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

Book One on CD: Maps of Vernon County, Missouri
Included here are the Southwestern Ozark region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Vernon County, Missouri before the county was created from Bates County, Missouri. Locations shown: Chouteau's Store * Little Osage *

B. A map of 1902 Vernon County, Missouri showing the locations of 28 different settlements including all of the following: Arthur * Bellamy * Bronaugh * Carbon Center * Deerfield * Ellis * Eve * Fairhaven * Greene Springs * Harwood * Horton * Little Osage * Metz * Milo * Montevallo * Moundville * Nassau * Nevada * Richards * Rinehart * Schell City * Sheldon * Stotesbury * Swart * Virgil City * Wales * Walker * Zodiac *

C. A map of 1904 Vernon County, Missouri showing the locations of 37 different settlements including all of the following: Amos * Arthur * Bellamy * Bristow * Bronaugh * Carbon City * Deerfield * Eve * Fairhaven * Greene Springs * Harwood * Horton * Katy * Ketterman * Metz * Milo * Montevallo * Moundville * Nevada * Panama * Pashaw * Portia * Richards * Rinehart * Rock * Ryther * Sandstone * Sheldon * Shell City * Stotesbury * Swart * Temple * Veve * Virgil City * Walker * Wolfe * Zodiac *

D. A map of 1913 Vernon County, Missouri showing the locations of numerous settlements throughout the county.

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 on CD: Vernon County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are six pages concerning Vernon 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 on CD: The complete 1887 "History of Vernon County, Missouri" by Brown & Co.
This detailed (over 900 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Vernon County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1887. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Vernon County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 430 different Vernon County, Missouri family biographies.
 

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

• History of Vernon County, Missouri

• Spanish and French Explorers in Vernon County, Missouri

• First American Expedition

• History of The Osage Indians in Vernon County

• First Settlement of Vernon County, Missouri to 1840

• First Actual Settlements in Vernon County, Missouri

• Vernon County History From 1840 to 1850

• Vernon County History From 1850 to 1860

• Vernon County During the Troubles in Kansas

• The John Brown Raid

• Southwest Expedition of 1860

• The Civil War in Vernon County, Missouri

• Some Noted Confederate Soldiers of Vernon County, Missouri

• Leading Events in Vernon County 1865 to 1875

• Leading Events in Vernon County 1875 to 1887

• Ft. Carondelet

• The City of Nevada, Missouri

• Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri

• Vernon County Township Histories and Genealogies: Osage Township * Henry Township * Badger Township * Clear Creek Township * Walker Township * Deerfield Township * Blue Mound Township * Coal Township * Center Township * Bacon Township * Richland Township * Harrison Township * Moundville Township * Drywood Township * Dover Township * Montevallo Township * Virgil Township * Metz Township * Lake Township

• Cities, Towns and Villages in Vernon County, Missouri: Arthur * Avola * Bellamy City * Belvoir * Bronaugh * Carbon Center * Clayton * Connely?s Springs * Deerfield * Goodrick * Greene Springs * Harwood * Hoover * Little Osage or Balltown * Marion * Metz * Milo * Montevallo * Moundville * Nevada * Prewitt * Rinehart * Schell City * Shanghai * Sheldon * Virgil City * Walker * Warwick * Zodiac *

• Index to Vernon County, Missouri Family Biographies (430 biographies)

