A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Pettis County, Missouri only 18 years after Pettis County was created. Locations shown: Arator * Fairview * Georgetown * Longwood *

B. A map of 1902 Pettis County, Missouri showing the locations of 18 different settlements including all of the following: Beaman * Dresden * Georgetown * Greenridge * Houstonia * Hughesville * Ionia * Lamb * Lamonte * Longwood * Lutman * Postal * Rodelia * Sedalia * Smithton * Stokley * Thornleigh * Whites *

C. A map of 1904 Pettis County, Missouri showing the locations of 25 different settlements including all of the following: Bahner * Beaman * Campbranch * Dumpville * Elkfork * Georgetown * Greenridge * Houstonia * Hughesville * Ionia * Lamonte * Longwood * Lookout * Lutman * Manila * Newland * Postal * Rodelia * Rowletta *Sedalia * Smithton * Stokley * Tedieville * Thornleigh * Valda *

D. A map of 1913 Pettis County, Missouri showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Beaman * Bethal * Camp Branch * Dresden * Dumpville * Finch * Georgetown * Houstonia * Hughesville * Ionia City * Kemp * La Monte * Lomo * Longwood * Lookout * Lutman * Newland * Pauline * Postal * Rowletta *  Sedalia * Smithton * Stokley * Tedieville * Thornleigh * White Station * 

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: Pettis County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are six pages concerning Pettis 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 1882 "History of Pettis County, Missouri" This detailed (over 930 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of history and genealogy information about Pettis County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1882. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Pettis County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 700 different Pettis County, Missouri family biographies.
 

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

• Partial Contents:

• Introduction and Origin of Pettis County Name

• Pettis County Early Settlement and Pioneers

• Natural History of Pettis County

• Pettis County Organization

• Political History of Pettis County

• Courts and Bar of Pettis County

• Pettis County Religious History

• Educational History of Pettis County

• The Medical Profession in Pettis County

• Pettis County Agriculture & Agricultural Societies

• Railroad History of Pettis County, Missouri

• The Civil War in Pettis County, Missouri

• Pettis County Newspapers

• History of Sedalia, Missouri

• Capture of Sedalia, Missouri

• Sedalia After The Civil War

• East Sedalia. Missouri

• Sedalia Commercial & Business Enterprises

• Churches of Sedalia

• Educational Institutions of Sedalia

• Social Development of Sedalia

• The Present and The Future of Sedalia, Missouri

• Biographical Sketches of Sedalia, Missouri

• Houstonia Township

• Blackwater Township

• Longwood Township

• Heath’s Creek Township

• Lamonte Township

• Dresden Township

• Cedar Township

• Bowling Green Township

• Elk Fork Township

• Prairie Township

• Smithton Township

• Green Ridge Township

• Washington Township

• Flat Creek Township

• Lake Creek Township

• Pettis County, Missouri Cities, Towns, Villages, and Post Offices: Beaman * Dresden * Georgetown * Green Ridge * Houstonia * Ionia * Lamonte * Longwood * Rowletta * Sedalia * Sigel *Smithton

