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June 21, 2010

Excerpts from the Winter edition of Echo added
Excerpts from the Spring edition of Echo added
Excerpts from the Summer edition of Echo added
WWII era clippings, including pictures, added
Obit/Estate clippings added for:
     May Rule Birkhead
     Lem Howlett
     Elmer E. McCune
     Homer C. Smith
     Laura Robinson Johnson
     Belle C. Kennedy
     William Quaite, Jr.
Surnames added 
John Walter Basye
bio added 
Names and photos added for Fairview Grassy Creek Cemetery 
More Rootsweb Riches mined:
     "Time Lines and Chronologies "
     "Demystifying RootsWeb's Message Boards"
Obituary Index added for: 
     1910 
     1911 
     1912
     1913 
     1914 
Marriage License added for Thomas Ince & Alice Fields 

October 23, 2009

Martin Family added

October 18, 2009

Blurbs from the Summer and Fall Echo added
Obituary Index
added for 1915, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923 
New Harmony Ball Team picture added 
More Rootsweb Riches
mined - "Copyrights"
Surnames
added 
Add'l info
on Capt. John and William Whitledge added 
Add'l articles
added to M.O. Biggs obit page 
Marriage Announcements added:
     19??-Hopkins-Westermann
     1942-Lamme-Stevens
     1948-Langford-Clithero
     19??-Lewis-Wright
     1940-Reading-Waddell
     1970-Smith-Ford
     1970-Tipton-Brandenburger
     1935-McNeil-McPike
Obituaries Added:
     BALL, Victoria (Wright)
     BARRETT, Frank
     BARTLETT, Rufus E.
     BAXTER, Irene May (Adams)
     BEASLEY, Susan (Reid)
     BENN, Ora M.
     CALDWELL, J.H. - abt 1845 - 1935
     CAMPBELL, Rev. Richard T.
     CARVER, Anna Kay (Hiles)
     CASH, James Elliott
     CASH, Jennie (Waddell)
     CAVERLY, Edna Willena (Calhoun)
     CLITHERO, Ella (Steele)
     COLLINS, Harry Edward
     CROW, W.L.
     CRUM, John B.
     CULLERS, James
     DANIEL, Jim K.
     DOWNING, Robert E.
     DOYLE, Ernest
     DUVALL, Frank J.
     ELMORE, Rev. Robert Orange
     ELY, Ben S.
     ENGLAND, Charles
     FEATHER, Charlie Dale
     FRANK, Albert
     GARNETT, Anna Belle (King)
     GIDNEY, Mattie (Powell)
     GOODMAN, Lyle
     GRAFFORD, James William
     HALL, William Taylor
     HANSON, Fred E.
     HENDRIX, Pearl (Green)
     HOLTWICK, Milton
     INGRAM, William Oscar
     KELLER, William Carl
     LIBBY, Mack
     MADDOX, Mary Gretchen (Pollard)
     McDOWELL, Elizabeth (Creech)
     MITCHELL, Dr. Charles B.
     MUDD, Smiley
     NUNN, William Smith "Ted"
     PARGEON, Ralph Eugene
     PARKER, Frank James
     REED, Frank
     RICKARD, Mrs. Jim (McGuire)
     RIEMAN, Mary Ellen "Mae"
     SCHERDER, Wilmer Louis
     SCHUPBACH, Della Hazel (Beshears)
     SHEPHERD, Clarence
     SIDWELL, Mary LA (Boyd)
     SMITH, Permelia Jane (Rice)
     SPARKS, Lee
     STEVENS, Helen (Henderson)
     SUMMERS, Richard Lawrence
     TIPTON, Harve V.
     TROWER, Emma Clever (Rutherford)
     VOSS, Fred
     WADDELL, Marion Henry
     WADDELL, Ovid Thomas
     WHITE, Isaac W.
     WILSON, Genevieve Catherine (Adams)
     WORTHINGTON, Lillian Gillum (Wilson)

Obituary photo of F.W. English added 
News Clippings Added:
     1932-Tidbits
     1940-Birth
     1946-Births
     1962-Tri-County Postmasters Meet
     1962-Mrs Kilby, Miss Yancy Give Hat Lessons
     1940-Calumet Church in All Day Meeting
     1935-Tom Motley for County 
                    Superintendent of Schools
     1935-Year-end Review 
                    (includes many births and deaths) 
     1941-Albert Buchanan Injured
     19??-Wreck in Which Local Resident 
                    Lost His Life
     19??-Kannapell birth
     1933-Scene of Fatal Accident West of Curryville
     1933-Car Kills Horse and Driver on Highway 54
     1943-Mrs. J.R. Reading to teach Fourth Grade
     1942-Garnet Worthington Ordained

September 21, 2009

2009 Siloam Cemetery Newsletter added 
Turner Carver Cemetery added 
Names added
for Antioch Presbyterian Cemetery 
RootsWeb Riches
mined  
Obituaries Added: 

     FINK, John A.

