McDonald County Historical Society
by Alberta Anders
McDonald County is and has, apparently, always been a very unique part of this country. A drive from Pineville to Lanagan via EE can only confirm what a beautiful area this is. The Queen Ann's Lace, or is it Yarrow?, the daisies, brown eyed Susan, flowering clover, so beautiful to behold (please don't pick, leave for future generations to enjoy) A check in the "Illustrated History of McDonald County, Missouri From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges Attorney at Law, Pineville, Mo. 1897." confirms that our current problems with alcohol (currently on our rivers) are not a new problem (Thanks to our very competent local Law Enforcement this problem is under control.) Mrs.
Lora S. LaMance reported in this publication, "The Temperance Work in McDonald County" as follows:
"The rise and growth of temperance sentiment in McDonald county has been somewhat out of the ordinary. To fully understand it, we must go back to the early days of its settlement. At the first, the county was largely settled by people from the Southern and Western states. The most genial, hospitable people on earth, their very qualities of BON HOMIE and good fellowship inclined them to convivialtity. There had been no temperance agitation, and none were troubled with scruples as to dram drinking or social treating. Most of the stores sold whisky, and sold it with as little concealment as they did their calicoes; every farmer brought his jug with him when he came to town to trade; every horse swapping or sale of land was confirmed by treats all around; every house and barn raising was dedicated by the passing of the whisky jug from hand to hand; the guests at every wedding grew hilarious with exhilarating corn-juice, while all too often the mourners of the funeral, drowned their sorrows the same day in the oblivion of drunkenness. Picnics, elections, and holidays were days of "a general good time," which expression covered everything from being gentlemanly foxy to lying dead drunk in the fence corner. Thus were sown the seeds for a bitter harvest of dissipation.......All this turbulent time two and three saloons were doing a flourishing business at the county seat, then a hamlet of less than two hundred inhabitants, but from its position the center of all this turmoil. Undoubtedly much of the incitement to strife came from the same iniquitous saloons, the breeders of mischief everywhere. Then again, there came back from the war a loose, wreckless class of persons, who drift as naturally to places where the law is weak and moral force at a low ebb, as the waters run down the hill. The period of 1865-70 was a shameful one that all of McDonald's Citizens would be glad to forget. It was a current saying that Pineville was the worst drinking hole in the state, and this fact furnishes the only reasonable explanation of how such an apalling list of crimes and misdemeanors could be committed in the midst of what had been before, and is at the present time, a most peaceful people....." There is much more, very interesting, and the rest of the story can be read at the McDonald County Historical Museum at 302 Harmon (formerly Health Department, next door to the U. S. Post Office in Pineville) - You are cordially invited to drop in, the hours are Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m. Copies of Judge Sturges fascinating and informative book are available for a donation of $25, or can be mailed to you for $30, just write to P. O. Box 372, Pineville, Missouri, 64856.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Shake-Down Tour
McDonald County Historical Society
by Alberta Anders
If you missed the "shake-down" tour on Saturday you missed a very interesting, informative and entertaining day. Thanks to Frankie Meyer there was much information and scenery shared. This was a small tour, just a taste of what is possible. Having started at the Anderson Train Depot (now city hall) and driving by Beaver Street and home of Dabbs Greer and the Dabbs Greer Old Town Swimming Hole and Old Bell Drug Store they stopped by the Mustang statue at the high school, representing courage, strength, and high ideals of the students of McDonald County. On Mud Springs Road they visited Judy Rickett's museum, they toured the old church in Southwest City, Al Dixon's barber shop and the landscaped yard at the historic Sanders House in Southwest City. The day was beautiful, made to order, as they drove along the historic Jefferson Highway and Ozark Trail and visited Lynn and William Mosby's amazing Ginger Blue Bed and Breakfast. They ended at the Shelt Noel Cemetery east of Noel. Frankie had provided information to surprise, delight and inform and six packed cars journeyed these area with
so much more to be traveled. We had people come all the way from Kansas
City to join and are looking forward to the rest of the tour laid out by Frankie that includes: Pineville, Craig O'Lea, Mack's Big Rock, State Conservation Park, Camp Tilden, Cyclone, Powell and the iron trestle bridge, Powell store and Brumley museum, bee bluff, Beantown, Success Schoolhouse, Longview store, Bethpage, Williams School, Old Stagecoach road. Watch this column and this paper for more information as we complete the tour of the south part of McDonald County and ....the rest of the story.......
