Lafayette County, Missouri History and Genealogy

Over 1900 pages of Lafayette County, Missouri history and genealogy including more than 1300 biographies plus 8 different maps of the Lafayette County, Missouri area.  Includes the cities of Lexington, Higginsville, Concordia, Odessa, Waverly, Bates City, Corder, Dover, Mayview, plus more than 20 other towns.  Also includes a large amount of Civil History including The Battle of Lexington, Missouri or the Battle of Hemp Bales.

An informative and historical overview of Lafayette County, Missouri including five separate books, ALL on one CD which include 8 historical maps (1851, 1862, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929); plus the full 1881 Missouri Historical Company History of Lafayette County, Missouri book including 502 biographies, plus the full 1893 Chapman Bros., Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette County and Saline County, Missouri including 488 biographies plus the full two volume 1910 Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri including 323 biographies.   A very important resource for the study and research of Lafayette County, Missouri genealogy and history (including the Civil War - Battle of Lexington, Missouri - Battle of Hemp Bales)

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

Book One of five, all on one CD: Maps of Lafayette County, Missouri
Included here are the Western Central region of Missouri sections of 8 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Lafayette County, Missouri just thirty one years after Lafayette County was formed. This map shows the location of the following settlements: Cool Spring * Dover * Greenton * Lexington * Mt. Hope * Wellington

B. A map of 1862 (during the Civil War) Lafayette County, Missouri showing the locations of  7 different settlements including all of the following: Cooks Store * Cool Spring * Greenton * Lexington * Moss * Napoleon * Wellington

C. A map of 1899 Lafayette County, Missouri showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Broadland * Chapel Hill * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Emma * Greenton * Halls * Hodge (Edwards Station) * Lexington * Mayview * Myrick * Napoleon * Odessa * Page City * Waterloo * Wellington

D. A map of 1902 Lafayette County, Missouri showing the locations of 16 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Chapelhill (Chapel Hill) * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Greenton * Higginsville * Hodge * Lexington * Mayview * Napoleon * Odessa * Waverly * Wellington

E. A map of 1904 Lafayette County, Missouri showing the locations of 21 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Borland * Chapelhill (Chapel Hill) * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Emma * Higginsville * Hodge * Lexington * Mayview * Napoleon * Odessa * Page City * Simpson * Tabo * Waterloo * Waverly * Wellington

F. A map of 1913 Lafayette County, Missouri showing the locations of 22 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Berlin * Chapel Hill * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Emma * Greenton * Halls Sta. * Higginsville * Hodge * Lexington * Mayview * Napoleon * Northrup * Odessa * Page City * Waterloo * Waverly * Wellington *

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

H. 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 five, all on one CD: Lafayette County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Lafayette 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 five, all on one CD: The complete 1881 "History of Lafayette County, Missouri" by the Missouri Historical Company.
This detailed (520 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Lafayette County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1881. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Lafayette County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 502 different biographies.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

• Geology, Topography of Lafayette County, Missouri

• Pioneer Events of Lafayette County, Missouri

• Evolution of Lafayette County, Missouri

• First Court in Lafayette County, Missouri

• First Roads, Ferries, Licenses, etc

• Prehistoric Man in Lafayette County, Missouri

• Mound-Builder Relics

• Physical Features of Lafayette County, Missouri

• Notable Weather Items

• Geology of Lafayette County, Missouri

• Rocks, Coal, Fossils, Etc

• Native Animals of Lafayette County, Missouri

• Mastodons in Lafayette County, Missouri

• School History of Lafayette County, Missouri

• The Old Masonic College in Lexington, Missouri

• Central Female College in Lexington, Missouri

• Elizabeth Aull Female Seminary in Lexington, Missouri

• The Baptist Female College in Lexington, Missouri

• The Wentworth Male Academy (later Wentworth Military Academy ) in Lexington, Missouri

• Lafayette County Organizations

• Old Men's Association of Lafayette County, Missouri

• The Grasshopper Devastation

• Elections and Other County Matters

• Lafayette County Officers

• Lafayette County Finances

• General Statistics

• Railroad History of Lafayette County, Missouri

• The Civil War History of Lafayette County, Missouri

• The Civil War Battle of Lexington, Missouri (also known as the Battle of Hemp Bales)