September 20, 2009

Surnames Added 
Added Bio for William N. Allen 
Obituaries Added:

     ADAMS, Claude W. 
     ALFORD, Susie (McPike)
     BANISTER, Frank
     BARRETT, Asa Samuel
     BARRETT, Benjamin Harrison 
     BAYSE, Edwin Smith 
     BEEDLE, Claude 
     BEEDLE, Janie (JAMES) 
     BIBB, Opal Earl (BURKS) 
     BLACKWELL, Henry Y. 
     BONDURANT, Martha Jane 
     BRANSTETTER, Irene (ORR) 
     BRANSTETTER, William Henry "Will" 
     BROWN, Francis "Scotty" 
     BUCHANAN, Alice (Hudson) 
     BUENEMAN, Tom John
     CALDWELL, Mrs. W.G. 
     CALDWELL, Walter Guy 
     CHAMBERLAIN, Floyd Willard 
     CHILSON, Arthur 
     CLITHERO, Kinsey Whitten 
     COLLINS, Mrs. Bob 
     COLLINS, Pearl
     CRAGEN, George G.
     DAVIDSON, Mrs. LeRoy W.
     DIECKMANN, Albert Benjamin "Ben" 
     DIXON, Ralph 
     DOWNING, A.J.
     DREON, Dora Virginia (McGEORGE) 
     DUNBAR, Annola B 
     EASTIN, Annie Lizzie (HENDERSON) 
    