We can no longer offer the 2009 calendars, both 2008 and 2009 are sold out and we are working on 2010. We still have copies, however, of "Illustrated History of McDonald County Missouri, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present time." originally printed in 1897, and reprinted for your enjoyment, we have this book Edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges, Attorney at Law, Pineville, Missouri 1897" available for a donation of $25, or $30 if you
want it mailed, as well as several other historical publications. Proceeds
support the Historical Society's preservation projects. Our museum is next
to the U. S. Post Office in Pineville on Harmon Street, and it is open Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Museum curator is David Sparlin and with volunteers Dorothy Beauchamp and Roger Crosswhite they make every effort to answer your questions and show you around. Check out our web page at info@mcdonaldcohistory.org and do stop by and see us.
by Alberta Anders
If you missed the "shake-down" tour on Saturday you missed a very interesting, informative and entertaining day. Thanks to Frankie Meyer there was much information and scenery shared. This was a small tour, just a taste of what is possible. Having started at the Anderson Train Depot (now city hall) and driving by Beaver Street and home of Dabbs Greer and the Dabbs Greer Old Town Swimming Hole and Old Bell Drug Store they stopped by the Mustang statue at the high school, representing courage, strength, and high ideals of the students of McDonald County. On Mud Springs Road they visited Judy Rickett's museum, they toured the old church in Southwest City, Al Dixon's barber shop and the landscaped yard at the historic Sanders House in Southwest City. The day was beautiful, made to order, as they drove along the historic Jefferson Highway and Ozark Trail and visited Lynn and William Mosby's amazing Ginger Blue Bed and Breakfast. They ended at the Shelt Noel Cemetery east of Noel. Frankie had provided information to surprise, delight and inform and six packed cars journeyed these area with
so much more to be traveled. We had people come all the way from Kansas
City to join and are looking forward to the rest of the tour laid out by Frankie that includes: Pineville, Craig O'Lea, Mack's Big Rock, State Conservation Park, Camp Tilden, Cyclone, Powell and the iron trestle bridge, Powell store and Brumley museum, bee bluff, Beantown, Success Schoolhouse, Longview store, Bethpage, Williams School, Old Stagecoach road. Watch this column and this paper for more information as we complete the tour of the south part of McDonald County and ....the rest of the story.......
We can no longer offer the 2009 calendars, both 2008 and 2009 are sold out and we are working on 2010. We still have copies, however, of "Illustrated History of McDonald County Missouri, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present time." originally printed in 1897, and reprinted for your enjoyment, we have this book Edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges, Attorney at Law, Pineville, Missouri 1897" available for a donation of $25, or $30 if you
want it mailed, as well as several other historical publications. Proceeds
support the Historical Society's preservation projects. Our museum is next
to the U. S. Post Office in Pineville on Harmon Street, and it is open Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Museum curator is David Sparlin and with volunteers Dorothy Beauchamp and Roger Crosswhite they make every effort to answer your questions and show you around. Check out our web page at info@mcdonaldcohistory.org and do stop by and see us.
Friday, May 29, 2009
McDonald County Historical Society
by Alberta Anders
As mentioned last week, we have now a copy of Missouri Life, the Magazine of
Missouri in it's first year, March April 1973, I will be quoting from "Big
Sugar Country" by Charles K. Edmonds with Bill Nunn (wonderful photographs
by Bill Nunn and art by Jay Steppleman...."For me, telling people about Big
Sugar Creek country is somewhat like a fellow telling about his best girl.
He wants people to appreciate her, but he doesn't want them to get too
familiar with her and take her away from him."...."About ten miles down the
road from Pineville is Cyclone. This is one of my favorite spots on all of
Big Sugar. Oldtimers say the Indians had a trading post here and that they
buried a horde of silver in the area. Nobody ever found any silver, but the
mummified body of an Indian child, wrapped in deerskin, was found nearby on
the old John Millison farm. It's now in the Smithsonian Institute...Cyclone
is also linked with the so-called legend of Trader's Gold. Some traders
from New Mexico were said to have been heading east with this gold when a
band of robbers attacked them at Cyclone. The traders had supposedly buried
the gold, but they were all killed and the robbers never found it. In the
Forties, some young men from over at Mountain claimed they had a map of the
buried gold. And they spent a lot of time digging for it but apparently
never found anything. --- Just a short distance up Big Sugar from Cyclone is
Penitentiary Bend. Here the creek makes a big horseshoe curve. A gang of
bandits holed up in a cave on a bluff there, west of Powell between Big and
Little Cedar Hollows. Officers nabbed them by slipping across the creek on
small boards, and they were sentenced to prison. That's how the spot got
its name. The bend is about a mile and a half around, and in making its
loop, the Big Sugar flows in every direction except north. In the first
half mile the bluff is so high that you can see for miles in all directions.