• Civil War Confederate Batteries & Troops (lengthy, detailed list)

• Civil War Federal Soldiers' Record (lengthy, detailed list)

• Towns, Cities, and Settlements: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Berlin * Chapel Hill * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Freedom * Greenton * Higginsville * Johnson's Grove * Lexington * Long Grove * Mayview * Middleton * Napoleon * Odessa * Page City *  Waverly * Wellington 

• Biographical Appendix

Included is a total of 502 Lafayette County, Missouri family biographies including each of the following surnames: (more than 800 additional biographies are included in the two additional books described below on this page) (more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Abney * Adams * Althoff * Alumbaugh * Anderson * Anson * Ardinger * Asbury * Avitt * Ayers * Baggarly * Bailey * Bams * Bardsley * Barly * Barron * Barton * Bascom * Bates * Bayless * Beale * Beall * Beamer * Bear * Beardslee * Belt * Bennett * Benning * Benton * Berry * Biggerstaff * Biltz * Bird * Blackwell * Bledsoe * Bolton * Booton * Bowen * Brady * Braecklien * Branch * Brand * Bray * Brockmann * Brown * Bruns * Buchanan * Buck * Buford * Bumgarner * Burbridge * Burden * Burns * Burton * Butler * Buttner * Caldwell * Calloway * Campbell * Canterbury * Carter * Carthrae * Cash * Cather * Catron * Chambers * Cheatham * Chiles * Chinn * Christy * Clagett * Clemens * Cobb * Collins * Conn * Cook * Cooke * Cooksey * Corbin * Corbitt * Corder * Cox * Creasey * Cunningham * Curran * Dankenbring * Davis * Dean * Deuchler * Dickson * Dierking * Donaldson * Douglass * Downing * Dryden * Duling * Dyer * Eastwood * Edwards * Eggleston * Elsea * Emison * Erdmann * Ewing * Farrell * Feagans * Ferguson * Fishback * Fitzgerald * Fletcher * Flournoy * Ford * Foster * Fox * Francisco * Fulkerson * Fulton * Gaertner * Galbraith * Gammon * Gann * Garr * Garvin * Gates * Gibbs * Gillespie * Gladden * Gladdish * Goehner * Goodwin * Gordon * Gosewisch * Graham * Graves * Gray * Green * Groves * Grubb * Gruber * Hall * Hammer * Handly * Hannah * Hargrave * Harris * Harrison * Hatfield * Havenner * Hawks * Hayden * Hayes * Hendricks * Henry * Herr * Hicklin * Hickman * Higgins * Hillans * Hoffman * Hogan * Holtcamp * Hook * Hopkins * Hord * Hudnall * Hughes * Jackson * Jacobs * James * Jeffries * Jennings * Jesse * Johnson * Jones * Joy * Keith * Kelly * Kemmerly * Kenton * King * Kinkead * Kirkpatrick * Kirtley * Kite * Kleinschmidt * Klingenberg * Kneedler * Knipmeyer * Koppenbrink * Kraus * Kresse * Kroencke * Kuester * Landrum * Larkin * Lauderdale * Laughlin * Lesueur * Lightner * Littlejohn * Lockhart * Long * Loomis * Luce * Luttrell * Lyons * Major * Marquis * Marshall * Mason * McAbel * McBurney * McCausland * McChesney * McClure * McCord * McFarland * McKinney * Meinecke * Meng * Metcalf * Meyer * Middleton * Miers * Milan * Miller * Mills * Ming * Mitchell * Morgan * Morrison * Mullenix * Murphy * Neal * Neale * Neet * Neithercut * Neville * Nichols * Nicholson * Ninas * Norfleet * Null * Oetling * Oler * Osberne * Osborn * Page * Parker * Pasley * Patterson * Paxton * Payne * Perdue * Perdue * Perrie * Peters * Phleger * Pirner * Porter * Powell * Powers * Prather * Preston * Price * Prigmore * Prince * Proctor * Puckett * Quandt * Ramsey * Rathbun * Rawlings * Ray * Ream * Redd * Reed * Renick * Rex * Ridge * Ridgway * Ridings * Roberts * Robinett * Robinson * Rollins * Rowe * Ruffner * Russell * Ryland * Sanders * Satterfield * Saunders * Schoemaker * Schweitzer * Scott * Shackelfird * Shackelford * Shamel * Sharp * Shawhan * Shelby * Shores * Sittington * Slaughter * Slusher * Small * Smith * Smitherman * Snider * Starke * Steele * Stevens * Stone * Stout * Strosberg * Strothman * Stunkle * Summers * Sumner * Tabb * Taggart * Tate * Taylor * Tebbs * Terhune * Tevis * Thieman * Thomas * Thornton * Thorp * Thorpe * Tiefel * Todhunter * Townsend * Tracy * Tucker * Tunstall * Turner * Twogood * Uphause * Vanangler * Vanarsdall * Vivion * Waddell * Waestemeyer * Wagoner * Wahrenbrock * Walkenhorst * Walker * Wallace * Walraven * Walter * Ward * Warren * Waters * Watson * Webb * Weedin * Wehrs * Welborn * Wentworth * Wernway * White * Whiting * Whitsett * Whitworth * Wikler * Wiley * Wilkinson * Wille * Willis * Wilson * Winsor * Withee * Withers * Wood * Woods * Worthington * Young * Younger * Youngs * Zink (more than 800 additional biographies are included in the two additional books described below on this page)