Included is a total of 430 Vernon County, Missouri family biographies including each of the following surnames:
(more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Adcock * Aingell * Allen * Anderson * Armstrong * Arnold * Atkinson * Austin * Babbitt * Bacon * Badger * Bailey * Baker * Barr * Barter * Barton * Bates * Beagles * Beard * Bell * Benedict * Berry * Bigelow * Biggs * Birdseye * Blanton * Blue * Bodley * Boughan * Bradley * Brand * Brockman * Brooks * Brown * Buchanan * Buford * Bullock * Burton * Busbee * Caldwell * Callaway * Campbell * Cann * Capps * Carlile * Caton * Christian * Churchell * Claycomb * Cleland * Clinton * Cogswell * Coleman * Colin * Collier * Compton * Connely * Corbin * Correll * Coulter * Cowan * Cox * Coyl * Crockett * Croft * Croy * Cummings * Cummins * Curtis * Daly * Darlington * Darrow * Davenport * Davis * Deatley * Denton * Devaul * Dickson * Diehr * Dixon * Dodson * Douglas * Duck * Duff * Dulin * Duncan * Duren * Dyer * Eacott * Eads * Earhart * Edmiston * Elledge * Ellis * Emerson * Erdman * Estes * Evans * Faith * Farley * Fergus * Ferry * Finch * Fisher * Foland * Fonburg * Ford * Foster * Fuller * Funderburk * Galvin * Garrison * Garton * Gates * Gilmor * Gordon * Graham * Gray * Green * Grimsley * Hagan * Haire * Hall * Hambaugh * Hardacre * Harding * Hardy * Harris * Hartley * Hartzfeld * Hauser * Hawkins * Herrick * Higbee * Hightower * Hill * Hiller * Hofsess * Hogan * Holmes * Hooser * Hoover * Hoppenbrock * Hoss * Hucht * Huff * Humble * Hunter * Hurd * Hurst * Ingels * Irons * Isbell * January * Jarboe * Jarvis * Jeffries * Jennings * Jent * Jewell * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Jordan * Journey * Kaufman * Kelso * Kennedy * Kibler * Kimball * Kincaid * Kincannon * King * Kirker * Klontz * Knau * Kuhlmann * Kuhn * Lamey * Lancaster * Landes * Latimer * Lawrence * Lefler * Letton * Lewis * Lillard * Linn * Logan * Logsdon * Longacre * Lovell * Lowe * Lunsford * Lyons * Mack * Maltby * Manzer * Maring * Martin * May * Mayes * Mays * McAdams * McCrary * McCullough * McCutchen * McDaniel * McGovney * McGowan * McGrew * McKill * McMath * McNeil * Meadows * Melick * Merrill * Meyer * Miers * Miller * Minckler * Mische * Mitchell * Moberly * Mobley * Modrel * Monroe * Montgomery * Moody * Moore * Morerod * Moss * Murray * Myers * Nanson * Nelson * Nichols * Nixon * Norman * Norton * Orndorff * Overstreet * Parker * Parrish * Patterson * Paxton * Penfield * Perdue * Phelps * Phipps * Pierce * Place * Poage * Popplewell * Preston * Prewitt * Profitt * Purnel * Raines * Ream * Rees * Requa * Rexrode * Rimbey * Rinehart * Ripley * Roark * Robinson * Rockwood * Roodhouse * Roth * Rowan * Rucker * Russell * Samples * Schneider * Scott * Scroghem * Seamans * Shanholtzer * Shanton * Shearer * Shelton * Shepley * Shindler * Shively * Short * Shrum * Sickels * Sigman * Simpson * Smith * Snider * Spayde * Speed * Sprague * Stahler * Staley * Stegman * Sterett * Stone * Strain * Stratton * Strong * Stroud * Stuart * Stukey * Sullard * Sullards * Tahlman * Talbot * Talmadge * Taylor * Teel * Terrill * Tharp * Thomas * Thompson * Thornhill * Thornton * Thorp * Tillotson * Todd * Towner * Townsend * Trim * Turley * Tyler * Ulch * Underwood * Vail * Vandiveer * Vetter * Waddell * Walker * Walton * Ward * Warth * Weaver * Webb * Webster * Welch * Welton * Westphal * Weyand * Wheeler * Wherritt * White * Whitley * Wight * Wilhoit * Willson * Wilson * Witt * Woodfill * Woods * Wormley * Worsley * Wright * Yokley * Young * Zerbe *

Vernon County, Missouri is located in the Southwest portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Bates County, Missouri * St. Clair County, Missouri * Cedar County, Missouri * Barton County, Missouri * and Bourbon County, Kansas .

Each of the three 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  Vernon County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1887. Includes considerable information concerning the Civil War period.

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