For people who like to sort out the trees from the forest, the Big Sugar
Country offers a big variety. Joe Schell, in his "Big Sugar Creek Country",
tells about that as well as anyone. "Along the creek in the bottoms and up
into the hills are a wide variety of beautiful trees----the water oak, post
oak, pin oak, white oak and several other varieties of oak, the giant
sycamore, mulberry, hackberry, wild cherry, wild plum, pine, cedar, elm,
backhaw, chinquapin, walnut and hickory. And there are several species of
maple that spread their autumn colors all over the entire country, along the
creek banks, on hillsides and deep in the hollows........and the
towns---like Bethpage, McNatt, Jane, Jacket and Mountain. None of them are
big. I guess that's one reason I like them. Joe Schell called this Big
Sugar country "a legendary paradise." To my thinking he's not far off. I
don't know of any place like it. And there's one difference in telling
about Big Sugar Country and telling about a favorite girl. Everybody can
appreciate it without taking it away from anybody else."
You can enjoy the 'magazine of Missouri' at the museum next door to U. S.
Post Office on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Check out our web pages: info@mcdonaldcohistory.org, and
www.McDonald cohistory.org/museum.htm and associated links.. We will meet
again in July at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville. We offerfree tours and invite you to drop in and visit
by Alberta Anders
As mentioned last week, we have now a copy of Missouri Life, the Magazine of
Missouri in it's first year, March April 1973, I will be quoting from "Big
Sugar Country" by Charles K. Edmonds with Bill Nunn (wonderful photographs
by Bill Nunn and art by Jay Steppleman...."For me, telling people about Big
Sugar Creek country is somewhat like a fellow telling about his best girl.
He wants people to appreciate her, but he doesn't want them to get too
familiar with her and take her away from him."...."About ten miles down the
road from Pineville is Cyclone. This is one of my favorite spots on all of
Big Sugar. Oldtimers say the Indians had a trading post here and that they
buried a horde of silver in the area. Nobody ever found any silver, but the
mummified body of an Indian child, wrapped in deerskin, was found nearby on
the old John Millison farm. It's now in the Smithsonian Institute...Cyclone
is also linked with the so-called legend of Trader's Gold. Some traders
from New Mexico were said to have been heading east with this gold when a
band of robbers attacked them at Cyclone. The traders had supposedly buried
the gold, but they were all killed and the robbers never found it. In the
Forties, some young men from over at Mountain claimed they had a map of the
buried gold. And they spent a lot of time digging for it but apparently
never found anything. --- Just a short distance up Big Sugar from Cyclone is
Penitentiary Bend. Here the creek makes a big horseshoe curve. A gang of
bandits holed up in a cave on a bluff there, west of Powell between Big and
Little Cedar Hollows. Officers nabbed them by slipping across the creek on
small boards, and they were sentenced to prison. That's how the spot got
its name. The bend is about a mile and a half around, and in making its
loop, the Big Sugar flows in every direction except north. In the first
half mile the bluff is so high that you can see for miles in all directions.
For people who like to sort out the trees from the forest, the Big Sugar
Country offers a big variety. Joe Schell, in his "Big Sugar Creek Country",
tells about that as well as anyone. "Along the creek in the bottoms and up
into the hills are a wide variety of beautiful trees----the water oak, post
oak, pin oak, white oak and several other varieties of oak, the giant
sycamore, mulberry, hackberry, wild cherry, wild plum, pine, cedar, elm,
backhaw, chinquapin, walnut and hickory. And there are several species of
maple that spread their autumn colors all over the entire country, along the
creek banks, on hillsides and deep in the hollows........and the
towns---like Bethpage, McNatt, Jane, Jacket and Mountain. None of them are
big. I guess that's one reason I like them. Joe Schell called this Big
Sugar country "a legendary paradise." To my thinking he's not far off. I
don't know of any place like it. And there's one difference in telling
about Big Sugar Country and telling about a favorite girl. Everybody can
appreciate it without taking it away from anybody else."
