Douglas County GenWeb

		Book -- 1995 History
MO Gen Web, Kristi Towe and Sharon Sanders, Co-coordinators
	"Douglas County Missouri -- History & Families -- 1857 -- 1995" Copyright 1996 by Douglas County Historical Society -- All Rights Reserved Printed by Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky This book is out-of-print Contact Pat Carmichael for Look-Ups or Research in This Book -- Also the Douglas County Historical & Genealogical Society will photocopy family history pages at 25 cents per page. Contact Pat also with photocopy requests.
	Table of Contents
	Introduction Historical & Genealogical Society General History -- "The Birth of Douglas County" compiled by Barbara Ann Vinson DeVore and edited by Randy Spurlock The First Inhabitants The Explorers and the First Settlers Ozark County Established Douglas County Established First County Seat (Vera Cruz) Second County Seat (Arno) Third County Seat (Ava) Communities Ava Champion Denlow Depew Dogwood Honey Branch Cave Olathia Ongo Richville Smallett Sweden Topaz Mill Vera Cruz Ozark Southern Railway 1910-1935 Military History --The Battles of Vera Cruz, Nov. 7, 1862 -- Nov. 3, 1864 by Jack C. Vineyard Veterans -- Memorial listing of those who gave their lives from Douglas County, Missouri. Sponsors Businesses Ava Drug Company, Inc. Ava Insurance Agency -- Area Land Realty Citizens Bank City of Ava Clinkingbeards Funeral Home Crystal Lake Fisheries Douglas County Elected Officials First Home Savings Bank Ozark Family Vision Center Spurlock's Store -- Squires Brooks Meat Market Missouri Foxtrotting Horse Breeders Association Douglas County National Bank Douglas County Bank Cooper Lumber Bill's Lumber, Inc. MFA Agri Services State Farm Insurance Churches Basher Church First Southern Baptist, Ava Ava General Baptist Church Highway Church of the Nazarene Pleasant Home Freewill Baptist Church St. Leo The Great Catholic Church Blue Buck Mountain Full Gospel Church First Baptist Church, Vanzant Girdner Church and Cemetery Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church Church Histories -- Denlow Church -- 1960 Eastern Gate Missionary Baptist Church Mount Calvary Church of Freewill Baptist Newhope Freewill Baptist Church Red Bank Church Roy Church of Christ Trinity Lutheran Church of Ava Vera Cruz Church Camp J-O-Y Bible Conference Grounds Organizations Sassafras Sprouts Hoedowners Douglas County Museum Memorial Section In Honor of Sally Phillips Gott In Memory of My Mother -- Ermie Mae Housley Smith In Memory of Barbara Ann Vinson DeVore Fay Daily Huffman and Arthur Huffman In Memory of Sarah Francis Ridenour In Memory of My Father, Hugh Clifton Rogers Schools Ava School (includes list of Superintendents and Principals) Breedon School Fairview School District #46 Hall School House Ozark Holiness Academy Patterson School District #92 Family Histories (approximately 1500 individual histories) Click Here for list of surname headings for the histories. Index (to approximately 2800 Surnames contained in the family histories)

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