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| Name: | rosie langley pate |
| E-mail address: | pate_glenn@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i am searching for langleys from ky.to ar.salene co. |
| Name: | Shawn Atherton |
| E-mail address: | drislayer@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Francis (Frank) A. Duncan and Mary E. Ingold were early ancestors in my family. They lived in West Plains, and had about 14 children. I am looking for photographs or letters or just further information about Frank and Mary.
I was able to find a file of Frank's death certificate. It says that he died of what is now considered to be Kidney failure. The certificate also uncovered the fact that he was born in St. Clair county, Illinois. There was a Francis Duncan who lived with a Sylathal (marked as Lafayette) and Mary Duncan in the 1870 census. Sylathal was a son of a farmer and war veteran named Abraham Duncan whose father was a Revolutionary war veteran. Abrah Duncan was a sergeant in a company of Calvary men with his brothers. One of whom served as a Lieutenant and later became a Mormon. |
| Name: | Patricia S. Ball |
| E-mail address: | psball@mchsi.com |
| Comments: | IMy GrandMother's family lived in West Plains and owned Bohrer Drug Store. Also family members by the name of Druesillis Waldrope Jordan Thomas lived there. Malissa Thomas Geer lived there as well. Also the Aldride Family and Garrett Family. Would love information on any of my family members.
Thank you Patricia Ball |
| Name: | Marsha Hoelscher |
| E-mail address: | marshahoelscher@gmail.com |
| Comments: | searching my Barnett and Karr family lines |
| Name: | Connie Schachel |
| E-mail address: | 2schachels@live.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://howell.mogenweb.org |
| Comments: | This guest book has been very quiet through our long, hot summer. I've been busy, though, doing some updates to the site, adding some family histories submitted to me and doing an occasional look up.
At the moment, we're trying to find the location of the homestead of the late Charles Hoffman who died at the age of 86 in 1955. Anyone with information, please contact me. |
| Name: | Barb |
| E-mail address: | hannahba@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'm hoping someone can help me find my relative, Ken Happy Clough Mahorney. I met a relative at a Clough reunion and she told me that Ken Happy (a woman) was buried in West Plains in a beautiful little church and cemetery. Her daughter, Ella Mae Hunsperger is buried in the Wayside Cemetery. Thanks for any help. |
| Name: | Barbara Burton Baker |
| Name: | Barbara Burton Baker |
| E-mail address: | bakerbarbo@aol.com |
| Comments: | My great-great grandfather, Thomas D. Burton, came to Howell county around 1858/9 and settled in the South Fork community. His son, Lemuel, married Harrriet N. Cooper (sister of Marcus Alexander Cooper) and my grandfather, John Thomas Burton, married Berta Frances Martin of West Plains. So the early Burtons, Coopers and Martins of Howell County are of great interest to me as I research my family tree. Thanks for the work you have done on this site. It is greatly appreciated my me. |
| Name: | Pam and Adam Jenner |
| E-mail address: | gennrztree@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http.:// |
| Comments: | Hello Howell County! Very happy to have this method to communicate with people there. We have several families connected to West Plains. We are in St. Charles, so if we can help any of you with info out here, please let us know. We're looking for info on our GGG grandmother, Drusilla Waldrop Jordan Thomas. We come in off her branch of Jordans. Other surnames we're researching: Hamilton, Geer, Lambert, Morgan, Aldridge, Rice. Thanks for letting us post on here!
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| Name: | patricia crawford |
| E-mail address: | patagay1234@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | A very good job on your site, although i didn't find a surname list. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Mabel Alverson |
| E-mail address: | mAbelalversonriolind@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I did not think that I could back through to this Dreambook. I am still looking for information on a lot of my cousins that may still live down that way. I born and raised in West Plains and I would love to be able to go back and visit some time. The reason that I am looking for my cousins is that I am hoping that some of them may have some pictures of me when I was small and maybe in one of the little one room schools. I would also like to find out if someone may have or know where I can get my yearbooks from Jr. High and High School as in all of my moving around I lost mine. So if anyone knows please email me and let me know I would appreciate it very much.