You can enjoy the 'magazine of Missouri' at the museum next door to U. S.
Post Office on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Check out our web pages: info@mcdonaldcohistory.org, and
www.McDonald cohistory.org/museum.htm and associated links.. We will meet
again in July at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville. We offerfree tours and invite you to drop in and visit
Thursday, May 21, 2009
McDonald County Historical Society
McDonald County Historical Society
by Alberta Anders
The McDonald County Historical Society held their semi-monthly meeting at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville on Sunday, May 17, 2009. As usual, the court room was packed with those who are interested in history.
Featured speaker was Noreen Neff Harper. Mrs. Harper brought a very interesting program as she shared pictures and literature relating to the realized dream of her deceased husband, Archie Neff to have the largest strawberry farm in Missouri. Their farm was 2 miles north and a little west of Splitlog Missouri. Noreen and Archie taught at the schoolroom at Hart and, at that time they held school only 8 months of the year, freeing them to work the strawberry season the rest of the year. Preferred, reported Noreen, was new timberland, cleared, it was better for the berries and the rocky terrain was desirable. She talked about mother plants, crowns, dibbles and that they planted 3,500 plants per acre and required constant care until fall, 8 to 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. At one time, she said, they had 110 acres under cultivation. They worked in temperatures that went to 115 and 117 degrees. The most any one picked, to her recollection, was 115 quarts in a day. In the late 50's they let people pick their own and people came from St Louis and as far away as Manhattan, Kansas, some staying in a motel, stemming the berries in the evening and packing them in dry ice for their trip home.. In the late 50's and 60's they began to sell the plants, 26 in a bundle and the most orders in a day was 65, but most people ordered from 25 to 500 plants. Noreen tagged the plants with Dept. Agriculture approval proving they were virus free.
Several people in the interested crowd, had been pickers for the Neff
Strawberry Farm. The very interesting session was followed by question
and answer session. Very ably helping Noreen was her 16 year old grand daughter, Malayla Seaman and her 17 year old grandson, Keenan Neff. I feel it is quite safe to say that all those attending had a very enjoyable afternoon.
Carol Klein reminded everyone that the Farmers Produce Market in Anderson on
59 Highway, just south of the city, held on Saturday morning, opening at 8:00 a.m. now has fresh locally grown strawberries available.
Frankie Meyer reminded everyone of the caravan tour (in your own car, please car pool if you can) to begin at the Anderson City Hall Saturday at 10:00 a.m.. Bring a sack lunch and join us as we tour the southern part of our County. We are working on making a tour guide that will be available at a later time. For more information contact Frankie Meyer 781-0671, frankiemeyer@yahoo.com or Jennifer Mikeska at jennifermikeska@courts.mo.gov or Colleen Epperson at the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce 417-223-888 info@mcdonaldcountychamber.org.
We have just received some very interesting papers, magazines and literature, donated by May Ewert of Pineville, you will want to check out the "Missouri Life The Magazine of Missouri, It's First Year," March-April 1973, very interesting.
Remember that the McDonald County Historical Museum on Harmon Street (next to the U. S. Post Office) in Pineville is open on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Our next Historical Society meeting will be held on July 18, at the same place as above at which time Mr. Bob Horton will talk about the eastern part of McDonald County.
Check out our www.mcdonaldcohistory.org/museum.htm.
by Alberta Anders
The McDonald County Historical Society held their semi-monthly meeting at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville on Sunday, May 17, 2009. As usual, the court room was packed with those who are interested in history.
Featured speaker was Noreen Neff Harper. Mrs. Harper brought a very interesting program as she shared pictures and literature relating to the realized dream of her deceased husband, Archie Neff to have the largest strawberry farm in Missouri. Their farm was 2 miles north and a little west of Splitlog Missouri. Noreen and Archie taught at the schoolroom at Hart and, at that time they held school only 8 months of the year, freeing them to work the strawberry season the rest of the year. Preferred, reported Noreen, was new timberland, cleared, it was better for the berries and the rocky terrain was desirable. She talked about mother plants, crowns, dibbles and that they planted 3,500 plants per acre and required constant care until fall, 8 to 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. At one time, she said, they had 110 acres under cultivation. They worked in temperatures that went to 115 and 117 degrees. The most any one picked, to her recollection, was 115 quarts in a day. In the late 50's they let people pick their own and people came from St Louis and as far away as Manhattan, Kansas, some staying in a motel, stemming the berries in the evening and packing them in dry ice for their trip home.. In the late 50's and 60's they began to sell the plants, 26 in a bundle and the most orders in a day was 65, but most people ordered from 25 to 500 plants. Noreen tagged the plants with Dept. Agriculture approval proving they were virus free.
