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ISBN-10150894573X
ISBN-139781508945734
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Book TitleSouth Callaway Missouri : Pioneer Settlers and Settlements
Number of Pages194 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicNorth America
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorWilliam Nash Moore
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight20.4 Oz
Item Length11 in
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SynopsisHistory of South Callaway, Missouri, originally published in the Mokane Herald-Post in 1903, detailed stories of hundreds of Callaway County pioneers includes genealogy tracing three or four generations. Family histories are brought to life by by a 73 year-old native Callawegian who grew up with the new county and knew everyone for miles around. A partial list of the families included: Allen, Bagby, Baker, Bartley, Bennett, Benson, Billingsly, Blackburn, Brite, Brooks, Brown, Bryan, Caldwell, Chappell, Cleveland, Coats, Coblenz, Coats, Collier, Conger, Daugherty, Davis, Dickinson, Dollar, Doyal, Duncan, Dunlap, Elley, Ewens, Ewing, Ferguson, Ferree, Gathright, Gibbs, Gilling, Glover, Grant, Gray, Griffin, Hansard, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Herring, Hinton, Holman, Hopkins, Hord, Hornbuckle, Humphrey, Jackson, Jones, Kemp, Kouns, Lock, Longley, Lynes, Martin, Mason, McCall, McGary, Michael, Moore, Mosley, Nance, Nash, Neal, Nichols, Nicholson, Nickell, Oliver, Payne, Pemberton, Pierce, Putnam, Ramsey, Ratekin, Robiou, Rogers, Rose, Roy, Sanders, Scott, Smart, Smith, Stephens, Stone, Straw, Strickland, Tarelton, Tarleton, Taylor, Tennyson, Thomas, Turner, Wadley, Waggoner, Walker, Weaver, Whanger, Wheeler, Whyte, Wilkerson, Williams, Wrenn, Wright, Wylie, Young, Yount, Zumalt. Details of the founding and first settlers of Callaway County Missouri towns and villages include Cote Sans Dessien, Portland, Barkersville, Steedman, Tebbetts, Mokane, Smith's Landing, St. Aubert, and others. Descriptions of pioneer life include land clearing, flax and cotton growing, harvesting, and step-by-step cleaning and preparing for spinning and weaving into cloth. Stories of the abundant wildlife include hunting and trapping and touch on the disappearance of animals already experienced in the early 1900's. Other chapters cover the first one-room school houses, the founding of early churches, brush-arbor revivals, feuds between neighbors and family members, elections, politics, and cider making, log cabin building, shingle making, sawmills, steam mills, the Callaway Mining Company, land sales, trades and tranfers, road building, bridge building, corn shuckings, steam boats, keel boats, flat boats, river trade, Indians, and more., History of South Callaway, Missouri, originally published in the Mokane Herald-Post in 1903, detailed stories of hundreds of Callaway County pioneers includes genealogy tracing three or four generations. Family histories are brought to life by by a 73 year-old native Callawegian who grew up with the new county and knew everyone for miles around. A partial list of the families included: Allen, Bagby, Baker, Bartley, Bennett, Benson, Billingsly, Blackburn, Brite, Brooks, Brown, Bryan, Caldwell, Chappell, Cleveland, Coats, Coblenz, Coats, Collier, Conger, Daugherty, Davis, Dickinson, Dollar, Doyal, Duncan, Dunlap, Elley,Ewens, Ewing, Ferguson, Ferree, Gathright, Gibbs, Gilling, Glover, Grant, Gray, Griffin, Hansard, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Herring, Hinton, Holman, Hopkins, Hord, Hornbuckle, Humphrey, Jackson, Jones, Kemp, Kouns, Lock, Longley, Lynes, Martin, Mason, McCall, McGary, Michael, Moore, Mosley, Nance, Nash, Neal, Nichols, Nicholson, Nickell, Oliver, Payne, Pemberton, Pierce, Putnam, Ramsey, Ratekin, Robiou, Rogers, Rose, Roy, Sanders, Scott, Smart, Smith, Stephens, Stone, Straw, Strickland, Tarelton, Tarleton, Taylor, Tennyson, Thomas, Turner, Wadley, Waggoner, Walker, Weaver, Whanger, Wheeler, Whyte, Wilkerson, Williams, Wrenn, Wright, Wylie, Young, Yount, Zumalt. Details of the founding and first settlers of Callaway County Missouri towns and villages include Cote Sans Dessien, Portland, Barkersville, Steedman, Tebbetts, Mokane, Smith's Landing, St. Aubert, and others. Descriptions of pioneer life include land clearing, flax and cotton growing, harvesting, and step-by-step cleaning and preparing for spinning and weaving into cloth. Stories of the abundant wildlife include hunting and trapping and touch on the disappearance of animals already experienced in the early 1900's. Other chapters cover the first one-room school houses, the founding of early churches, brush-arbor revivals, feuds between neighbors and family members, elections, politics, and cider making, log cabin building, shingle making, sawmills, steam mills, the Callaway Mining Company, land sales, trades and tranfers, road building, bridge building, corn shuckings, steam boats, keel boats, flat boats, river trade, Indians, and more.
