Collage of Cape County

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Slave Documents from Circuit Court Records
Devenport-Cobb Bible Record

Vital Records from the Cape Girardeau County Post, 1918-1919 (Part VI)
Answers to Previous “How Much Do You Know About Missouri History?”

Some Early History of Old Appleton and Sec 16, Twp 33 N, Rng 12 E
Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part I.)
Fleming and Stevenson Obituaries from the Alton Observer
In Memory of Mrs. Louisa Deane - Sketch of Her Family
Death Claims Mrs. Putz, 85

The Stantons of Scott, Cape Girardeau and St. Louis Counties in Missouri (First of a Series)
Greer Davis Letter: Seeking the release of Washington L. Watkins
Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part II.)

Births of the Slaves of John Jacob Cordell
Edward A. Spears, Jr. Family
Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part III)

The Stantons of Scott, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis Counties in Missouri (Emma Camster Green)

Baptisms: Lutheran Congregation near Apple Creek (Arnsberg)

Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part III.)

The Stantons of Scott, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis Counties in Missouri—The Bits and Pieces Finally Come Together

The Stantons of Scott, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis Counties in Missouri—The Bits and Pieces Finally Come Together

Deaths, Communicants, & Confirmations: Lutheran Congregation near Apple Creek (Arnsberg)

Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part V.)

Edward F. Regenhardt and the Construction of the Steps from Spanish Street to the Common Pleas Courthouse

Lists of Members: Lutheran Congregation near Apple Creek (Arnsberg)

Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part VI.)

Kent Library Civil War Document Digitization Project

The House by the Side of the Road (Weona Ranch)

St. Johns United Church of Christ

Bit of History: Wilhelm Family

Cape Girardeau Timeline

Fairmont Cemetery Paupers’ Burials (Part VII.)

From the President

The Stantons of Scott: The Immediate Family of Cecelia (Celie) Wilson

Machen Scrapbook Donated to Society

The Stantons of Scott: Parents of Amanda Williams Brown, John’s Wife, George and Eliza Williams

Cape Girardeau County Archives to Scan Family Bibles

Queries

From the President

The Family of James Reynolds & the Reynolds House and Mill

History of My Family (Nunn, Miller, and Alexander Families)

Queries

From the President
Reflections on What Might Have Been (Niswonger, Roe families)
Legend and Fact in Genealogy
Jesse Stanton, Ex-slave: The Man Who Gave Us Our Name
Clarification on History of my Family (Nunn, Miller, and Alexander Families)
Queries

From the President

Whatever Happened to David Rudiseale?

 

From the President

One of the Family Slaves (John (King) Snyder) – Part I

Memories of Aunt Phene - Josephine Brown Piercefield Rice Davis

From the President

Ledger Book of Taylor & Hempstead

New State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center in Cape Girardeau

Obituaries: Elizabeth (Faust) Taylor and Robert L. Taylor

One of the Family Slaves (John (King) Snyder) – Part II

From the President

The Stantons of Scott: John (Johnny) and Catherine Brown Allen

One of the Family Slaves (John (King) Snyder) – Part III

On the Shelf

Queries

From the President

James M. Ragland/John Rodney Pocket Book

Receipts, Notes, and Other Documents from the Papers of Robert L. Taylor

Useful Websites for Document Conservation Information.

From the President

Lt. David Randall and the Battle of Bushy Run

Julia Gill – Civil War Nurse

DNA Testing: The Genealogical Game Changer and What it Means for the Van
Gilder Family

From the Editor

Diary of an 1858 Wagon Train Journey (John C. Darr Diary)

Queries

From the Editor

A Hollowed Tree for a Home

Civil War Widow’s Pension Application File: Matilda Selle (Soldier: Otto Selle)

Vignettes from the Lives of Acie and Grace (Fulbright) Sherrill

One the shelf

Queries

2015 National Genealogical Society Full Program Announced – St. Charles, Mo.

Index to Bird’s Warehouse Ledger, 1830-1836

1883 Pensioners in Cape Girardeau County

Query

Managing Your Genealogy Data (Thomas MacEntee)

Building a Research Toolbox (Thomas MacEntee).

George Washington Corbin in the Civil War

1862 Cape Girardeau and Perry Counties Income Tax Assessment List, Part I

Cape Girardeau’s Lost Civil War Fort

Shrum Family Information from Old Wallet

1862 Cape Girardeau and Perry Counties Income Tax Assessment List, Part II

Runaway Slave Handbill (Goens Family)

Clarification of a Given Name – Talitha Cumy English

Patricia (Shively) Elmore Memorial

Queries

Dr. Patrick Gilroy: Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon

On the Shelf

Library Report

Query

What Can You Find in a Petition to Partition File? Charles Wall (Part I)

Signers of 1806 Memorial Who Were Living in the Cape Girardeau District

Queries

The Engelmanns

What can you find in a Petition to Partition File? Charles Wall (Part II)

Mary Lee Rasmussen

Signers of 1810 Petition who were living in the Cape Girardeau District

On the Shelf

Lambert (John Henry) Bolk Family

Unrecorded Deed, Moses and Sally Gray to Nancy Randol

Philip and Frances (Daugherty) Cooter Bible

Deeds for Wills Family as Granters:  Deed Books Q-Z, 1850-1867

Letters Relating to the John Pierce & Ruth (Steelman) Pierce Family

Vangilder Bible

Bollinger County Delinquent Tax List, 1866

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames A-B

Political View Lists for Cape Girardeau County – Civil War Era

Excerpts from the Probate File of Daniel Davis

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames C-D

The Camp Fremont Register - September 25, 1861 (Part I.)

Query

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames E-H (part).

Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon – Dr. Patrick Gilroy (Part II)

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames S (part) – U (part)

A New Orleans Doctor with Jeff Thompson – Dr. John S. Gaulden Gilroy.

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames U (part) – Z

Stroder Bible Records

Missouri War of 1812 Organization and Officers.

Find-a-Grave Will Change

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames M (part)- P (part)

Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon – Dr. Patrick Gilroy

On the Shelf

Query

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames P (part)- S (part)

Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon – Dr. Patrick Gilroy (Part II

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames S (part) – U (part)

A New Orleans Doctor with Jeff Thompson – Dr. John S. Gaulden Gilroy.

Civil War Draft Registration for Cape Girardeau County, Surnames U (part) – Z

The Morgan Family: An Autobiography by Thomas Washington Morgan

On The Shelf

Graduation Programs - Central High School (1928) and SEMO Colleage (1933)

Turn of the Century Poem About Cape Girardeau -1900

A History of the Baptists in Missouri - Chapter on Cape Girardeau Association

Locating and Using Missouri Tax Lists – With Emphasis on Cape Girardeau County

Excerpts from Telling of the Days of My Years by Adolf Heinrich Philipps

Selected Documents from the Widow’s Pension File of Harriet Ivers, wife of James

September 2019

Wiggins and Weaver’s Ohio River Directory Cape Girardeau – 1871-72

Sheriffs of Cape Girardeau County, 1805-2019

Epidemics in U. S. History

Four Decades of Researching the Brooks Family by Kevin Kelly

On the Shelf

A Ruckus at the Oak Ridge Church in 1872

Dr. Erasmus Ellis is Accused of Stealing a Slave (1809).