Book Four of five, all on one CD: The complete 1893 "Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette and Saline Counties, Missouri" by the Chapman Bros., Chicago.
This large book of 550 pages book is exclusively devoted to biographies of individuals from Lafayette County, Missouri or the adjoining Saline County, MO. from its earliest settlement up to 1893. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to both Lafayette County and Saline County, Missouri.
Included is a total of 488 biographies including each of the following surnames: (more than 800 additional biographies are included in the two additional books described above and below on this page) (more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies):
Achamire * Adams * Albin * Aldrich * Alexander * Allen * Allis * Allison * Althouse * Anderson * Andrews * Asbury * Ashley * Audsley * Aull * Avitt * Ayres * Barker * Barks * Barley * Barnett * Bartman * Bascom * Beale * Beeler * Beermann * Bell * Belles * Belt * Bennett * Benning * Benton * Berrie * Bigelow * Bixler * Blackman * Blackwell * Blanchard * Blosser * Board * Bollman * Booth * Bowman * Boyer * Bradford * Brandau * Brenizer * Brown * Browning * Bruce * Buck * Buehler * Buford * Burbridge * Burgan * Bush * Butt * Cameron * Campbell * Carmean * Carter * Catron * Chamberlain * Chamberlin * Chambers * Chamblin * Chanslor * Chappell * Chiles * Chinn * Cobb * Coe * Connell * Conrad * Cooper * Corse * Coulter * Cox * Daniel * Davis * Deal * DePew * Dickerson * Dickey * Dinwiddie * Donaldson * Douthitt * Downs * Draper * Drummond * Duggins * Duncan * Duvall * Dyer * Edwards * Elgin * Elling * Elliott * Emison * Endly * Eubank * Everhart * Evert * Ewing * Farrar * Ferril * Ficken * Fitzgerel * Fletcher * Floyd * Fogus * Ford * Fowler * Fox * Freitag * Fry * Frye * Fulton * Gamble * Gammon * Gardner * Garrett * Gauldin * Gaw * Gibbs * Gilham * Gilmer * Gladish * Golladay * Goodwin * Gordan * Graves * Gray * Greene * Gregsby * Griffitts * Gross * Groves * Grumke * Guerin * Guthrey * Guthrie * Hader * Haerle * Hagood * Hall * Hamisfar * Hammer * Hammond * Hanley * Harl * Harris * Harrison * Harvey * Harwood * Hasenjager * Hatch * Haynie * Hays * Heiler * Hemme * Hicklin * Higgins * Hill * Hitchings * Hoefer * Hoffmann * Hogan * Holke * Holliday * Holman * Holtcamp * Hook * Hopkins * Houston * Hughes * Hupp * Hutchason * Hutcherson * Hyde * Hyland * Ish * James * Jennings * Johnston * Jones * Kapp * Keene * Keill * Keith * Kensler * Kleinschmidt * Knoble * Kranz * Kroencke * LaBertew * Land * Landrum * Lane * Lankford * Laughlin * Lemmon * Lewis * Lilly * Long * Loper * Luttrell * Lyne * Lyon * Lyons * Mallory * Martin * Mason * Masterson * McClelland * McDaniel * McDaniels * McElroy * McGinnis * McMahan * McMeekin * McNeel * McReynolds * Mead * Meier * Meinershagen * Metcalf * Meyer * Miller * Milnor * Mitchell * Moore * Morrison * Neet * Nicolds * Niederjohn * Niemeier * Nordyke * Norfleet * Norris * Norvell * Nye * O'Connell * O'Dwyer * Olson * O'Neill * Orear * Osborn * Oser * Page * Parsons * Payne * Peachee * Peacock * Pearson * Peavler * Peed * Pennock * Perrie * Pfleger * Phetzing * Pilkington * Piper * Pollard * Powell * Price * Quackenbush * Quisenberry * Ragland * Rawlings * Rechtermann * Rector * Reed * Renick * Reynolds * Richart * Ridge * Rilea * Ritter * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Ross * Russell * Ruxton * Ryan * Ryland * Sandidge * Sanford * Satterfield * Sawyer * Schieszer * Schnieder * Schowengerdt * Schwartz * Scott * Seims * Seward * Shaw * Shelby * Shumate * Slusher * Smarr * Smith * Snider * Snoddy * Sponsler * Stagner * Staley * Stanfield * Starke * Starkebaum * Starkey * Starr * Stealy * Stouffer * Strasburg * Sullivan * Swan * Swinney * Swisher * Sydenstricker * Taubman * Taylor * Tempel * Terrell * Thieman * Thomas * Thomson * Thorp * Tickemyre * Tompkins * True * Tucker * Tyler * Uphouse * Utz * Van Anglen * Vance * Vanmeter * Vanstone * Vivion * Waddell * Walker * Wall * Wallace * Walton * Warden * Wayman * Webb * Weedin * Welborn * Whitaker * Whitsitt * Wilhite * Williamson * Williard * Willingham * Willis * Wilson * Withers * Wood * Wooldridge * Wright * Yancey * Young * Zimmerman * (more than 800 additional biographies are included in the two additional books described above and below on this page)

