Greene County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

More than 3400 pages of Greene County, Missouri history and genealogy including 1391 family biographies plus 52 Greene County communities on 6 different maps plus 1904 Greene County, Missouri Plat Map Book plus Greene County Cemetery Location Maps

An informative and historical overview of Greene County, Missouri including six separate sections on one CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929) showing the locations of 52 Greene County, Missouri settlements; plus the full 1883 History of Greene County, Missouri book by the Western Historical Company including 525 Greene County family biographies; plus the 1893 Pictorial and Genealogical Record of Greene County, Missouri by Goodspeed Publishing Company; plus the full 1915 A. W. Bowen & Company Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri book by Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck with 2166 pages and 666 biographies plus the 1904 Plat Map Book of Greene County, Missouri plus Cemetery Location Maps of Greene County showing the location of 75 different cemeteries. An important resource for the study and research of Greene County, Missouri history and genealogy, including a detailed history of the Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek.

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

Section One of six, ALL on one CD: Maps of Greene County, Missouri
Included here are the Ozark region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Greene County, Missouri only 18 years after Greene County was formed. Locations shown: Ozark * Pleasant Prairie * Richland * Springfield * Walnut Forest * White Oak Grove *

B. A map of 1902 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 24 different settlements including all of the following: Bois d' Arc * Brookline Station * Buckley * Cave Spring * Dorchester * Ebenezer * Elwood ( Campbells Station ) * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Gates * Harold * Heady * Hickory Barren * Lyman * Mascott * Mumford * Needmore * Nichols * Palace * Phenix * Republic * Springfield * Strafford * Walnutgrove ( Walnut Grove ) * Willard *

C. A map of 1904 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 44 different settlements including all of the following: Abbott * Alsup * Bassville * Bois D'Arc * Brookline Station * Buckley * Cavespring ( Cave Spring ) * Clair * Cody * Dorchester * Ebenezer * Elwood * Expansion * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Galloway * Gates * Gledewell * Hackney * Harold * Haven * Heady * Hickory Barren * Lori * Mascot * Mentor * Mumford * Needmore * Nichols * Nogo * Palace * Palmetto * Pearl * Phoenix * Plano * Republic * Riverpark * Roseville * Sacville * Springfield * Strafford * Turners * Walnutgrove ( Walnut Grove ) * Willard * Yeakley * The 1904 map of Greene County can be viewed here: Greene County, Missouri 1904 Map

D. A map of 1913 Greene County, Missouri showing the locations of 32 different settlements including all of the following: Alsup * Ash Grove * Bethesda * Bois D'Arc * Brookline * Cave Spring * Clair * Cody * Ebeneezer * Expansion * Fairgrove ( Fair Grove ) * Galloway * Gates * Hackney * Harold * Haven * Hickory * Mentor * Mumford * Nichols * Palace * Palmetto * Pearl * Phoenix * Plano * River Park * Sackville * Springfield * Strafford * Turner * Walnut Grove * Willard *

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!

Section Two of six, ALL on one CD: Greene County, Missouri 1904 Plat Map Book
This 39 page plat map book is in full color and at the original large format size.  These maps show not only each of the cities and towns in Greene County in 1904 but also each of the rural townships.  Those who owned farm acreage in rural area are shown by name which makes it possible to pinpoint the location of where an individual family actually lived in 1904.  This plat map book is a rare and valuable resource for genealogy and historical research in Greene County, Missouri.

Section Three of six, ALL on one CD: The complete 1883 History of Greene County, Missouri by the Western Historical Company.
This detailed (869 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Greene County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Greene County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 525 different Greene County, Missouri family biographies.
 