Several people in the interested crowd, had been pickers for the Neff
Strawberry Farm. The very interesting session was followed by question
and answer session. Very ably helping Noreen was her 16 year old grand daughter, Malayla Seaman and her 17 year old grandson, Keenan Neff. I feel it is quite safe to say that all those attending had a very enjoyable afternoon.
Carol Klein reminded everyone that the Farmers Produce Market in Anderson on
59 Highway, just south of the city, held on Saturday morning, opening at 8:00 a.m. now has fresh locally grown strawberries available.
Frankie Meyer reminded everyone of the caravan tour (in your own car, please car pool if you can) to begin at the Anderson City Hall Saturday at 10:00 a.m.. Bring a sack lunch and join us as we tour the southern part of our County. We are working on making a tour guide that will be available at a later time. For more information contact Frankie Meyer 781-0671, frankiemeyer@yahoo.com or Jennifer Mikeska at jennifermikeska@courts.mo.gov or Colleen Epperson at the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce 417-223-888 info@mcdonaldcountychamber.org.
We have just received some very interesting papers, magazines and literature, donated by May Ewert of Pineville, you will want to check out the "Missouri Life The Magazine of Missouri, It's First Year," March-April 1973, very interesting.
Remember that the McDonald County Historical Museum on Harmon Street (next to the U. S. Post Office) in Pineville is open on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Our next Historical Society meeting will be held on July 18, at the same place as above at which time Mr. Bob Horton will talk about the eastern part of McDonald County.
Check out our www.mcdonaldcohistory.org/museum.htm.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Needed! Experts on McDonald County History.
Needed! Experts on McDonald County History.
A. At what site can you put one foot in Dixie and one foot out?
B. What is the name of the native pine trees?
C. Where is the county museum located?
D. What road do you take to get to the Chinquapin Walking Trail that has rare birds and plants?E. Where is the iron trestle bridge that will be converted to a walking bridge in the future?
F. Who is the most outstanding gospel songwriter of the century, and where did he live?
G. What town was named by a mule trader after a place in Arkansas where he previously lived?
H. At what site can you wrap your arms around a monument and be in three states at the same time?
I. Where can you find a gravestone that is so large a steam engine was needed to deliver it to the cemetery?
J. What town still has a sidewalk that has iron rings where people once tied up their horses?
K. Beaver Springs was the first name of what town?
L. The first courthouse (a log building) has been moved to what town and restored?
M. Volunteers at what post office stamp thousands of cards for out-of-state people during Christmas?
N. Name the wealthy Indian who paid three million dollars to extend the railroad tracks south from Joplin to McDonald County.
If you can answer most of these questions, we need your help!
The McDonald County Historical Society is sponsoring a “planning” tour of the county on Saturday, May 23. This tour will be used to collect information and suggestions from people who are familiar with historic and scenic sites in the county. That information will be used to develop a brochure that has driving loops that visitors and residents alike can use to enjoy the interesting sites in our beautiful county.
The completed brochure will also be used to organize an annual tour of the county. At the annual tour, residents and businesses in each region of the county will be able to showcase their areas.
Those who help at the planning tour will be given a packet that contains maps with proposed driving loops, a list of sites to see, and some information about those sites. The packet will also have questions to answer. Participants are encouraged to bring digital cameras. Photos for the fall brochure will be selected from those taken during the planning tour. Suggestions on additional sites and driving loops will be appreciated.
Participants are asked to bring beverages and a sack lunch. The planning tour will start at 10 a.m. at the brick depot at 119 W. Main in Anderson. Carpooling is encouraged. The tour will include sites in the areas around Anderson, Lanagan, Noel, Southwest City, Pineville and Powell.
Due to time restraints, the northern half of the county will not be included in the tour. That area will be included in another planning tour later this summer.
