Thanks Kirby, I need all the help I can get. It will probably be spring before I have enough time to get into St. Louis to do any digging. It's hard enough to find time to get on campus or down to Jeff City. I spent all last year going through the local county history books for a five or six county regional area, making notes in the margins and trying to track down the documentation. If you want the real story on someone in a particular county you typically won't find it in that county's history, but, you will find bits and pieces in the histories of all the adjoining counties. Some of the older books are getting hard to find.
Jim morris