Callaway County, Missouri History and Genealogy

900 pages of Callaway County, Missouri history and genealogy including more than 650 biographies plus 44 different Callaway County, Missouri communities on 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Callaway County, Missouri on CD including three separate books on CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929: these 6 maps show a total of 44 different communities); plus the full 1884 National Historical Company "History of Callaway County, Missouri" book (900 pages of Callaway County history with over 650 different family biographies). An important resource for the study and research of Callaway County, Missouri history and genealogy, including the Civil War.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in 3 separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book one of three, all on one CD: Maps of Callaway County, Missouri
Included here are the mid central region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Callaway County, Missouri just 31 years after Callaway County was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Callaway County, Missouri showing the locations of 23 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Fulton * Guthrie * Hatton * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * New Bloomfield * North Jefferson * Portland * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Wainwright * Williamsburg *

C. A map of 1904 Callaway County, Missouri showing the locations of 41 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Boydsville * Callaway * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Cote Sans Dessein * Dixie * Earl * Effie * Elkins * Folsom * Fulton * Garrett * Guthrie * Hams Prairie * Hatton * Hereford * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * Musick * New Bloomfield * Pitcher * Portland * Prentiss * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Steedman * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Toledo * Venice * Wainwright * Williamsburg * Youngers * Yucatan *

D. A map of 1913 Callaway County, Missouri showing the locations of the townships plus 34 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Boydsville * Callaway * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Dixie * Elkins * Ellersville * Folsom * Fulton * Guthrie * Hams Prairie * Hatton * Heilburn * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * Musick * New Bloomfield * North Jefferson * Portland * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Stedman * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Toledo * Wainwright * Williamsburg *

E. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

F. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Book Two of three, all on one CD: Callaway County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Callaway County, Missouri from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information!

Book Three of three, all on one CD: The complete 1884 National Historical Company " History of Callaway County, Missouri ".
This detailed (900 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Callaway County, MO from its earliest settlement up to 1884. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Callaway County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 650 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

Introductory - First Settlements - Callaway County Organized
Pioneer Life in Callaway County, Missouri
Early Courts in Callaway County, Missouri
Callaway County and Township Systems
History of Auxvasse Township
History of Bourbon Township
History of Cedar Township
History of Cote Sans Dessein Township
History of Fulton Township
History of Liberty Township
History of Nine Mile Prairie Township
History of Round Prairie Township
History of St. Aubert Township
History of Caldwell, Calwood and Jackson Townships
Bench and Bar of Callaway County, Missouri
Crimes, Suicides and Incidents in Callaway County, Missouri
State Institutions For Deaf and Dumb - Lunatic Asylum in Fulton, Missouri
History of Westminster College - Syndocal Female College in Fulton, Missouri
The War of 1812
The Black Hawk War
The Mexican War
The Civil War in Callaway County, Missouri
Callaway County, Missouri Press - Railroads and Public Schools
Callaway County, Missouri Political History and Elections
Old Settlers' Meeting
Agricultural Societies - Jefferson Davis in Callaway County, Missouri
Miscellaneous Matter
Callaway County, Missouri of To-Day (1884)
Official Record of Callaway County, Missouri
Callaway County Ecclesiastical History
Biographical by Township
Callaway County Lodges
Callaway County Churches