Book Five of five, all on one CD: The complete two volume 1910 "Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri" by B.F. Bowen & Company

This rare two volume set includes a total of 859 pages and has an incredible amount additional of historical and genealogical information about Lafayette County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1910. This is an exact photo replica of the original two volume Lafayette County, Missouri History including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 323 different biographies.

Partial contents:

• Geology, Topography of Lafayette County, Missouri

• History of Lafayette County

• The Mound Builders in Lafayette County

• Lafayette County Coal Mines

• Lafayette County Organized

• Villages Platted in Lafayette County

• Early Settlement of Lafayette County

• Pioneer Customs in Lafayette County

• First Important Events in Lafayette County

• The Germans of Lafayette County

• Lafayette County Government and Buildings

• Lafayette County Officials

• The Civil War in Lafayette County, Missouri

• The Battle of Lexington, Missouri (also known as the Battle of Hemp Bales)

• Recapture of Lexington, Missouri

• The Battle of Wellington, Missouri

• Lafayette County Confederate Soldiers in the Civil War

• Lafayette County Union Soldiers in the Civil War

• Lafayette County Men in Misc. Regiments in the Civil War

• Bushwhackers or Guerrillas in Lafayette County in the Civil War

• The Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Higginsville, Missouri

• Lafayette County Church History

• Lafayette County Schools and Colleges: Chapel Hill College * Wentworth Military Academy * Lexington Masonic College * Lexington College For Young Women * Central College For Women * St. Paul’s College * Western Bible And Literary College * Elizabeth Aull Female Seminary