Mabel Floyd Alverson |
| Name: | pat abbey brown |
| E-mail address: | fishnchck@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'VE ENJOYED READING HOWELL COUNTY. I LIVED IN MTN.VIEW TELL I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL. OH HOW I MISS MO. I HAVE LOTS OF FAMILY IN THAT AREA. KOONCES,ABBEY,BELEW,CAMPBELL. IWENT TO COLUMBIA AND VAUGHN SCHOOLS AND THEN MTN. VIEW HIGH SCHOOL. I GRADUATED IN 1956. WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE THAT REMEMBERS THE LARGE FAMILY OF THE ABBEY'S. |
| Name: | Martha Findley |
| E-mail address: | mfind44923@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for all of the information about Howell Co. I am in the process of writing a book about the William A. Findley family who came there about 1869/70 in a wagon train from northern Georgia. Always interested in learning more about the area and its people. |
| Name: | William Smith |
| E-mail address: | gorillamarcus@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My Dad (Bill R. Smith) was born in Willow Springs He is Archie Smith's only living son other then Jack who we are trying to locate. Any info on Jack would be helpful. Thanks for the site |
| Name: | Dana Jackson |
| E-mail address: | danamiller23@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | This site is great to have and I am glad that one has been made to help people out with their research. |
| Name: | Rena' Forester Davis |
| E-mail address: | renasu@embarqmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for your hard work;very informative site! Several generations of my family were born, raised and died in Howell, Oregon counties and in MoKo, Fulton Co., Arkansas. It has also left me with many fond memories growing up as my father would always return to his family farm in Lanton, Mo. Many hours were spent walking the wooded timbers, long country lanes telling me stories of our Forester, Bench and Vincent families. Currently, I have been researching my grt. gft. grandfather, Elijah Forester (1826-1925) and have not been able to locate his final resting place. Some of my family records state he was buried in Stateline cemetery in MoKo, Arkansas; others indicate he was buried at Clifton just ouside of Thayer. We have been to Stateline numerous times since many of my family ancestors are buried there;however, have not been able to locate his grave or that of his wife, Linny England (Ingland). They were married in 1848 in Alton, Mo. Linny died in about 1882, and Elijah remarried Paralle Blankenship in 1883. According to records found ealier this spring at Alton courthouse, they were divorced in 1915. Secondly, I am also in search of information regarding one of Elijah's sons, Claborn Jackson Forester, who died in Fulton Co., Arkansas in 1931. His life was without doubt very colorful to say the least and many stories have been passed down through the years. He as without a doubt a moonshiner--and not afraid to defend his family or his intoxicating hobby. He was sent to prison (Jefferson City, Mo.) for killing someone. A couple of version say the killing happened in Thayer. One version was that it was a "Revenuer" and the trial was in West Plains. I am not sure of the time period but I am not able to locate him on a 1900 or 1910 census. Some family are guessing it may have been as late as 1920-1925. I am sure there was some press time given to the case as apparently, 4-5 men were approached by the "Revenuer" -- one being Claborn and apparently, shooting took place and since there was no positive proof of whose bullet killed the man the judge sentenced all the men. Claborn was sentence 10 years but it is said he didn't serve the complete term. Any help anyone can give me regarding this two men would be greatly appreciated--and please feel welcome to contact me directly at the above e-mail regarding this or any inquiries you may have regarding the above mentioned families. God Bless! |
| Name: | Eileen Daley |
| E-mail address: | susiedaley33@verizon.net |
| Comments: | I've long searched for the death and burial location of my two aunts Martha Daley Phillips and Catherine Daley Holloway. Thanks to the listings for deaths through 1958, I have finally located them. Thank You for all your work. |
| Name: | Donna Ross Berry |
| E-mail address: | littlewhiskers3@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | my family Ross is from Falling Springs & Alton Missouri, some are in Thayer . Along with the Taylors from that area. thank you Donna Ross Berry |
| Name: | Connie Schachel |
| E-mail address: | 2schachels@live.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://howell.mogenweb.org |
| Comments: | Hello, I've recently taken over as the Howell County Missouri Gen Web Coordinator. I'll do my best to present information that is of relevance and interest to genealogy researchers. The site and its parts are a work in progress. As information is learned, it will be added.
Feel free to submit Howell County family histories, family trees or other information that may be of importance to other researchers. We all need to help one another! |
| Name: | Wendy Anderson |
| E-mail address: | wanderson330@netscape.net |
| Comments: | My Grandmother and mother were from West Plains, Mo. I will enjoy investigating your website.
Wendy |
| Name: | Wendy Anderson |
| E-mail address: | wanderson330@netscape.net |
| Comments: | My Grandmother and mother were from West Plains, Mo. I will enjoy investigating your website.
Wendy |
| Name: | Barbara McCallon |
| E-mail address: | astrocats@gmail.com |
| Name: | Donita Barkley |
| E-mail address: | djbarkley1949@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://howell.mogenweb.org |
| Comments: | Hi, everyone that's posted recently. I'm glad you like the website. I encourage you to contribute your obituaries, photos, anything else to me at the email address shown here, or you can click on the EMAIL icon on the main index page.