Included is a total of more than 650 Callaway County, Missouri family biographies including each of the following surnames (NOTE: Some surnames have multiple biographies.) :
(thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies) Adair * Adams * Adcock * Agee * Alexander * Allen * Anderson * Andris * Ansell * Arens * Armstrong * Arnold * Arthur * Atkinson * Austin * Babb * Backer * Bailey * Baker * Barnes * Bartley * Basket * Baskett * Baynham * Beaven * Bell * Bennett * Benson * Berghauser * Berry * Betz * Bird * Bittner * Black * Blackburn * Blount * Blythe * Board * Bolton * Boone * Boswell * Boulware * Boyce * Boyd * Bradley * Branch * Brandon * Brashear * Breadwater * Bright * Brightbill * Brite * Brooks * Brown * Bruner * Bryan * Buchanan * Buckner * Burch * Burgett * Burks * Burnham * Burt * Bush * Caldwell * Callaway * Callerson * Callison * Carrington * Carter * Cason * Cave * Chaney * Charles * Chick * Childs * Chiles * Christian * Clardy * Clatterbuck * Clay * Coats * Collard * Collins * Coonce * Coons * Coulter * Covington * Cowan * Cowles * Craig * Craighead * Craigo * Crane * Crawford * Cress * Creswell * Crews * Criswell * Crook * Crow * Crowson * Crump * Culbertson * Cumberland * Curd * Darby * Davis * Dawson * Day * Dearing * Dedman * Dillard * Dockum * Doerries * Dorriss * Dorsey * Douglass * Dozier * Drake * Driskall * Driskell * Duley * Dulin * Duncan * Dunham * Dunlap * Dunn * Dyer * Ebersole * Edwards * Eley * Eller * Elley * Emmons * English * Erwin * Evans * Everhart * Everheart * Ewens * Ewing * Fant * Ferguson * Ferrier * Findley * Fisher * Fitzgerald * Fogerstrom * Foster * Fox * Foxworthy * Freeman * Fruite * Fry * Galbreth * Galwith * Games * Garrett * Gibbs * Gibson * Gilbert * Gill * Gilman * Gilmore * Gingerich * Glenn * Glover * Goodman * Gosney * Grant * Gray * Gregory * Griffin * Guthrie * Guy * Hall * Halley * Hamilton * Harding * Harkins * Harlan * Harper * Harris * Harrison * Hart * Hassler * Hatcher * Havens * Hawkins * Hays * Heinemann * Henderson * Herndon * Herring * Hersman * Heyten * Hobbs * Hobson * Hockaday * Holland * Holman * Holt * Hook * Hopkins * Hord * Horde * Hornbuckle * Houf * Howard * Howe * Hubbard * Hudson * Hughes * Hume * Humphreys * Hunter * Hutts * Jackson * Jacobs * James * Jameson * Jones * Jordan * Keller * Kelso * Kemp * Kenney * Kennon * Kerr * Key * Kidwell * King * Kitchen * Knight * Knox * Kreutz * Lacaff * Lail * Lamar * Landmann * Langley * Langtry * Langtrye * Larch * Larrimore * Lawrence * Laws * Lawther * Leach * Leeper * Lorenz * Lyle * Lynes * Maddox * Main * Maloney * Manning * Marquess * Martin * May * Maycock * Mayfield * McCall * McClanahan * McClelland * McClure * McCord * McCracken * McCrackin * McCue * McFarlane * McGhee * McIntire * McKamey * McKee * McKinney * McMahan * McPheeters * Miller * Ming * Moore * Moss * Murphy * Murray * Neff * Nesbit * Neukomm * Nevins * Nichols * Nicolson * Nixson * Noel * Nolley * Northcutt * Nusum * Offutt * Overfelt * Overton * Pace * Palmer * Patterson * Patton * Payne * Pearre * Penn * Peters * Pettibone * Pledge * Powell * Pratt * Price * Ramsey * Ratekin * Reily * Reno * Renoe * Reynolds * Rice * Ridgeway * Riley * Robertson * Robinson * Robnett * Rohn * Rood * Rootes * Rothwell * Russell * Rutledge * Sallee * Sampson * Samuel * Sanford * Sapp * Sayers * Scholl * Scott * Selby * Sharp * Shaw * Sheley * Shields * Simco * Simcoe * Sims * Sipple * Sitten * Sloan * Smart * Smith * Sneathen * Snedicor * Snell * Snyder * Spicer * Standefer * Steele * Stokes * Stone * Suggett * Tarleton * Tate * Taylor * Terry * Thomas * Thornton * Thorp * Thrailkill * Threlkeld * Thurmond * Tichenor * Tincher * Tipton * Todd * Trimble * Truitt * Tucker * Tureman * Turley * Turner * Tuttle * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Veirs * Vivion * Wagoner * Walker * Walthall * Washington * Watson * Wells * Wenger * West * Whaley * White * Whittington * Whyte * Wiggs * Wilburn * Wilkerson * Willcoxon * Williams * Williamson * Wilson * Windsor * Winn * Winterbower * Wise * Wood * Woodson * Word * Wren * Wright * Yantis * Yates * Yount *

Callaway County, Missouri is located in the mid central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Audrain County, Missouri * Montgomery County, Missouri * Osage County, Missouri * Cole County, Missouri * and Boone County, Missouri (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

Each of the 3 books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium or equivalent computer with a CD drive. This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

The cost for this CD containing all 3 books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A large amount of history and genealogy information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Callaway County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1884. Includes considerable information concerning the Civil War period.

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