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Headquartered in Bolivar, Missouri, United States of America

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"Lorraine P. Kincaid Collection"

 

AGI-01-09 Lorraine P. Kincaid Collection 3B-3-8
This collection consisted of several notebooks that contained research supplies such as genealogy stationary, forms for recording census research and general information about census records. These supplies were pulled from the collection and added to the library’s supplies. Also included were several books (unbound and put in notebooks) of which the library already had at least two copies. These books were put out for members. Ten county General Highway Maps were placed in the library’s map collection. The remaining items are stored together.
 

Folder/Item

 Contents

1

 Photocopies of Bolivar Newspapers

An index had been started but only the first seven pages were completed as follows

Page 1: Mrs. T. S. Wilhite (Louisa J.),a Mary Ann Barrett Bateman, Mary Jane Taylor

Page 2: Sterling Brown, William Owens, Jackson P. Ashlock, William C. Campbell, Iredell McKain, James McCracken

Page 3: Jesse Mitchell, William H. Baker

Page 4: Edward Johnson, Thomas Henson, Wm. Blankenship, Wm. Franklin, Samuel Cox, Eli Vanderford, A. T. Casey, Robert H. Brown, Frances Slagle, Hiram Gilley, William Jamison, Sarah & Joseph Caldwell (divorce), Darling Smith

Page 5: Cornelia Acord, John B. Ingram

Page 6: Thomas Henson, Robert H. Brown, John Wright, Moses Keith, William Blankenship, William Franklin, Samuel Cox, Eli Vanderford, Hiram Gilley, Sarah & Joseph Caldwell (divorce)

Page 7: Robert H. Brown, Sarah Wright, Keith Mo_ce, John Wright, William Blankenship, William Franklin, Samuel Cox, Eli Vanderford, A. T. Casey, William Jamison, Caldwell’s divorce, Darling Smith

There are 17 pages from Bolivar Weekly Courier, mainly settlement notices in 1856

12 pages from the Bolivar Free Press 1928 and 22 pages from The Bolivar Herald 1903

2
  1. Pages 531-541 The Heritage of Missouri by Duane G. Meyer Section on Spanish American War (7 pages)
  2. Pages 32-34 The Ozarks Mountaineer Feb. 1993 article "Sermons in Stone" by Abigail A. Burnett
  3. 1970 Southwest Missouri Census Map
  4. Polk County Courthouses Encyclopedia of Missouri Courthouses 2 pages
  5. Newspaper clipping "Ozarks home to Osage tribe in early 1700s" by Michal Dale—no date/source
  6. Newspaper clipping "Home full of heritage" Springfield News Leader 20 June 1992
  7. Six photographs taken in Bolivar
  8. Pages 278-280 The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri biography of John E. McKeighan (6 pages)

3

 "Turning back time by 50 years WWII comes to an end"

Bolivar Herald-Free Press Special Section August 1995

4
  1. "Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets, Past and Present of Green County, Missouri" compiled by Arthur Paul Moser from Ozar’kin’ Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2 Abbott to Fruitland and Goodlander to Nogo (12 pages)
  2. "Historical Look at Bolivar and Polk County" by John Polk Campbell copied from Bolivar Herald-Free Press 27 June 1968 (4 pages)
  3. "Turkey Creek Baptist Church" contributed to Ozar’kin’ by Frances Daniel
  4. "Polk County History" no source listed

5

 Handwritten, alphabetized listing of Polk County Deaths; cover page states "beginning Sept. 21, 1882". There are 90 pages with deaths occurring between 1980 and 1995

6

 Obituaries of
  1. Prewitt Carlisle Evans Mitchell
  2. Katherine Keet McElhany
  3. Marion Bissett Hoblit
  4. Newspaper articles
  5. Article on death of 7 year old doughtier of Jas. Pratt 1879
  6. "FHA cemetery project subject for historical society meeting" no date
  7. "Family tradition binds generations" Nick and Kenny Becker
  8. 1990, 1991, 1993 deaths listed in Bolivar Herald-Free Press

7

 Maps
  1. Outline map of Connecticut with reproduction of 1853 Connecticut map on back (2)
  2. Indian Tribes and Linguistic Stocks 1650
  3. The Building of Ohio—18 land grants
  4. Ozarks geographic boundaries
  5. Lancaster County, PA 1st Settlement Map 1710
  6. Pequea Colony—earliest settlement in Lancaster County
  7. United States in 1783
  8. Traditional British Home Counties
  9. Maps and Migration Trails publisher unknown

Ten General Highway Maps from this collection can be found in the Map Box. The following counties were included: Barton, Cedar, Dunklin, Henry, Lafayette, Mississippi, Pemiscot, Platte, Ray and Reynolds counties in Missouri.

8

 Karlin Cemetery mapped by James O. Otradovec 1975

Index map of Polk County (no date)

 

 

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