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

• Pioneer History in Greene County, Missouri

• Early Settlers of Greene County, Missouri

• From Organization of Greene County to 1840

• Organization of First Greene County Townships

• First Circuit Court in Greene County, Missouri

• The Star Shower of 1833

• The Osage War

• The Sarcoxie War

• Greene County, Missouri History 1840 to 1850

• Greene County, Missouri in the Mexican War

• Greene County, Missouri History 1850 to 1856

• The California Gold Fever strikes Greene County, Missouri

• Railroad Matters in Greene County, Missouri

• Hanging of Willis Washam

• Greene County, Missouri History 1856 to 1860

• Bleeding Kansas and Greene County, Missouri

• Slave Sales in Greene County

• Building the New Greene County Court House

• Hanging of Mart. Danforth

• Greene County, Missouri History 1860 to 1861

• The Civil War Begins in Greene County, Missouri

• The Battle of Wilson's Creek (lengthy, very detailed)

• The Death of General Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's Creek

• Other Civil War Events in 1861

• Civil War Events in Greene County, Missouri of 1862

• Runaway Slaves

• Civil War Events in Greene County, Missouri of 1863

• The Battle of Springfield, Missouri

• Civil War Events 1864 to 1865 in Greene County, Missouri

• Guerilla Raids Through Greene County, Missouri

• Military Executions in Greene County, Missouri During War

• Greene County, Missouri History 1865 to 1870

• The Reign of the Regulators Greene County, Missouri

• Greene County, Missouri History 1870 to 1875

• Kansas City & Memphis Railroad in Greene County

• Pacific Railroad in Greene County

• Lynching at Walnut Grove, Missouri

• Greene County, Missouri History 1875 to 1883

• Biographies of Prominent Greene County, Missouri Citizens

• History of Greene County Townships: Walnut Grove Township * Boone Township * Center Township * Pond Creek Township * Brookline Township * Wilson Township * Clay Township * Washington Township * Taylor Township * Cass Township * Campbell Township * Franklin Township * Jackson Township * Robberson Township *

• The City of Springfield, Missouri

• The Killing of Dave Tutt by Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield, Missouri  read here

• Drury College in Springfield, Missouri

• North Springfield, Missouri

• Greene County Cities, Towns, and Villages: Ash Grove * Bois D'Arc * Brookline * Cave Spring * Fair Grove * North Springfield * Republic * Springfield * Strafford

• Greene County, Missouri Family Biographies (525 family biographies)

