Cedar County, Missouri: Biographies, History, and Historical Maps

159 pages including 92 biographies plus 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Cedar County, Missouri including three separate books on CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929); plus the full 1889 Goodspeed's "History of Cedar County, Missouri" book.

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

Book One on CD: Maps of Cedar County, Missouri
Included here are the South Western Ozarks region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Cedar County just six years after the county was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Cedar County showing the locations of 14 different settlements including all of the following: Arnica * Balm * Bearcreek * Canehill * Caplinger Mills * El Dorado Springs * Filley * Jerico * Kader * Lebeck * Omer * Pleasantview * Stockton * Wagoner *

C. A map of 1904 Cedar County showing the locations of 29 different settlements including all of the following: Akard * Arnica * Balm * Bearcreek * Canehill * Caplinger Mills * Claud * Edsall * Eldorado Springs * Filley * Forestgrove * Hartley * Ivy * Jerico * Kader * Lebeck * Leila * Masters * Mollie * Olympia * Omer * Osiris * Pleasantview * Rowland * Sexson * Stockton * Tingley * Umber * Wagoner

D. A map of 1913 Cedar County showing the locations of 25 different settlements including all of the following (this map also shows numerous school, church and cemetery locations): Arnica * Balm * Bear Creek * Cane Hill * Caplingers Mills * Cedar Springs * Clintonville * Edsall * Eldorado Springs * Filley * Graceland * Hartley * Ivy * Jerico Springs * Kader * Lebeck * Leila * Masters * Owens Mills * Paynterville * Pleasant View * Sackville * Stockton * Virgil City * Wagoner *

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!

Book Two on CD: Cedar County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Cedar County from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information!

Book Three on CD: The complete 1889 "History of Cedar County, Missouri".
This detailed (159 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Cedar County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica on CD of all the pages pertaining to Cedar County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 92 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Boundary and Geological Character
• Natural Features, Streams
• Mineral Springs
• Resources and Statistics
• Population
• Settlement and Early Affairs
• Early Experiences
• First Birth, Death, & Marriage
• Land Entries (30 pages of names!)
• Organization of County & Townships
• Municipal Townships
• Court Affairs
• General County Interests
• Poor Farm
• Railroad Surveys
• Towns and Villages: Stockton * Jerico Springs * El Dorado Springs * West El Dorado * Clintonville * Caplinger's Mills (Sacville) * Lebeck * Virgil City * Fincastle (Arnica) * Paynterville (Bear Creek) * Balm (Cedar Springs) * Sundry Villages *
• Military History (The Civil War)
• Livingston & Shelby Raids
• First and Early Schools
• Church Matters
• Early Preachers

Included is a total of 92 biographies including each of the following surnames:
(hundreds of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Allen * Banister * Barter * Billingsley * Blake * Brasher * Brown * Carter * Church * Cline * Cox * Crawford * Cross * Dawson * Dixon * Dobyns * Dutton * Edge * Firestone * Fritts * Graham * Griffith * Grimes * Gunier * Hamlett * Hartley * Higgins * Horn * Hudson * Hurt * Jackson * Kerr * Leedy * Legg * Light * Lindley * Liston * Loy * Lyon * McFarland * Mace * Marquis * Martin * Mitchell * Montgomery * Moore * Nance * Noffsinger * Paynter * Peters * Phipps * Preston * Prouty * Prowell * Pyle * Rountree * Ryan * Sherrill * Simpson * Simrell * Smith * Stark * Stearns * Thompson * Vassar * Walker * Ward * Wasson * Willett * Williams * Wooldridge * Younger *

Cedar County is located in the Southwestern portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Vernon County * St. Clair County * Polk County * Dade County * and Barton County .

Each of the three books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books on this CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium I or higher computer with a CD drive.

The cost for this CD containing all three books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Cedar County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.