• Pettis County Biographical Sketches

Included is a total of more than 700 biographies from Pettis County, Missouri including each of the following surnames:
(more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Abell * Adams * Addor * Agee * Allen * Allin * Allison * Anderson * Anspaugh * Antes * Archer * Armstrong * Arnold * Bagby * Baker * Barber * Bard * Barnett * Barrett * Beck * Beeman * Beiler * Bell * Bellas * Bennett * Berry * Bettridge * Bidstrap * Bixby * Blair * Blandin * Blocher * Boatright * Bobbitt * Boeker * Boerstler * Bohling * Bohon * Booth * Bosserman * Bouldin * Boyer * Bradford * Bridges * Bright * Brockschmidt * Bronson * Brown * Brunckhorst *Buchanan * Bullen * Burkhart * Busch * Byler * Caldwell * Canady * Capen * Card * Carlin * Carpenter * Carr * Carter * Cartwright * Castle * Cecil * Chaney * Chilton * Chipman * Christian * Clark * Clarke * Cloney * Clopton * Clute * Cogley * Cole * Conner * Connor * Conway * Cook * Cooper * Courtney * Cousley * Craghead * Crawford * Craycroft * Crowley * Crume * Cully * Culp * Cumming * Cunningham * Curran * Dalby * Daniel * Davenport * Davidson * Davis * Dean * Demuth * Denny * Depp * Devoll * DeWitt * Dexter * Dickerson * Dillon * Divers * Dix * Doherty * Done * Dorrance * Downs * Dugan * Duke * Duly * Dump * Dunlap * Durham * Durrell * Dyer * Ede * Edwards * Elliott * Ellison * Elmore * Embree * Emerson * Evans * Farner * Farnham * Farris * Faulhaber * Felix * Fellows * Ferguson * Fernald * Ferrell * Ferris * Fesler * Field * Files * Fisher * Fleming * Flesher * Fletcher * Forbes * Fowler * Fraker * Fredrick * Fuller * Galbreath * Gallie * Gallup * Garton * Gauss * Gebhard * Gehlken * Gentry * Gibson * Goetze * Gold * Golden * Goodrich * Goodwin * Gorrell * Gossage * Gould * Gover * Gray * Green * Greer * Gregg * Gregory * Guier * Guihen * Gwinn * Haggard * Hain * Haines * Hainline * Haire * Hale * Hall * Ham * Hamm * Hammond * Hancock * Hand * Hardy * Harned * Harris * Harte * Harter * Harvey * Hatton * Haveley * Hawkins * Hawks * Hay * Heard * Heaton * Heck * Hedger * Heins * Hemphill * Henderson * Heynen * Hickey * Hicks * Hieronymus * Higgins * Highleyman * Hildebrand * Hill * Hinsdale * Hoffman * Hogue * Holcomb * Hollenbeck * Houston * Houx * Howe * Hughes * Hull * Huston * Hutchinson * Hutchison * Ilgenfritz * Ingram * Inman * Ireland * Ittel * Jackson * James * Janney * Jaynes * Jefferson * Jenkins * Johns * Jones * Kahrs * Kaiser * Keller * Kelly * Kemp * Kendrick * Kennedy * Kidwell * King * Knapp * Koock * Kruse * Kumm * Lacy * Lamm * Lampton * Lamy * Landes * Laney * Latour * Lauber * Lauging * Leabo * Leake * Leboa * Lee * Lewis * Llewellyn * Logan * Longan * Looney * Lovelace * Lower * Lowry * Lucke * Lupe * Mackey * Magley * Mahnken * Major * Marean * Marsh * Marshall * Mason * Masonhall * Matthews * Mayfield * McAninch * McCampbell * McClellan * McCluney * McClure * McColloch * McConnell * McCormick * McCoy * McCurdy * McFadden * McGee * McGruder * McKabe * McKinley * McLaughlin * McNees * McQuitty * McVey * Means * Melvin * Memminger * Mentzer * Mercer * Merrifield * Mertz * Messerly * Meyer * Meyers * Miller * Mitchell * Mitchum * Moffett * Momberg * Monsee * Montgomery * Moore * Morris * Moses * Moss * Mueller * Neeson *Nelson * Newkirk * Nicholas * Nichols * Norris * Norton * Norton * Offield * Olmsted * Overstreet * Pace * Page * Palmer * Park * Parrish * Payn * Pemberton * Pettis * Philips * Phipps * Piety * Pohl * Pollard * Porter * Potter * Powell * Price * Priest * Prigmore * Purcell * Ramey * Ramsey * Rantenstrauch * Rayburn * Raynor * Ready * Ream * Rector * Reed * Rembaugh * Renfrow * Rhoades * Rhoads * Rhodes * Richardson * Rickman * Ricks * Ridenour * Riecke * Riffe * Riley * Ringen * Rissler * Ritter * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Rodgers * Ross * Rothwell * Rowlett * Rutan * Sampson * Sanford * Schmitt * Schupp * Schwensen * Scott * Scow * Sebring * Selken * Sellers * Senior * Settles * Shanks * Sharp * Shaw * Shepard * Shepherd * Shirk * Shobe * Short * Shy * Sicher * Sickler * Simonds * Simons * Sinclair * Sinnett * Sloane * Sloemer * Small * Smith * Sneed * Snoddy * Sollis * Spears * Spedden * Spickert * Sprague * Spurgin * Stanton * Staples * Stark * Steelman * Stirlen * Stockman * Story * Stringer * Swope * Tannahill * Taylor * Terry * Tesch * Thatcher * Thiele * Thomas * Thompson * Thomson * Thornton * Tomlin * Townsley * Trachel * Trader * Triplett * Trumbull * Truxel * Tucker * Turley * Tyler * Upton * Van Brunt * Van Burkleo * Van Wagner * Vannatta * Vaughan * Vinson * Vitt * Waddle * Wade * Wadleigh * Walker * Walkup * Walmsley * Walshe * Warren * Watkins * Weathers * Webber * Weikal * Welsh * Westfield * Westlake * Wharton * Wheeler * White * Whitfield * Widney * Wilcox * Wilkerson * Williams * Wilson * Wimer * Winston * Wise * Witcher * Wood * Woods * Woolery * Wright * Yankee * Yeater * Zener *

Pettis County, Missouri is located in the West Central portion of Missouri and is bordered by the following counties: Saline County, Missouri * Cooper County, Missouri * Morgan County, Missouri * Benton County, Missouri * and Johnson 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 Pettis County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1882.

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