Book Description

By: Western Historical Company, Pub. 1883, Reprinted 2018, 1010 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-715-7. Located in the western portion of the Ozark region of the state, Greene County was created in 1833 from Crawford and Wayne Counties. Even though Missouri didn't become an official state until 1821, settlers began showing up in the western side around this time. Many of whom were from the Southern states such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. This book is a complete detailed history of the state, the county along the various towns of the time. Numerious individuals are mentioned with clues to their previous residents being discussed through out these various history sections. But the reader will delight in the biographical sketches of some 523 individuals of the county and genealogical data on some 2,000 other families / individuals. These persons were not only from VA, TN, NC, & KY but also had large numbers of settlers from OH, PA, IN, IL, & MO along with lesser quanties from the states of DE, GA, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, VT, WI, & WV. The NEW INDEX for this reprint mentions over 3,000 entries.