When you find a broken link (picture, etc) email me and let me know exactly where it is. Also, when writing to me about specific graves, etc. be sure and tell me which cemetery it's in. Thanks, Donita |
| Name: | Donita Barkley |
| E-mail address: | djbarkley1949@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://howell.mogenweb.org |
| Comments: | Hi, everyone that's posted recently. I'm glad you like the website. I encourage you to contribute your obituaries, photos, anything else to me at the email address shown here, or you can click on the EMAIL icon on the main index page.
When you find a broken link (picture, etc) email me and let me know exactly where it is. Also, when writing to me about specific graves, etc. be sure and tell me which cemetery it's in. Thanks, Donita |
| Name: | Connie Schachel |
| E-mail address: | 2schachels@live.com |
| Comments: | We are new to Howell County, and live near Pomona. I was disappointed to find that pictures of the fruit operations at Olden and Pomona are broken.
Would sure appreciate copies of them as I am so interested in history. |
| Name: | Randy Summers |
| E-mail address: | summersrandy@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I just wanted to let you know that I live in West Plains and that my family goes back to before Howell County was actually a county. A lot of the records would be found in Alton because a lot of the land was in Oregon County before Howell was established. I like the website too. |
| Name: | Timothy Langston |
| E-mail address: | stl6281c@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for all the hard work. I live in the St Louis area but many of my relatives still live in Howell Co. Woodson Easley is one of my Great great grandfathers, Hezekiah Forrest is one of my ggg grangfathers and my name comes from the line of Mangram E Langston So I have enjoyed reading about many of my family members.
Tim Langston |
| Name: | Ann (Phipps) Gentry |
| E-mail address: | ngentry@centurytel.net |
| Name: | Ann (Phipps) Gentry |
| E-mail address: | ngentry@centurytel.net |
| Comments: | I've enjoyed looking at this web site, I have relatives in so many of these cemeteries and know so many from the past. How can I add a picture or obituary for my parents? Thank You |
| Name: | Anna L Gomez |
| E-mail address: | annalee34@aol.com |
| Comments: | This wonderful informaation , I will enjoy it as soon as I can.I am related to John C Bollinger ,Willow Springs. Also Nancy Mary Smith ,from Tennesse. i am also related to Issac Garner and Ellen Bollinger. |
| Name: | Sandy White |
| E-mail address: | justsandy2@aol.com |
| Comments: | Looking for info on White/Whiteaker of West Plains. My paternal grandfather was born and married there. |
| Name: | Shirley Ross |
| E-mail address: | rsr126@aol.com |
| Comments: | Looking for Loronzo Cisro Martin and Cordelia (Moore) family, also Curt Mitchell and Jessie (Martin)families that lived around the Mt view area. Thanks |
| Name: | Donita Barkley |
| E-mail address: | djbarkley1949@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi! I am the new coordinator of the Howell county MoGenWeb site. Would you mind telling me how I can register with Dreambook so I can direct signers to the site and to my email? |
| Name: | Donita Barkley |
| E-mail address: | djbarkley1949@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Test |
| Name: | Sharon Dering |
| E-mail address: | mikedering@netzero.com |
| Comments: | I came upon this site and was looking for information on the Eldringhoff side. My grandparents lived in White Church. If anyone has any information about the Eldringhoff's would you please email me.
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| Name: | kgd |
| E-mail address: | kgdougherty@netzero.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pioneer.lib.ok.us |
| Comments: | I am trying to find where my GGG grandmother, Lavenia unknown, b. about 1825 TN, is buried. She married Jesse Carter, b. 1822 TN or KY. I find them in 1850 census McMinn Co,TN with my gg grandfather,2 year old Houston Carter. In Jesse's pension papers it has information that Lavenia died between 1854-56 in Howell Co,MO. In his pension papers it says that Woodson Easley & Rutheford Easley Moody,Howell Co,MO. would know of her death. I don't know if this is a funeral home or her or Jesse's lawyers or just friends or relatives. I would appreciate any help I can get. |
| Name: | Ralph E. Hoover |
| E-mail address: | rehoo@blomand.net |
| Comments: | I am looking for people by the name of Wolfe that may have moved from Tennessee, as my mother`s name was Wolfe.