Included is a total of 525 Greene County family biographies including each of the following family surnames: (to view a sample biography from this book, click here)
(more than 1000 other family surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these family biographies): (see additional family biographies in the two books listed below) Abbott * Acuff * Alexander * Anderson * Appleby * Arrington * Austin * Bacon * Bailey * Bair * Baker * Balay * Baldwin * Barclay * Barnes * Barrett * Baxter * Beal * Bearden * Beckerleg * Beer * Bennett * Benson * Berry * Betson * Biggs * Bishop * Blackman * Blackwell * Blades * Blanchard * Bobbitt * Bodenhamer * Boone * Bossert * Bowerman * Boyd * Brewer * Britain * Brockman * Brown * Buck * Buttram * Camp * Campbell * Carson * Carter * Cass * Clark * Claypool * Clayton * Cliborne * Cloud * Coffey * Coltrane * Conlon * Cooper * Coover * Cordray * Cox * Crane * Cravens * Crawford * Criswell * Crutcher * Culbertson * Dabbs * Dalrymple * Danforth * Davis * Dawley * Day * Delaney * Dillard * Dingeldein * Dishman * Dobbs * Dodson * Donnell * Dryden * Duncan * Eckstorm * Edmundson * Edwards * Egan * Elson * Elwood * Emery * Epley * Epperson * Escott * Evans * Eversol * Fain * Fairbanks * Fay * Fellows * Ferguson * Fielder * Fine * Fletcher * Forshee * Foster * Frame * Frazier * Freeman * Fryar * Gardner * Garoutte * Garton * Garwood * Gates * Geiger * Geister * Gibson * Gideon * Gilmore * Glover * Gott * Gottfried * Grantham * Gray * Grist * Gubler * Gurley * Hackney * Haden * Hall * Hamblen * Harralson * Haseltine * Hasler * Hasten * Haswell * Hawkins * Haydon * Heacker * Headlee * Headley * Heckart * Heer * Heffernan * Hendrix * Herman * Higgins * Hill * Hobart * Holland * Holman * Hornbeak * Horning * Hosey * Hosman * Hovey * Howell * Hoyal * Hubbard * Hubble * Hudgings * Hulse * Huntington * Huston * Hyde * Ingram * Jackson * James * Jenkin * Jessup * Johns * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Julian * Kanada * Kanning * Kaufholtz * Kearney * Keener * Keet * Kelly * Kennedy * Kerr * Kersey * Killingsworth * Kime * King * Kinney * Kirby * Kirkham * Kroff * Lacy * Laker * Lamb * Lambeth * Langston * Larew * Leslie * Likins * Lisenby * Lohmeyer * Long * Longcrier * Love * Lowdermilk * Lydon * Lyman * Mack * Macloskey * Mannel * Mansfield * Marsh * Martin * Marx * Mason * Massey * McAdams * McAdoo * McCabe * McCammon * McCarty * McCauley * McCleary * McCluer * McCollah * McCracken * McCraw * McCrory * McDaniel * McElhanon * McElhany * McGown * McKenna * McKerall * McKibben * McLean * McLemore * McMaster * McMehen * McPherson * Means * Melcher * Merritt * Miller * Milner * Moist * Monaghan * Moore * Morhiser * Morice * Morrow * Morton * Mount * Murphy * Murray * Neaves * Neiswanger * Nelson * Newbill * Newton * Nichols * Noe * Noleman * Norfleet * Norris * Nutt * O'Day * Odell * O'Neal * Onstott * Owen * Paine * Painter * Palmer * Park * Parker * Parrish * Patterson * Paxson * Peacher * Perkins * Perryman * Pettitt * Phelps * Pierce * Piper * Plank * Pollack * Porter * Price * Prigmore * Prophet * Prunty * Putnam * Quicksell * Quisenberry * Rand * Rathbone * Rawdon * Rea * Redfearn * Reynolds * Rice * Riggs * Ritter * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Rogers * Rothschild * Rountree * Ruby * Rule * Russell * Sander * Savage * Schmook * Schuller * Schultz * Shephard * Sheppard * Sherwood * Shipman * Shockley * Short * Sibley * Simmons * Sims * Sittler * Skelton * Smith * Snow * Snyder * Sommers * Speaker * Spencer * Sprague * Sprinkle * Squibb * Staley * Steele * Stevenson * Stewart * Stones * Stoughton * Stringer * Sutter * Swinney * Tatum * Tevis * Thies * Thomas * Thompson * Thoms * Tisdell * Townsend * Tracy * Travers * Tribble * Turner * Tuttle * Utter * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Vaughn * Vinton * Waddell * Wade * Wadlow * Walker * Ward * Warner * Watson * Watterson * Watts * Weaver * Weir * Wentworth * West * White * Wiley * Wilhoit * Williams * Wilson * Wood * Woodward * Worrell * Wright * Zink *

Section Four of six, ALL on one CD: The complete 1893 Pictorial and Genealogical Record of Greene County, Missouri by the Goodspeed Publishing Company.
This scarce volume consists entirely of biographies of Greene County, Missouri citizens with a few additional biographies of persons of state wide note. A total of 392 pages with 200 biographies and also includes a number of photographs. 

The biographies included are: To view a sample biography from this book, click here  Abbott * Adams * Ahern * Akin * Allen * Altschul * Anderson * Arnold * Atkinson * Austin * Baker * Barrett * Beal * Bell * Bennett * Bentley * Benton * Biggs * Blair * Bland * Boehmer * Boston * Bowden * Boyd * Brown * Buckley * Calland * Camp * Carr * Chandler * Clements * Clyde * Cockrell * Coltrane * Comegys * Conn * Corum * Cowden * Cox * Cravens * Crittenden * Crow * Cunningham * Davis * Delaney * Delo * Denby * Dodson * Donham * Donnell * Dorrell * Duncan * Dunklin * Eads * Eckstein * Elson * Evans * Everett * Fairbanks * Fath * Fellows * Ferguson * Foley * Frink * Fullbright * Galloway * Gates * Gault * Gear * Gideon * Goode * Gray * Greenwade * Haeberle * Haldeman * Hampton * Hardy * Harrington * Hayden * Hazeltine * Heer * Heffernan * Henshey * Holder * Hollister * Horine * Hosey * Houston * Hubbard * Huwyler * Jarrett * Johnson * Jones * Julian * Jump * Kennedy * Kent * Kersey * Koenigsbruck * Love * Mack * Mansur * Massey * McAdams * McBride * McCammon * McClure * McClurg * McCullah * McDavid * McKoin * Mellette * Milner * Mooney * Morrow * Mullings * Murray * Musick * Newbill * Norbury * O'Day * Odermatt * Owen * Owens * Parse * Paxson * Peacher * Pepperdine * Phelps * Phillips * Prentiss * Price * Pursselley * Reed * Reilly * Ritter * Roundtree * Rout * Saye * Sayers * Scharff * Schmook * Schurz * Scott * Sebree * Shepard * Simcox * Stone * Swinney * Tatlow * Tatum * Thompson * Thrasher * Travers * Tutt * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Vest * Wadlow * Wallace * Warner * Watts * Weaver * Whinrey * White * Wilson * Wood * Woods * Wright * Yancy * Yeakley *