ELMORE, T.J.
     FRAY, Nina B (Rowland) 
     GATES, James K.
     GLASCOCK, J.B.
     GRIGGS, Abram Thomas "Abe" 
     HANSON, Lloyd Franklin 
     HAUGHT, Margaret Elizabeth (campbell) 
     HENDERSON, Wayne Lee 
     HERREN, Sterling
     HOPKE, Margaret B. (UPTEGROVE) 
     HUEBNER, Scott 
     JARBOE, Ruby Lee (King)
     JOHNSON, Lorene
     JOHNSTON, Sarah Elizabeth (KILBY) 
     KERR, Gordon Eugene 
     KILBY, Mary Susie (SINKHORN) 
     KINDRED, Mary Agnes (ROSE) 
     KING, David
     KLEPPISCH, William Edwin 
     LATIMER, Mary Ellen (MUDD) 
     LEWIS, Ezra 
     LINDSAY, James Box 
     LUEBRECHT, Henry Martin 
     LUEBRECHT, Joseph John 
     McCANN, Edna Earl (Grigsby)
     McDONALD, Jesse
     McGEE, Emma 
     McPIKE, Benjamin Bryant
     METTLER, Emma (Steel)
     MEYER, Paul H. 
     MEYER, William C. 
     MICHIE, Dorothy Margaret (Emmer) 
     MITCHELL, Elizabeth M. (Brown)
     MITCHELL, Jessie (Mathews)
     MORRIS, Julia W. (TROWER) 
     MOSELEY, Helen (SANDERSON) (GIBBS) 
     OBERDAHLHOFF, Margaret Matilda (FELDMAN) 
     ORF, Marlin E 
     PARSONS, Blanche (HARRELSON) 
     PRITCHETT, Orien R.
     RAUFER, Henry G. 
     REED, Matilda (CHAMBERLAIN) 
     ROBERTS, Jeremiah
     ROBERTS, Lucy Mildred (FAGG)
     ROGERS, Mary L. (Michaels)
     ROSE, Mrs. Leon (LEWIS) 
     ROSE, Sylvanus Marvin 
     ROBY, Jacob Holmes
     SHINN, Fred
     SMILEY, George Monroe
     SPARKS, Frank
     STINSON, Julia Ann (Lester)
     STRADOR, Jasper Lee 
     STRAUBE, Bennett C 
     SUTTON, Sophronia (CLIFTON) 
     TAYLOR, Frank
     THOMAS, Billy Wayne
     TOMBS, Perry 
     TRIBBLE, Elmer
     WADDELL, William Henry
     WAGNER, John Elmer 
     WARE, Mary Elizabeth (Kirtley)
     WATTERS, Hazel Darline 
     WILLIAMSON, Byron Victor 
     WOOD, Mrs. Hayden (Teague)
     WRIGHT, D.B. "Bem" 
News Clippings Added:
     1971-Baxter Infant Christened
     19??-Spegals Guests of Mrs. Forrest Janes
     1960-Local Band Attended
                    State Music Festival
     1960-Bowling Green Schools
                    to operate on D.S.T.
     1960-Emerson to Speak at
                    Republican Club Meeting
     1949-A Daughter
     1952-Extension Club Meets
     1949-Entered Hospital
     1949-Entertained For Dinner
     1952-Mr and Mrs Houchins Celebrate
                    Anniversary
     1972-Volunteers Plant Crops for Mrs. McDonald
     1941-Trower-Kilby Reunion
     19??-Abner Flansburg Gets Quick Justice
     1948-Double Celebration
     1941-Tidbits
     1941-Entertain With A Dinner
     1940-Glascock Honored at Dinner by Friends
     1940-Tidbits
     Various-Advertisements
     1947-Tidbits
     1947-Births
     1947-American Legion
     1947-B.P.W.C. Hold June Meeting
     1947-Urges Farmers to Register Opinion
     1947-Flood Area Imperiled
     1947-Frankford News
     1947-Louisville News
     1947-Pleasant Valley News
     1947-Plan Masonic Temple Here
     1947-St. Clement Picnic August 6th
     1947-Another Queen Entry
                    For Pike County Fair
     1947-Sick Folks
     1947-Visiting Homefolks
     1944-Tidbits
     1949-Tidbits
     19??-Tidbits
     1933-Breaks Both Legs in Fall
     19??-Baby Boy Coose Born
     1940-Baby Boy Williams Born
     19??-Miss Ladley Complimented With Party
Obituary photos added from newly discovered collection
Marriage Announcements added:
     1948 Barrow-Dutton
     19?? Birkhead-Sisson
     19?? Blackshaw-McCune
     1947-Hall-Oliver
     1947-Holle-Middleton
     1936 Jordan-Waters
     1947-Kerr-Hiles
     19?? Kincaid-Cuthbertson
     1949-Kurz-Blasingame
     1966 Mangan-Smith
     1947-Oberdahlhoff-Dixon
     1948 Painter-Pettey
     1966 Reading-Graves
     1944-Toombs-Harlow
     1947-Walker-Chamberlain
     1947-Williams-Kannapell
     1947-Williamson-Palmer
     1940 Wilson-Moore
New Pictures Added:
     2004 First Presbyterian Sunday School class
     Claiborne Gillum
     Flo Bryant
     Tommy Winkle
     Ruth Crenshaw & Tommy Winkle
     R.B. Scholl & Mildred Gillum
     Clarksville High School - Oct 1929
     Thurmond Cooper
     Luther C. Parker
     Ruth Crenshaw
     Ruth Crenshaw & Tiny Blackman

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New Researchers Added For:

October 2009
Herriman Hogue
Houchins Martin
June 2010
Creech Emery
Ince Marshall
Mobley Robinson

 

 

Marriages

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No-Longer-A-Mystery Marriage License  

Do you have a marriage announcement or 
license you would like to add? We are now 
adding actual announcements and licenses 
to our listings. 
You can see an announcement example here.
You can see a license example here.

Bios and

Sketches

John Walter Basye

Buffum Tool Company

Curry Family

Hughey A. Henry

O'Brien Pictures (& Article)

William Patterson - 1759-1847

The Price Family in Pike County

Sketch of Miles S. Price

John E. Scott

Scott's Spring

David Tombs

News 

Here you will find bits, pieces and clippings from old newspapers. These give us wonderful glimpses into the lives of our ancestors. If you have any newspaper stories/clippings you would like to add, please forward them to Rhonda Stolte Darnell.

Please be considerate and do not forward material 
which is copyrighted by someone else.

Census

1860 Indian Creek Township  
Pike County Poor Farm: 1870-1920 
1870 Census Index by Township 
Census Questions by year

Missouri Death Certificates, 
1910 – 1955 Now Online!

There are links to most images and
they will send you photocopies of the others for only $1.00 each!

Obituaries

 

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We are happy to add actual obituaries - transcription and/or a scanned image to our listings. 

If you have an obituary you would like to add, 
you may send it to Rhonda
Please include the date and name of 
the newspaper in which it was published.

We have a partial listing of the obituaries available at our library. You may see a list of them here.

Churches and 
Cemeteries

 

Our cemetery pages include: 

  • some with complete census listings.

  • tombstone pictures on some.

  • a few just have pictures of the cemetery.

