Greene County, Missouri History and Genealogy

More than 850 pages of Greene County, Missouri history and genealogy including 525 family biographies plus 52 Greene County communities on 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Greene County, Missouri including three separate books on one CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929) showing the locations of 52 Greene County, Missouri settlements; plus the full 1883 "History of Greene County, Missouri" book by the Western Historical Company including 525 Greene County family biographies. An important resource for the study and research of Greene County, Missouri history and genealogy, including a detailed history of the Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek.

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

Book One of three, all on one CD: Maps of Greene County, Missouri
Included here are the Ozark region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Greene County, Missouri only 18 years after Greene County was formed. Locations shown: Ozark * Pleasant Prairie * Richland * Springfield * Walnut Forest * White Oak Grove *

B. A map of 1902 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 24 different settlements including all of the following: Bois d' Arc * Brookline Station * Buckley * Cave Spring * Dorchester * Ebenezer * Elwood ( Campbells Station ) * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Gates * Harold * Heady * Hickory Barren * Lyman * Mascott * Mumford * Needmore * Nichols * Palace * Phenix * Republic * Springfield * Strafford * Walnutgrove ( Walnut Grove ) * Willard *

C. A map of 1904 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 44 different settlements including all of the following: Abbott * Alsup * Bassville * Bois D'Arc * Brookline Station * Buckley * Cavespring ( Cave Spring ) * Clair * Cody * Dorchester * Ebenezer * Elwood * Expansion * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Galloway * Gates * Gledewell * Hackney * Harold * Haven * Heady * Hickory Barren * Lori * Mascot * Mentor * Mumford * Needmore * Nichols * Nogo * Palace * Palmetto * Pearl * Phoenix * Plano * Republic * Riverpark * Roseville * Sacville * Springfield * Strafford * Turners * Walnutgrove ( Walnut Grove ) * Willard * Yeakley * *

D. A map of 1913 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 32 different settlements including all of the following: Alsup * Ash Grove * Bethesda * Bois D'Arc * Brookline * Cave Spring * Clair * Cody * Ebeneezer * Expansion * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Galloway * Gates * Hackney * Harold * Haven * Hickory * Mentor * Mumford * Nichols * Palace * Palmetto * Pearl * Phoenix * Plano * River Park * Sackville * Springfield * Strafford * Turner * Walnut Grove * Willard *

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: Greene County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are six pages concerning Greene 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 1883 "History of Greene County, Missouri" by the Western Historical Company.
This detailed (869 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Greene County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Greene County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 525 different Greene County, Missouri family biographies.
 

Partial index to contents (this is only a small portion of the topics covered in this book):

• Pioneer History in Greene County, Missouri

• Early Settlers of Greene County, Missouri

• From Organization of Greene County to 1840

• Organization of First Greene County Townships

• First Circuit Court in Greene County, Missouri

• The Star Shower of 1833

• Hard Winter of 1835

• The Osage War

• The Sarcoxie War

• Greene County, Missouri History 1840 to 1850

• Greene County, Missouri in the Mexican War

• The Big Sleet of 1848

• Greene County, Missouri History 1850 to 1856

• The California Gold Fever strikes Greene County, Missouri

• Railroad Matters in Greene County, Missouri

• Hanging of Willis Washam

• Greene County, Missouri History 1856 to 1860

• Bleeding Kansas and Greene County, Missouri

• Crop Failure of 1857

• Slave Sales in Greene County

• Building the New Greene County Court House

• Hanging of Mart. Danforth

• Greene County, Missouri History 1860 to 1861

• The Civil War Begins in Greene County, Missouri

• The Battle of Wilson's Creek (lengthy, very detailed)

• The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's Creek

• Other Civil War Events in 1861

• Civil War Events in Greene County, Missouri of 1862

• Runaway Slaves

• Civil War Events in Greene County, Missouri of 1863

• The Battle of Springfield, Missouri

• Civil War Events 1864 to 1865 in Greene County, Missouri

• Guerilla Raids Through Greene County, Missouri

• Military Executions in Greene County, Missouri During War

• Greene County, Missouri History 1865 to 1870

• The Reign of the Regulators Greene County, Missouri

• Greene County, Missouri History 1870 to 1875

• Kansas City & Memphis Railroad in Greene County

• Pacific Railroad in Greene County

• Lynching at Walnut Grove, Missouri

• Greene County, Missouri History 1875 to 1883

• The Cyclone of 1880

• Biographies of Prominent Greene County, Missouri Citizens

• Walnut Grove Township

• Boone Township

• Center Township

• Pond Creek Towmship

• Brookline Township

• Wilson Township

• Clay Township

• Washington Township

• Taylor Township

• Cass Township

• The City of Springfield, Missouri

• The Killing of Dave Tutt by Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield, Missouri

• Drury College in Springfield, Missouri

• North Springfield, Missouri

• Campbell Township

• Franklin Township

• Jackson Township

• Robberson Township

• Greene County Cities, Towns, and Villages: Ash Grove * Bois D?Arc * Brookline * Cave Spring * Fair Grove * North Springfield * Republic * Springfield * Strafford

