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The Miller County, Missouri
Genealogy Page

Cemeteries - other listings

• Capps Cemetery (submitted by Gracie L. (Clark) Taylor)
• Eldon Cemetery
• Freedom Cemetery (submitted by Shirley Sieting)
• Jenkins Cemetery [submitted by Mitch]
• Madden Rural Cemetery (submitted by Jeff Mitchell)
• Mary's Home
• Mt. Pleasant
• Tuscumbia Cemetery

History

• Livingston Family of Miller County by Olive Waites Livingston (submitted by Mary Lynn Reed)
• This is a great account of life in rural Miller County in the 19th Century. In addition it contains information on Reeds and Waites.

Query Board

Post queries and share information on the RootsWeb Message Board for Miller County. You can enter your query directly through your web browser; and if you wish, you can be notified by email whenever someone posts a response.

The RootsWeb Message Board for Morgan County is the successor to the GenConnect message boards, which were started on 4 May 1999.

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Links to Other Miller County Sites

Data Posted by Volunteers

• Miller County ALHN Site - that's the American Local History Network. The site currently has historical information, photos, pioneer journals, and lots of useful links. Many thanks to Kevin Vernon for doing the work! (Added 5 Feb. 2000).
• Cemeteries in Miller County & Who's Buried There (Courtesy of Sharan Lesmeister) - the USGenWeb archives for Miller County, you'll find lists for Allen, Curry, Jackson, Jarret, Jeffries, New Hope and Pleasant Hill Christian Church Cemeteries
• A list of slave owners in 1859 is available as part of the Missouri Slave Data project. (Added 5 Aug. 2000)

Other Useful Sites

• Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Miller County: info on Tallman-Brown Families and Clarence Boyce Wright diaries, 1912-1926
• The Ozarks Genealogical Society's Home Page: membership information, publications, library, etc.
• Civil War Veterans in Miller County.

Miller County Newspapers

Courtesy of Dale Vernon of Vernon Publishing Company and Pat Calton, the following links will take to the the current news from these newspapers in Miller County. The web sites do not include any archives of past issues, only the present week; but they do give the newspapers' telephone numbers which might be helpful for someone doing genealogical research.

• Eldon Advertiser - covers Eldon, Lake Ozark, Eugene, Barnett, Russelville, Rocky Mount & Osage Beach
• Miller County Autogram Sentinel - covers Tuscumbia, Iberia, Brumley & Ulman

Email Lists

• Missouri-Roots-L: A mailing list devoted to Missouri genealogy and discussions. To subscribe, click on the link or send an email message to "[email protected]" and type "SUB MISSOURI-ROOTS-L Your Name" in the body of the message with your signature files removed. Leave the subject line blank. To post messages, just follow the instructions you will receive.
• Missouri-L: A mailing list set by up Rootsweb that is designed for research and discussion. To subscribe to Missouri-L, click on the link and send the message subscribe with your signature files removed. To post messages to the list, follow the instructions that will be sent to you.
• MOMILLER-L: This list has been created by Rootsweb just for Miller County, MO. To subscribe to MOMILLER-L, click on the link and send a message containing just the word "subscribe", with your signature files removed. To post messages to the list, follow the instructions you will receive in my "welcome" letter. Note: do not use this link to send queries! The only "people" who will receive them are me and the computer that handles automatic subscription requests. Instead, use this link to subscribe, and then post your message; or put your query on the RootsWeb Message Board above.

Searching the Miller County E-Mail List Archives

I heartily recommend that new visitors search these archives for their surnames, since the archives contain many, many obituaries and other materials posted by volunteers.

Can you help with these photos?

• Barb Lowry would like to identify two ladies from her grandmother's picture book; their names may be Stubblefield, Hicks, Williams or Templeton.
• Charlene Uchtman hopes to identify "Pa Paine" and "Aunt Jane" in a 1916 photo of the Vernon clan.

Miller County Courthouse, Tuscumbia, MO 65082

• County Clerk has birth records from 1883 to 1891; County Recorder has marriage and divorce records; Probate Judge has property records; local register has burial records. It is best to check with the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, MO for these records first.

A little history...

Miller County, named after early Missouri Governor John Miller, was organized February 6, 1837 from parts of Pulaski and Cole Counties. It is situated twenty miles southwest of Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri. The Osage River bisects the county. Bagnell Dam, on the western edge of the county, forms the Lake of the Ozarks.

The first historical inhabitants of Miller County were the friendly Osage Indians. In 1822, the Indians had a village at the joining of Barren Fork and Tavern creeks, at the present Wilson Cave, named for John Wilson who later occupied the cave. The first white man to record his visits in Miller County was Zebulon M. Pike who, with a group of Indians, traveled up the Osage River, passing by the present site of Tuscumbia in 1806.

The county seat of justice was established at Tuscumbia on land donated by James P. Harrison. The first county court session was held in the log cabin of an early settler, William Miller, located downriver from Tuscumbia.

Major towns besides Tuscombia include Pleasant Mount, Spring Garden, Etterville, Eldon, Rocky Mount, Aurora Springs, Bagnell, Blackmer, Brumley, Capps, Faith, Iberia, Atwell, Brays, Blyse, Claxby, St. Elizabeth, Ramsey, Pleasantfarm, Ulman, Marys Home, and Brouses Bend.

Click [HERE] to see a map of Miller County.

Miller County Historical Society

P.O. Box 57
Highway 52 West
Tuscumbia, Missouri
U.S.A. 65082-0057

The cabin built in the late 1860s by Peter Burton Lupardus, donated by Gary Flaugher and beautifully restored by the Lupardus descendents on the grounds of the Miller County Historical Society

Surrounding Counties

To go further afield, look at the map of the counties of Missouri.

Missouri Links

• Missouri GenWeb (MOGenWeb) Page
• RootsWeb Missouri Page
• Archives and Manuscript Repositories in Missouri - links page at the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• National Archive and Records Administration (NARA): Central Plains Region, Kansas City, MO
• Missouri State Archives
• State Historical Society of Missouri
• Index to the Civil War in Missouri
• Cyndi Howell's Missouri Page
• Anne Hood's Missouri Page - links to personal web pages of people researching Missouri families
• Missouri Pioneers - alphabetical lists of pre-1890 Missouri settlers, as submitted by users
• Missouri Tourism Online

Some Very Special Lists From Kathy Welch Heidel

• Missouri in the Civil War (Miss this one at your own risk, fellow Missourians)
• Kansas in the Civil War
• Pieces of Thyme
• The Potawatomi Tribe of Oklahoma

Genealogy Links

• Cyndi Howell's Genealogy Site
• Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web
• Information for Researchers (from USGenWeb)
• Genealogical Resources on the Internet
• "I Found It" (Search Engine for Genealogical Sites on the Internet)
• Vital Records - All States Index
• Roots-L
• The Genealogy Mall Check out the Mega Links - Fabulous. (Contributed by Mary Ann Pickett)
• From Don Blankenship, a frequent contributor to the Miller County MOGenWeb, comes this excellent site with over 200 links: "A Barrel of Links"
• Birth Date Calculator
• U.S. Bureau of the Census Maps - Miller County
• US Geological Survey - Geographic Names Query (Great for locating cemeteries, churches, towns, lakes, rivers, schools, etc.)

The MOGenWeb/USGenWeb Project

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the KentuckyGenWeb project. This grew into the USGenWeb project and eventually the WorldGenWeb effort. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. The MOGenWeb is part of that project.

Send comments and questions to Dianna Hale-Mattingly and do come back to visit. New materials will be added all the time!

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