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Rosati, Joseph, 137
Rosecrans, General, 337
Rosenberg, L., 288 Rosenthal, Moses, 707 Ross, Alexander, 1170 Ross, A. M., 468 Ross, Steel, 165
Ross, Stephen, 155
Roth, Caspar, 480
Roth, Louis, 480
Rotrock, C. P., 545
Rowe, C. E., 280
Roy, Barbeau A., 652
Roy, Joachim, 65
Roy, Pierre, 53
Rozier, Charles, 415
Rozier, Charles C., 321, 422, 433
Rozier, Edward A., 817
Rozier, Ferdinand, 56, 60, 270, 402
Rozier, Firmin A., 115, 301, 320
Rozier, Francois C., 410
Rozier, Frederick, 413
Ruddell, George, 43, 107
Ruddell, John, 107
Rudy, J. F., 477 Ruebottom, Ezekiel, 167
Ruether, Fred J., 728 Ruggles, Martin, 169
Rui, 53 Runels, Will M., 1013
Rush's Ridge, 179
Russell, James, 78. 79
Russell, Joseph, 318
Russell, J. J., 288, 551
Russell, William, 78, 79
Ruth, Andrew F., 781 Rutledge, James A., 402
Rutter, John B., 290
Rutter, John P., 303
Ryan, Abram .J., 417
Ryan, Dawsey, 1115
Sabula, 378 Saes, 35, 40, 70. 150, 170 Sadd, Joseph M., 492 Sadler. Stephen H., 973 St. Aubin, Lewis, 107
St. Charles, 51, 140, 152 St. Charles District, 49 St. Francis Levee District, 314- St. Francisville, 333
St. Francois County, 177, 277, 302, 522 "St. Francois County Democrat,"' 540 "St. Francois County Republican,"' 541 St. Francois Mountains, x St. Francois River, xii, xiv St. Francois River, 42 St. Gem, Gustavns, 555 St. Gem, Jean Baptiste, 51, 52 St. Gem. J. B., 171
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St. Gem, Vital, 53
Ste. Genevieve, 21, 50, 56, 114, 137, 139, 140, 152, 176, 177, 182, 186, 190, 192, 193, 197, 254; shipping center of mineral region, 251; Ste. Genevieve- Iron Mountain Plank Road, 251; 150th anniversary celebrated, 252; U. S. Senators from Ste. Gene- vieve, 252; Ste. Genevieve of today, 254. Ste. Genevieve Academy, 193, 194, 257, 320, 401 Ste. Genevieve Asylum, 399 Ste. Genevieve Circuit, 454, 455
"Ste. Genevieve Correspondent and Record," 192 Ste. Genevieve County, 177, 523
Ste. Genevieve District, 49, 66, 125, 159; population, 53, 56; trade of, 54; military expedition, 55; so- cial life and amusement, 55; common field, 56; dates of settlement, 62; houses of French settlers, 119; food and cooking, 121; French Canadians, 121; houses of American settlers, 125; food of the Americans, 127.
Ste. Genevieve Evangelical Lutheran Church, 481 "Ste. Genevieve Herald,"' 542
St. John's Bayou, xiii
St. John's Bayou, 82, 229
St. James Bayou, xiii
St. James Bayou, 229
St. Joseph Lead Company, Bonne Terre, 506 St. Louis, 57, 114, 140, 152
St. Louis & Gulf Railroad, 502
St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway Company, 496
St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad, 259, 506
St. Louis & Missouri Southern Railroad, 507
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, 502 St. Louis & San Francisco System, 503
St. Louis, Kennett & Southeastern Railroad, 507
St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad, 504 St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company, 505 St. Mary, Augustus S., Jr., 879
St. Marys, 254
St. Mary's Academy, 193 "St. Mary's Progress,"' 542 "St. Mary's Review, " 542 St. Mary's Seminary, 412, 448
"St. Mary's Times, " 542
St. Michael's, 64, 126, 139, 201, 449
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ironton, 482
St. Philip River, 49
St. Vincent's Church, 448
St. Vincent's College, 413 St. Vincent's College (views), 414 Saline Creek, xii
Saline Creek, 18, 65, 177
Sand Blows, 222
Sandlin, Jonathan R., 311
Sandlin, Martin, 179 Sandy Creek, 193 Sanford, Daniel, 295