Section Five of six, ALL on one CD: The complete 1915 Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri by Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck and published by A. W. Bowen & Company. 

This rarely seen massive two volume set of books contains a total of 2166 pages (plus numerous engravings) and includes a total 666 family biographies.  This is the most detailed history of Greene County, Missouri ever written.  Included is a total of 666 Greene County family biographies (very valuable for genealogy) including each of the following family surnames:  (thousands of other family surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these family biographies): (see additional family biographies in the second book listed above) (to view a sample biography from this book, click here) Abbott * Albert * Albright * Allebach * Allen * Anderson * Andrew * Anthony * Armstrong * Arnett * Atherton * Atteberry * Atwood * Aumoth * Ausherman * Bacon * Bair * Baker * Banfield * Banister * Barnes * Barrett * Barron * Barton * Bass * Bassett * Bates * Baxter * Beal * Beatie * Beckerleg * Bennett * Benson * Berry * Beyer * Billasch * Bishop * Bissett * Blanchard * Bodenhamer * Bomgardner * Bon * Booth * Bowland * Bowman * Boyd * Boyer * Bradley * Brazill * Briggs * Bright * Brower * Brown * Bryant * Burge * Busch * Butler * Butts * Camp * Campbell * Cantrell * Carroll * Carter * Cass * Chaffin * Chalfant * Chappell * Chavose * Childress * Chrisman * Christman * Clark * Claypool * Clements * Cloud * Coffelt * Cole * Colvin * Condon * Constance * Coon * Cooper * Cornell * Counts * Cowan * Cowden * Cowell * Crane * Crawford * Crenshaw * Crow * Crowdus * Culler * Dabbs * Dade * Daggett * Daigler * Dale * Dando * Daniel * Danzero * Darby * Dark * Davis * Deaton * DeBoard * Deeds * DeGroff * DeLange * Delzell * Demuth * Dennis * Devereaux * Dewey * DeWitt * Diffenderffer * Diggins * Dillard * Dingeldein * Donnell * Donovan * Doran * Douglass * Dozier * Draper * Dritt * Drury * Dulin * Duncan * Durst * Eagleburger * Earnest * East * Eaton * Edmonson * Eisenmayer * Elson * Emerson * Emery * Ennis * Ernst * Eslinger * Evans * Everett * Fairbanks * Fallin * Farmer * Fawcett * Fay * Fellows * Fenton * Ferguson * Fielder * Finch * Fine * Fink * Finley * Finney * Fitch * Fogarty * Foster * Fowler * Frame * Freeman * French * Frey * Fricke * Fry * Fulbright * Furrow * Gallagher * Galloway * Gann * Gardner * Garton * George * Gideon * Gifford * Glass * Glassmoyer * Goodwin * Gorman * Gorsuch * Gosney * Granade * Grant * Gray * Green * Greenwade * Grier * Griffin * Groblebe * Grubel * Gustin * Hall * Halstead * Hammond * Hankins * Hannah * Hansell * Hanson * Harman * Harrison * Hart * Hartt * Hasler * Hasten * Haswell * Haun * Hawkins * Hayden * Haynes * Hayward * Headlee * Headley * Heckart * Heckenlively * Hedges * Hegarty * Henderson * Hendrickson * Henshaw * Herman * Herrick * Hiatt * Hibler * Hickman * Hilderbrand * Hinerman * Hobbs * Holden * Holland * Hood * Hooper * Hoover * House * Houston * Howard * Howell * Hubbell * Hudnall * Hummel * Hurd * Ingler * Jackson * James * Jaquith * Jared * Jenkins * Jennings * Jewell * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Kanning * Kauffman * Keller * Kelley * Kelly * Kemmling * Kennedy * Kerr * Kershner * King * Kinser * Kirby * Kirkey * Kirkpatrick * Kissick * Kite * Klingensmith * Klingner * Knabb * Knelle * Knighten * Knowles * Knox * Kohler * Kucker * LaBounty * LaFollette * Lane * Langsford * Langston * Lee * Leedy * Leeper * Lehr * Levy * Lincoln * Linney * Lloyd * Love * Lowe * Luper * MacElveny * Mack * Maddox * Magill * Major * Malley * Martin * Mason * Massey * Maxwell * McAfee * McCammon * McCarty * McClernon * McCluer * McCollum * McConnell * McCraw * McCroskey * McCutcheon * McDonald * McElhany * McGinty * McGuire * McHaffie * McIlvin * McIntire * McJimsey * McKay * McKee * McKerall * McLinn * McMaster * McMehen * McMillan * McMurtry * McNabb * McNeill * McQuiston * Mellon * Mercer * Meyer * Miller * Mills * Ming * Minto * Mitchell * Moomaw * Moon * Moore * Morckel * Morgan * Morice * Morton * Moser * Murphy * Murray * Nee * Nelson * Newbill * Newton * Nichols * Niederhuth * Noland * O'Bryant * O'Byrne * Olendorf * O'Neal * Ormsbee * Orr * Ott * Owen * Owens * Page * Patterson * Paxson * Peak * Perkins * Peterson * Phelps * Phillips * Pickering * Pierce * Pigg * Pike * Pipkin * Pollack * Porter * Potter * Powell * Preston * Price * Proserpi * Prugger * Pursselley * Putman * Quinn * Race * Ragsdale * Ramsey * Rathbone * Rathbun * Rauch * Raum * Raymond * Rebori * Redfearn * Reed * Reilly * Renshaw * Rhodes * Ricketts * Risser * Ritter * Robberson * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Roper * Rosback * Rose * Ross * Roudebush * Ruffin * Rule * Rullkoetter * Rupprecht * Russell * Salts * Sanders * Sanford * Sartain * Scharff * Schofield * Schreiber * Scott * Self * Shackelford * Sheedy * Shelton * Shepard * Sherman * Shumaker * Sidman * Sisk * Sjoberg * Skelley * Small * Smith * Snider * Southworth * Spandri * Spencer * Squibb * Stafford * Stahl * Staley * Stancill * Steinert * Stephens * Steury * Stewart * Stone * Stoughton * Studley * Stutzman * Tegarden * Terry * Thompson * Thurman * Tillman * Tracy * Trenary * Trevitt * Triece * Trogdon * Tucker * Turk * Turner * Underhill * Underwood * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Vestal * Vinton * Waddell * Wadlow * Walker * Wallis * Walsh * Washburn * Watson * Watts * Wear * Weaver * Westmoreland * Whalen * Whaley * White * Whitlock * Wilder * Wiley * Wilhoit * Wilkerson * Williams * Williamson * Willier * Wilson * Wingo * Winters * Wolf * Wood * Woodson * Woodward * Wooldridge * Wright * Wrightsman * Wygal * Yeakley * Young * Youngblood *

Section Six of six, ALL on one CD: Cemetery Location Maps of Greene County, Missouri showing the location of 75 different cemeteries in Greene County. 

These maps will help you find the location of 75 different cemeteries in Greene County, Missouri.  In addition, these maps show the location of numerous small settlements, churches, caves, and more. To see a list of the 75 cemeteries that are identified on these maps, click here: Greene County, Missouri Cemetery Location Maps

Greene County, Missouri is located in the Southwest portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Polk County, Missouri * Dallas County, Missouri * Webster County, Missouri * Christian County, Missouri * Lawrence County, Missouri * and Dade County, Missouri  (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

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