Tri-County Newsletter
August 2007:
    Newspaper microfilm for the Schell City Ledger, Schell City Times, and Walker Herald has been added to the Nevada Library Genealogy Department. 
    Tri-County Society Member Receives Missouri State Genealogical Society Assoc. Award (news article).
    More bio pages:  Frank CLYBURNJames CUMMINS,  and James SALLEE.
    Added  Dr. Albert BADGERMoses BUSBEEVictor COLINOliver COMPTONLewis CORBINAlbert DENTON E. B. DIXON, and  Dr. Eugene R. MOREROD  biography pages.
    Added information to George W. PETTY page.
    Updated Mt. McGregor Post 252 G.A.R. page.
    Added Metz Train Depot page.
    Updated Metz, Missouri webpage.
    Otis FRANKS Drowned in Neosho River, April 1927.
    1893 newspaper story: obtaining grave markers for Civil War soldiers at Balltown Cemetery
July 2007:
    1908 Decoration Day Speech by Irl Hudson at Balltown Cemetery. 
    New biography pages on surnames BRYAN (with mention of Daniel Boone), Joseph M. MILLIGAN, and Edward L. PRICE
    Information on the former community of Zodiac on Horse Creek in Montevallo Township. 
    Updated Mt. McGregor Post 252 G.A.R. (Metz) membership list.
    Added 1917-1920 and 1936 Sheldon Enterprise Newspaper Indexes.
June 2007:
    Do You have an Old Yearbook?
    Remembering John Brown's 'Other Raid'.
    Added the 1913-1915 Metz Times newspaper index.
    Several Sheldon Enterprise newspaper indexes are now online.
    Updated program and meeting notices below.
    Most Nevada Daily Mail and Nevada Noticer newspaper indexes are online.
    New mailing address for Tri-County Genealogical Society is 212 West Walnut Street, Nevada, MO 64772. 
May 2007:
    Newspaper indexes for The Metz Times have been posted.
    Index for the 1883-1893 Birth & Death Notices from Nevada Newspapers has been posted.
    Added June meeting information below.
    Added a form for ordering copies of items from the 1887 History of Vernon County, MO.
    Metz School Alumni 2007 Newsletter  Click on Vernon Co. Towns, then on Metz.
April 2007:
    Newspaper indexes temporarily removed from website.
    Copies of The Diary of John G. Dryden, 1856-1883 are now available.
March 2007:
    Added links to Nevada State Hospital Cemetery photos and a Nevada map of cemetery location.
    Added 23 Family Group Sheets.
February 2007:
    Page on Glenwood School -- is this a photo of the Virgil Twp or Harrison Twp school?
    Newspaper article on arrival of patients at the Nevada State Hospital #3.
       Added online indexes to the following abstracted/indexed newspaper books: 1901 Nevada Daily Mail and 1901-1907, 1908-1910, 1911-1912, 1913-1916, 1921-1924 Sheldon Enterprise.  Daily life stories...visiting family, illness, moving to or from Vernon County, crime, births, deaths, etc.  Discover if your ancestor was "in the news."
January 2007:
    Added online index to 1898 Nevada Daily Mail abstracted/index newspaper book.
    New page on History of Metz Churches.
    Over 200 links on new Biographies section!
    Added Index of the Nevada State Hospital #3 book.
    Added link on Other Research Sites page to the local DAR Chapter.
    Added Biographies link to Resources page.
    Updated information and completed some 'behind the scenes' work on several pages.
December 2006:
    Additional Family Group Sheets added.
November 2006:
    The Vernon County Probate Index is back on line!  Email us for a quote on cost of copying a specific file.
    Added more Family Group Sheets.  And more. 
    Added new Family Group Sheet.
    Added transcription of 1887 Circuit Court document regarding George Withers robbing Petty's store in Metz.
    Organized and categorized Research Sites.
    Added Mt. McGregor Post No. 252 G.A.R. information.
    Vernon Co has thousands of new reasons to celebrate Family History Month.
    Added Metz Times story of 1893 Burglary of Dr. Petty's Store.
    Added information on Little Osage or "Balltown".
October 2006:
    Additional Family Group Sheets added.
    Added online index to abstracted Beeny Funeral Home records.
    Added online indexes of 4 Lamar Democrat, Barton Co, MO, abstracted newspaper books.
    Added online indexes of 7 Nevada Daily Mail abstracted newspaper books.
    Added online indexes of 4 Metz Times abstracted newspaper books.
September 2006:
    Added Waggoner Funeral Home Records (Harwood, MO) to Genealogy Dept and online index.
    Added link to Vernon Co microfilmed records at Missouri State Archives.
    15 new newspaper indexes added to Nevada Library Genealogy Dept.
       Moundville history told by local author.
       Updated Society Membership Form.
       New Family Group Sheets added.
August 2006:
       Added link to Maps of Vernon Co Townships.  [County has since removed their maps.]
July 2006:
       Book review of new Moundville, MO history book.
       New newspaper indexes and books for sale.
       New Family Group Sheet added.
       Microfilm of Official County Records added to Genealogy Dept.
       Added SSDI link to Researching Deaths info.
June 2006:
       Moundville, Missouri 1860-1910 history book.
       New Family Group Sheets added.
May 2006:
       How to obtain Nevada State Hospital #3 medical records.
       Family Group Sheet Project now working.
       Added Metz School Reunion Information.
       Added status of Projects.
April 2006:
       Metz School information.
       Published Genealogies listed.
       3 new Nevada Noticer Indexes added.
       Missouri Death Index links.
       Several new Metz and Rinehart photo pages.
       2005 Plat Book ordering information.
       Petty and Robinson Metz businesses.
       Halley's Bluff link.
       Posted Family Group Sheets.
March 2006:
       7 new Nevada Daily Mail Newspaper Indexes.
       Missouri resources.
       Family Group Sheet project.
       4 new Metz Times Newspaper Indexes.
February 2006:
       Listed additional resources in Nevada Library Genealogy Dept.
       Updated broken links.
       Added Cedar County, Missouri resources.
       Added details for researching deaths in Vernon County.
 
 

 

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