• Greene County, Missouri Family Biographies (525 biographies)

Included is a total of 525 Greene County biographies including each of the following surnames:
(more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Abbott * Acuff * Alexander * Anderson * Appleby * Arrington * Austin * Bacon * Bailey * Bair * Baker * Balay * Baldwin * Barclay * Barnes * Barrett * Baxter * Beal * Bearden * Beckerleg * Beer * Bennett * Benson * Berry * Betson * Biggs * Bishop * Blackman * Blackwell * Blades * Blanchard * Bobbitt * Bodenhamer * Boone * Bossert * Bowerman * Boyd * Brewer * Britain * Brockman * Brown * Buck * Buttram * Camp * Campbell * Carson * Carter * Cass * Clark * Claypool * Clayton * Cliborne * Cloud * Coffey * Coltrane * Conlon * Cooper * Coover * Cordray * Cox * Crane * Cravens * Crawford * Criswell * Crutcher * Culbertson * Dabbs * Dalrymple * Danforth * Davis * Dawley * Day * Delaney * Dillard * Dingeldein * Dishman * Dobbs * Dodson * Donnell * Dryden * Duncan * Eckstorm * Edmundson * Edwards * Egan * Elson * Elwood * Emery * Epley * Epperson * Escott * Evans * Eversol * Fain * Fairbanks * Fay * Fellows * Ferguson * Fielder * Fine * Fletcher * Forshee * Foster * Frame * Frazier * Freeman * Fryar * Gardner * Garoutte * Garton * Garwood * Gates * Geiger * Geister * Gibson * Gideon * Gilmore * Glover * Gott * Gottfried * Grantham * Gray * Grist * Gubler * Gurley * Hackney * Haden * Hall * Hamblen * Harralson * Haseltine * Hasler * Hasten * Haswell * Hawkins * Haydon * Heacker * Headlee * Headley * Heckart * Heer * Heffernan * Hendrix * Herman * Higgins * Hill * Hobart * Holland * Holman * Hornbeak * Horning * Hosey * Hosman * Hovey * Howell * Hoyal * Hubbard * Hubble * Hudgings * Hulse * Huntington * Huston * Hyde * Ingram * Jackson * James * Jenkin * Jessup * Johns * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Julian * Kanada * Kanning * Kaufholtz * Kearney * Keener * Keet * Kelly * Kennedy * Kerr * Kersey * Killingsworth * Kime * King * Kinney * Kirby * Kirkham * Kroff * Lacy * Laker * Lamb * Lambeth * Langston * Larew * Leslie * Likins * Lisenby * Lohmeyer * Long * Longcrier * Love * Lowdermilk * Lydon * Lyman * Mack * Macloskey * Mannel * Mansfield * Marsh * Martin * Marx * Mason * Massey * McAdams * McAdoo * McCabe * McCammon * McCarty * McCauley * McCleary * McCluer * McCollah * McCracken * McCraw * McCrory * McDaniel * McElhanon * McElhany * McGown * McKenna * McKerall * McKibben * McLean * McLemore * McMaster * McMehen * McPherson * Means * Melcher * Merritt * Miller * Milner * Moist * Monaghan * Moore * Morhiser * Morice * Morrow * Morton * Mount * Murphy * Murray * Neaves * Neiswanger * Nelson * Newbill * Newton * Nichols * Noe * Noleman * Norfleet * Norris * Nutt * O'Day * Odell * O'Neal * Onstott * Owen * Paine * Painter * Palmer * Park * Parker * Parrish * Patterson * Paxson * Peacher * Perkins * Perryman * Pettitt * Phelps * Pierce * Piper * Plank * Pollack * Porter * Price * Prigmore * Prophet * Prunty * Putnam * Quicksell * Quisenberry * Rand * Rathbone * Rawdon * Rea * Redfearn * Reynolds * Rice * Riggs * Ritter * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Rogers * Rothschild * Rountree * Ruby * Rule * Russell * Sander * Savage * Schmook * Schuller * Schultz * Shephard * Sheppard * Sherwood * Shipman * Shockley * Short * Sibley * Simmons * Sims * Sittler * Skelton * Smith * Snow * Snyder * Sommers * Speaker * Spencer * Sprague * Sprinkle * Squibb * Staley * Steele * Stevenson * Stewart * Stones * Stoughton * Stringer * Sutter * Swinney * Tatum * Tevis * Thies * Thomas * Thompson * Thoms * Tisdell * Townsend * Tracy * Travers * Tribble * Turner * Tuttle * Utter * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Vaughn * Vinton * Waddell * Wade * Wadlow * Walker * Ward * Warner * Watson * Watterson * Watts * Weaver * Weir * Wentworth * West * White * Wiley * Wilhoit * Williams * Wilson * Wood * Woodward * Worrell * Wright * Zink *

Greene County, Missouri is located in the Southwest portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Polk County, Missouri * Dallas County, Missouri * Webster County, Missouri * Christian County, Missouri * Lawrence County, Missouri * and Dade 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 Greene County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1883. Includes considerable information concerning the Civil War period in and around Greene County, Missouri.

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