Thanks R.H. |
| Name: | randy stokes |
| E-mail address: | randy_stokes@wr.com |
| Comments: | left Willow springs 1960 or 1961, born 1954 started school in Willow, Springs Son of Nellie Stokes |
| Name: | randy stokes |
| E-mail address: | randy_stokes@wr.com |
| Name: | Flossie Owens |
| E-mail address: | ganmor@tstar.net |
| Comments: | Does any one know anything about Mrs Amanda Brannock who married David B. Harlan 26 Nov 1882 Howell Co. Mo. What happened to her? She had a child by him Fidela Winna Harlan born 7 June 1883
Flossie Owens (g-grandaughter of David B. Harlan and 1st wife Elizabeth Dorris. Elizabeth died 2 Sep 1878 West Plains, Mo. in Sawmill accident. Supposed to be buried in Dripping springs Cemetery...... |
| Name: | Mabel Alverson |
| E-mail address: | mabelalversonriolind@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I really like this website. I used to live in West Plains and grew up there and I have found out quite a bit of information on my mother's side of the family but not all that I would like. I hope to make a trip back there and go to the Court House and go through a lot of the records and see what else I can find out. The names that I am looking for are Upchurch, Walker,Roberson,Neal. So I hope that someone knows something about some of these.
Mabel Alverson |
| Name: | Cathy L. Deatherage |
| E-mail address: | Sumerbreze2003@webtv.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for all the helpful information you have on this site. Just wish I could have gotten on the list of funeral homes and directory lists.
But it has been very helpful. Thank You again. Cathy L. Deatherage |
| Name: | RICHARD TOYA |
| E-mail address: | RNBXPRESS@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | I HAVE FAMILY IN WILLOW SPRINGS AND I VISIT THERE VERY OFTEN. I WILL BE IN THE AREA ON THE 4TH OF JULY AND FOR DEER SEASON. I HOPE TO RETIRE IN THAT AREA ONE DAY. |
| Name: | Russell A. Dorrell |
| E-mail address: | chargerrt68@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: |
LOOKING FOR INFO ON MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, DAISY BELL STRAIN.SHE WAS FROM WILLOW SPRINGS FROM WHAT MY DAD TOLD ME. STRAIN WAS HER MAIDEN NAME. |
| Name: | Cathy L. Deatherage |
| E-mail address: | Sumerbreze2003@webtv.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for all your help. |
| Name: | Tom Caldwell |
| E-mail address: | coldspring@wpcs.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://geocities.com/ozarksleague |
| Comments: | Nice site and some good info.
I have been trying to gather up some info on the fraternal history of Howell County and particularly West Plains. I would appreciate anything that is related to any organization, whether it is still viable or not. I know that in 1910 there were over twenty fraternal groups in West Plains. Groups like the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knight of Pythias, Knights Templar, Grand Army of the Republic, Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, Rebekahs, Eastern Star, and others. Most everyone that is involved in geneaological research will eventually trace their ancestors to being involved in some group or another. |
| Name: | Susan Russell Simone |
| E-mail address: | cssimone@valink.com |
| Comments: | Very nice sight,just wish there was more searchable info.
I am trying to find info.on Stephen Russell and wife, Nancy McDaris family. They lived in West Plains in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He died in 1942 and she in 1943. Stephen was a jeweler as I have letters from 1800's with his jewelry heading on them. I know that they had a son,Troy, that lived,married,and had 3 children.Other children died young.I would love to find any of Troy's family...he and his wife lived in Penn...any help is appreciated. |
| Name: | Elaine Baker |
| E-mail address: | bakerdzen@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I have just found a bunch of "West Plains Gazettes" in a box that belonged to my mother. I would be interested in passing these along. (My parents were from West Plains). These books contain a lot of family and historical photos of the area. They are dated from 1979 thru 1985 I believe. |
| Name: | JOSEPHINE MORRISON |
| E-mail address: | Jomorrison7777@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I can`t get your post queries to work for me. Any way i`m looking for my greatgrand parents that lived in West Plains or near there in the 1800 till there deaths. There last name was Everett. They had two daughters, Bell Everett and Mary Molly or Molly Mary Everett. Two sons Perry Everett and the other I don`t know his name. Mary Molly was my grandmother she died in child birth about 1900. she was married to Judson McCoy.
Thank You Josephine Morrison of Arizona jomorrison7777@hotmail.com |
| Name: | LB |
| E-mail address: | genebug3491@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swede/ |
| Comments: | Wow! Guess I'm getting old, your Red print is so hard to read. Some of your links aren't working and I'm disappointed. My Ancestors are from Howell, Dent, Pulaski and Texas Counties, wish there was more info... |