Advance registration (before May 19) is needed so that an adequate number of packets will be available. To pre-register, call the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce at 223-8888 or e-mail fjmeyer@4state.com.
Answers:
a. Southwest City
b. Short-leaf Pine
c. Pineville
d. Pineville Road
e. Powell
f. Albert Brumley and Powell
g. Rocky Comfort
h. Southwest City
i. Indian Springs
j. Southwest City
k. Anderson
l. Pineville
m. Noel
n. Mathias Splitlog
A. At what site can you put one foot in Dixie and one foot out?
B. What is the name of the native pine trees?
C. Where is the county museum located?
D. What road do you take to get to the Chinquapin Walking Trail that has rare birds and plants?E. Where is the iron trestle bridge that will be converted to a walking bridge in the future?
F. Who is the most outstanding gospel songwriter of the century, and where did he live?
G. What town was named by a mule trader after a place in Arkansas where he previously lived?
H. At what site can you wrap your arms around a monument and be in three states at the same time?
I. Where can you find a gravestone that is so large a steam engine was needed to deliver it to the cemetery?
J. What town still has a sidewalk that has iron rings where people once tied up their horses?
K. Beaver Springs was the first name of what town?
L. The first courthouse (a log building) has been moved to what town and restored?
M. Volunteers at what post office stamp thousands of cards for out-of-state people during Christmas?
N. Name the wealthy Indian who paid three million dollars to extend the railroad tracks south from Joplin to McDonald County.
If you can answer most of these questions, we need your help!
The McDonald County Historical Society is sponsoring a “planning” tour of the county on Saturday, May 23. This tour will be used to collect information and suggestions from people who are familiar with historic and scenic sites in the county. That information will be used to develop a brochure that has driving loops that visitors and residents alike can use to enjoy the interesting sites in our beautiful county.
The completed brochure will also be used to organize an annual tour of the county. At the annual tour, residents and businesses in each region of the county will be able to showcase their areas.
Those who help at the planning tour will be given a packet that contains maps with proposed driving loops, a list of sites to see, and some information about those sites. The packet will also have questions to answer. Participants are encouraged to bring digital cameras. Photos for the fall brochure will be selected from those taken during the planning tour. Suggestions on additional sites and driving loops will be appreciated.
Participants are asked to bring beverages and a sack lunch. The planning tour will start at 10 a.m. at the brick depot at 119 W. Main in Anderson. Carpooling is encouraged. The tour will include sites in the areas around Anderson, Lanagan, Noel, Southwest City, Pineville and Powell.
Due to time restraints, the northern half of the county will not be included in the tour. That area will be included in another planning tour later this summer.
Advance registration (before May 19) is needed so that an adequate number of packets will be available. To pre-register, call the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce at 223-8888 or e-mail fjmeyer@4state.com.
Answers:
a. Southwest City
b. Short-leaf Pine
c. Pineville
d. Pineville Road
e. Powell
f. Albert Brumley and Powell
g. Rocky Comfort
h. Southwest City
i. Indian Springs
j. Southwest City
k. Anderson
l. Pineville
m. Noel
n. Mathias Splitlog
McDonald County Historical Society
by Alberta Anders
We are counting on you. Our regular Society meeting will be this Sunday, May 17 at 2:00 p.m. at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville ( the new court house on "W", not the old one on the square) We are looking forward to a very special presentation presented by Noreen Neff who will talk about the strawberry industry in this area. You are invited to bring a strawberry dish to share.
We are still planning the tour of McDonald County for Saturday May 23, if you are interested in participating in this venture, contact Frankie Meyer 781-0671, frankiemeyer@yahoo. com or Jennifer Mikeska at jennifermikeska@courts.mo.gov or Colleen Epperson at the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce 417-223-8888. info@mcdonaldcountychamber.org.
Our bridge and water calendars were a huge success, all sold out and beginning to work on 2010, the subject of which will be the schools in the County, you won't want to miss out on your copy. Our mailing address is P.
O. Box 572, Pineville, Missouri 64856 (we are located at 302 Harmon, just off the s/e corner of the square, next door to the U. S. Post Office and our web page is www.mcdonaldcohistory.org.)
Still available for a donation of $25 is "Illustrated History of McDonald County, Missouri from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges, Attorney at Law, Pineville Mo. 1897" - Other historical books are available.