• Lodges and Societies in Lafayette County

• Agriculture and Horticulture

• Lafayette County Railroads, Transportation, Steamboats

• The Bench and Bar

• The Medical Profession

• Lafayette County Newspapers

• Banks and Banking

• Explosion of the Steamboat Saluda at Lexington, Missouri

• Lafayette County Population by Towns and Townships

• Lafayette County Cities, Towns and Villages: Alma * Aullville * Bates City * Concordia * Corder * Dover * Greenton * Higginsville * Lexington * Mayview * Napoleon * Odessa * Waterloo * Waverly * Wellington

• Lafayette County Townships: Clay Township * Davis Township * Dover Township * Freedom Township * Lexington Township * Middleton Township * Sniabar Township * Washington Township

Included is a total of 323 Lafayette County, Missouri family biographies including each of the following surnames: (more than 800 additional biographies are included in the two additional books described above on this page) (more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Adair * Adams * Alger * Allen * Ardinger * Armentrout * Asbury * Ashurst * Aull * Ayres * Baepler * Bargfrede * Barker * Barnett * Bascom * Beale * Beamer * Bear * Becker * Bell * Belt * Benton * Berry * Bertsch * Bishop * Blackwell * Board * Bonkoski * Brackmann * Bradley * Branch * Bray * Bredehoeft * Brinkman * Brockhoff * Brooks * Broughton * Bruns * Buck * Buehler * Butt * Calfee * Campbell * Carthrae * Chalkey * Chamblin * Chiles * Chinn * Christy * Cobb * Coen * Coffin * Colvin * Corder * Corse * Creasey * Crews * DeLay * Deterding * Dieckhoff * Dierker * Donaldson * Douthitt * Drosselmeyer * Drummond * Duval * Eckle * Elliott * Emison * Eppes * Ewing * Fehner * Ferguson * Ficken * Field * Fieth * Filler * Fischer * Fitch * Ford * Franz * Frazer * Fredendall * Frerking * Freymiller * Frick * Frye * Fuchs * Fulkerson * Galbraith * Garr * Gavin * Geraughty * Gibson * Gladish * Goetz * Goodwin * Gordon * Greife * Grosshart * Groves * Hader * Haerle * Hagood * Hall * Ham * Hancock * Hannah * Hartman * Hartwig * Harwood * Hefter * Henning * Hereford * Herold * Hickman * Hinck * Hix * Hoefer * Hohenwald * Holscher * Hook * Horstmann * Horton * Houx * Jackson * Jennings * Johnson * Kaeppel * Kampf * Karsten * Keith * Kellermann * Kessler * Kincheloe * Kirkpatrick * Kleinschmidt * Klingenberg * Knipmeyer * Lake * Lankford * Larkin * Lewis * Liese * Lieser * Lobeck * Lohoefener * Lynch * Lyons * Mann * Marquis * McFadden * Meinershagen * Meyer * Miller * Morris * Mulhearn * Musgrove * Neer * Nolte * Nordsieck * Null * Offel * Osborn * Pardieck * Payne * Peacock * Peterson * Phelps * Phetzing * Plattenburg * Powell * Price * Puckett * Rabius * Rankin * Redd * Rethmeyer * Rieger * Ritter * Robison * Rodekohr * Roehrs * Rogge * Royle * Russell * Ryland * Sander * Sanders * Sandring * Santmyer * Schmidt * Schneider * Schoede * Schooling * Schreiman * Scott * Sellers * Semmler * Seuser * Sevin * Shelby * Sherwood * Siler * Slusher * Smarr * Smith * Speas * Staley * Starke * Steele * Strodtman * Tempel * Terhune * Thee * Thomas * Tracy * Trail * Uphaus * Van Meter * Vance * Vandiver * Vaughan * Vickars * Vogt * Waddell * Wagoner * Wahrenbrock * Wakeman * Walkenhorst * Walker * Wallace * Walton * Watkins * Weaver * Weedin * Wentworth * Wessel * White * Whitsett * Williams * Williamson * Wilson * Winkler * Winn * Wright * Yancey * Yates * Young *

Lafayette County, Missouri is located in the West Central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Ray County, Missouri * Carroll County, Missouri * Saline County, Missouri * Johnson County, Missouri * and Jackson County, Missouri (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

Each of the five 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 five 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 Lafayette County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1910. Also includes considerable information concerning the Civil War period.

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