We truly hope you find what you are looking for, but please keep in mind our offerings are only as good as our contributions! If you have pictures or listings, we would be more than happy to receive them. You can always email them to us!

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Perpetual Calendar
Brick Wall Mysteries

We have added a section in which PCGS 
members are welcome to list their personal
"Brick Walls". If someone receives a tip which
helps break their brick wall, we would love to hear
about it and will post it with the original mystery!

Includes:
Mystery Marriage License SOLVED!
Dickie, Who was this small, one-armed boy?
Felix Buchanan - Where did he go? SOLVED!
Cox / Kull - Who does this Bible belong to?

 

Research Volunteer:

Sam Silvey at sgorty@qwest.net

Sam says: As I live in Utah now I would be willing from time to time be able to help researchers that have a need to access the Salt Lake City LDS Family History Library information. I commute to Salt Lake once or twice a week and if a need arises I can make time to visit and get information or copies.

 

Townships

The townships of this part of Missouri were once divided into four great divisions (when Pike County was still part of the Louisiana Purchase), known as Cape Girardeau, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Louis and Saint Charles. Once Pike County was established in 1818, it contained four of its own townships: Buffalo, Calumet, Mason and Peno. In 1981 there are 10 townships within Pike County, legally designated as Ashley, Buffalo, Calumet, Cuivre, Hartford, Indian, Peno, Prairieville, Salt River and Spencer.


More Sources of Information


What Does That Mean?


Pike County Poor Farm Cemetery Restoration information
WWII POW Camp in Louisiana, MO Gone - and, too often, forgotten
Orphan Train Preservationists fight for old cemeteries
Amish in Pike County 1913 letter from Louisa Petty Milburn
Shortline Railroad 1809 Newspaper Article
Bond for the Building of the Bethlehem Meeting Article Shorts from the Middletown Chips, pub. July 17, 1930
          House & Commissioners Order Article Shorts from the Middletown Chips, pub. May 22, 1930
Probate Information Pike's Past Lost in the Woods
History of Old  Buffalo Fort 1813 Letter to Secretary of War

1910 Letter from Chicaskia Stock Farm to Mr. M.O. Biggs
Photos from Around the County - Both new and old 1911 Letter from E. C. Long Mfg. Co. to Dr. M. O. Biggs
County Churches Articles from the Bowling Green Times
Louisiana Murals Article Reporting Jordans Killed by Indians
Old Post Cards of Pike County News Clippings from the Past
World War II News Clippings including pictures of soldiers


My Journey by Audrey Jones Pictures Shared by our Friends 
How Christmas Came to the Poor House.... Who Are These People and Where Are They?
Fair weather stories What?  Where?  Who?

Pictures were found in the attic of the Biggs' House
Pike County US GenWeb Site Pictures donated by Bertha Marshall

New Hartford School Pictures
Research by Bowen A. Rogers regarding Louisiana cemeteries

Civil War Soldiers from Pike County
Riches Mined from the RootsWeb Review
How to Communicate Effectively in Genealogy Little Africa
Photography - History and Preservation

 

Family Pages
Bayse  
Jamison 

Kerley Family 
Lamberson 
LowAry Home Page 
Marilyn Hudson Moore Home Page 
Martin Family 
Mulherin
(Contact Patricia T. for access) 
Mulherin 
Roberts-Hammond 
Whitledge, etc. 

 

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For an appointment, call
Audrey - (573) 470-9880
Judy - (573) 324-5778

For information about the Pike County Genealogical Society or to request research, please contact Audrey Jones.

To request information be added or removed from the website, or if you have questions about the website itself, please contact Rhonda Darnell.

 

Benefits to Members:
Free use of the Genealogy Library
4 issues of The Pike County Missouri Echo (or available for $4/issue)
One free query per year
You may submit your ancestor's biographical sketch for publication in the Echo
Have your "Brick Wall Mystery" listed on this website

Membership year: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31
Individual membership only $10.00
Household membership only $15.00

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The charter for the Pike County Missouri Genealogical Society as a non-profit corporation was granted in 1997 under Mo. Code 355 RSMO. The Society's purpose is to preserve the history of the people of  Pike County, to aid researchers in their quest for information on their ancestors in Pike County, and to teach and encourage new researchers. 

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month (except December) at 1:30 p.m. at the Genealogy Library at 205 West Main, Bowling Green, MO.  You can find some minutes of meetings by clicking here.

Current officers are: Sharon Coose, President; Dorothy McCarthy, Vice President; Pat Lynn, Secretary; Marilyn Johnson, Treasurer.

 

 

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