From the McDonald county Sesquicentennial Family Histories - 1849-1999, - (available at the museum)..." as reported by Marilyn Sarratt...."The progenitor of the McDonald County Russell family was Brice Russell. He was born in Scotland and educated as a minister in the High Church of England Presbyterian. He and three brothers fled their homeland during the days of persecution. They came to America to start new lives. After landing in Virginia, Brice never saw his brothers again. Brice did not preach in America. The Bible his father gave him was published in 1648. That Bible was passed down in the family and was in the possession of a great-grandson, Rev. G. B. Russell of West Point, Mississippi in 1905..."Near the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Brice settled in the Watauga Valley (Eastern
Tennessee) He married Jane Thompson. They had nine children: George, Brice, Jr., Jane, Rachel, Isabella, Mary, James, Andrew and Joseph..Family history relates that Brice's wife, Jane, was scalped to her ears and left for dead by marauding Indians. They killed son George and two daughters.
Rachel and Isabella were taken and made captive slaves. Jane was found by some Negro children who alerted local whites who then took charge of her care. She lived for many years thereafter. The girls ages, 10 and 12 were taken to Michigan by the Indians and kept as slaves until they were grown.
When they were adults, they and a fellow captive, Raif Nailor, a Frenchman, decided to make their escape. They were successful. Later Isabella married Raif....Many Russell descendants still make McDonald county their home and are proud of their heritage."
Are you a descendant of the Russell Family? Many names in the rest of this story, too many to enumerate, however, the McDonald County Historical Museum is open on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - come by and find your family.
by Alberta Anders
We are counting on you. Our regular Society meeting will be this Sunday, May 17 at 2:00 p.m. at the McDonald County Court House in Pineville ( the new court house on "W", not the old one on the square) We are looking forward to a very special presentation presented by Noreen Neff who will talk about the strawberry industry in this area. You are invited to bring a strawberry dish to share.
We are still planning the tour of McDonald County for Saturday May 23, if you are interested in participating in this venture, contact Frankie Meyer 781-0671, frankiemeyer@yahoo. com or Jennifer Mikeska at jennifermikeska@courts.mo.gov or Colleen Epperson at the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce 417-223-8888. info@mcdonaldcountychamber.org.
Our bridge and water calendars were a huge success, all sold out and beginning to work on 2010, the subject of which will be the schools in the County, you won't want to miss out on your copy. Our mailing address is P.
O. Box 572, Pineville, Missouri 64856 (we are located at 302 Harmon, just off the s/e corner of the square, next door to the U. S. Post Office and our web page is www.mcdonaldcohistory.org.)
Still available for a donation of $25 is "Illustrated History of McDonald County, Missouri from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges, Attorney at Law, Pineville Mo. 1897" - Other historical books are available.
From the McDonald county Sesquicentennial Family Histories - 1849-1999, - (available at the museum)..." as reported by Marilyn Sarratt...."The progenitor of the McDonald County Russell family was Brice Russell. He was born in Scotland and educated as a minister in the High Church of England Presbyterian. He and three brothers fled their homeland during the days of persecution. They came to America to start new lives. After landing in Virginia, Brice never saw his brothers again. Brice did not preach in America. The Bible his father gave him was published in 1648. That Bible was passed down in the family and was in the possession of a great-grandson, Rev. G. B. Russell of West Point, Mississippi in 1905..."Near the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Brice settled in the Watauga Valley (Eastern
Tennessee) He married Jane Thompson. They had nine children: George, Brice, Jr., Jane, Rachel, Isabella, Mary, James, Andrew and Joseph..Family history relates that Brice's wife, Jane, was scalped to her ears and left for dead by marauding Indians. They killed son George and two daughters.
Rachel and Isabella were taken and made captive slaves. Jane was found by some Negro children who alerted local whites who then took charge of her care. She lived for many years thereafter. The girls ages, 10 and 12 were taken to Michigan by the Indians and kept as slaves until they were grown.
When they were adults, they and a fellow captive, Raif Nailor, a Frenchman, decided to make their escape. They were successful. Later Isabella married Raif....Many Russell descendants still make McDonald county their home and are proud of their heritage."
Are you a descendant of the Russell Family? Many names in the rest of this story, too many to enumerate, however, the McDonald County Historical Museum is open on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - come by and find your family.
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