Sans Oreille, 39 Satterfield, W. M., 308 Saucier, F., 150 Saukees, 40 Sayres, William, 311 Scene at the Shut-in near Arcadia (view ), xi Scene on Black River near Poplar Bluff (view), 294 Schaaf, John F., 254 Schadt, Otto, 345 Schaper, Jesse H., 903 Schell, Casper, 178 Schiller Verein, 431 Schleich, L. C., 423
Schmitz, Ferdinand, 342
Schneider, Charles W., 829 Schonhoff, C. A., 1229
Schonhoff, J. H., 1247 Schools ( see Education)
Schrader, Anthony, 480 Schramm, Emil C., 684 Schrum, Eugene G., 1189
Schult, Hina C., 314
Schult, H. C., 956 Schult, W. D., 314
Schulte, Frank, 678 Schultz, Thomas W., 634
Schultze, Andrew T., 578
Schulz, Gustav B., 665
Schwartz, John, 342 Scoggin, George W., 809
Scott, Andrew, 154, 402
Scott, Jonathan, 315
Scott, John, 153, 155, 237, 238, 242, 307, 313
Scott, J. B., 410
Scott, John G., 323
Scott, Thomas, 311
Scott, Thomas B., 148
Scott County, 108, 156, 179, 290, 303, 342, 524 Scott County Hills, xii
"Scott County Agricultural Wheel, "' 542
"Scott County Banner,'' 543
"Scott Connty Democrat," 543
"Scott County Kicker, " 542
"Scott County Newsboy," 543
Scripps, George H., 262 Scripps, John, 205
Scrips, (Mrs.) John, 402
Seabaugh, A. Frank, 1254
Seabaugh, Oda L., 779
Seavers, David, 74
Seavers, Nicholas, 77
Seawell, Joseph, 261, 401
Second Missouri Cavalry, 352
Second Missouri Infantry, 344, 351
Second Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, 347
Seelitz Evangelical Lutheran Church, 479
Segal, Louis, 1064
Seindre, John, 65
Sellers, Benjamin, 282
Selma, 275 Senath, 376
"Senath Leader, "' 534
"Senath Star," 534
Seneca Slough, 42
Sergeant, Ichabod, 411
Settle, V. T., 477
Settle, W. W., 476, 477
Seventy-ninth Missouri Regiment, 344
Sewell, Joseph, 154, 155
Sexton, J. W., 643
Sexton, Lafayette, 307
Shady Grove Baptist Church, 473
Shafer, Sophia, 65
Shaner, Henry, 295
Shannon, William. 155
Sharp, E. F., 1278
Sharp, James J., 946
Sharp, Thomas B., 699
Shaw, John, 172, 228
Shaw, Thomas M., 290 Shawnee Hills, ix Shawnees, 40, 41, 170
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Shearer, J. G., 478 Sheehy, John T., 1060 Shelby, Jo, 335, 337 Shelby, Reuben, 270, 402 Shell, Benjamin, 162 Shelton, Enoch, 308 Shelton, Lee, 562 Shelton, William H., 308 Shelton, W. F., 823 Shelton, W. F., Jr., 824 Shepherd Mountain, xi Sheppard, Isaac, 199 Sheppard, Jesse C., 1282 Sheppard, John, 162 Sheppard, William, 262 Sherrill, L., 277 Shields, Charles W., 926 Shields, S. A., 808 Shipley, Hugh, 307 Shivers, J. A., 965 Short, John, 178 Shot Tower, 65 Shrader, John, 153 Shreve, Israel, 84 Shultz, Thomas J., 853 Shurlds, Henry, 169 Siege of New Madrid (1862), 265 Sigler, Charles L., 1220 Sikes, John, 291 Sikeston, 108, 291, 525 "Sikeston Herald,"' 542 Sikeston M. E. Church, 460 Sikeston Presbyterian Church, 491 Sikeston Ridge, xiii "Sikeston Standard, " 542 "Sikeston Star, "' 542 Simply a Big Oil Tank (view), 518 Simpson, A. E., 288 Simpson, A. P., 1052 Simpson, Doda B., 1052 Simpson, Jeremiah, 77 Simpson. Samuel P., 343 Sink Hole, 172 Sinks, 222 Siouan, 34 Sioux, 170 Sixth Missouri Cavalry, 346 Sixty-fourth Missouri Regiment, 343 Sixty-eighth Missouri Regiment, 344 Sixth Regiment (Spanish-American War), 370 Skaggs, Dick, 307 Skaggs, Dr., 286 Skaats, Lillie E., 426 Slinkard, Frederick, 80 Slinkard. J. V., 873 Sloan, Albert D., 370 Sloan, H. L., 256, 262 Sloan, William, 169 Smart, John C., 349 Smelting of Lead, 363 Smith & Love, 297 Smith, Ashael, 265 Smith, Harry A., 539 Smith, Henry H., 154 Smith, H. M., 478 Smith, James, 288 Smith, James W., 160, 302 Smith, John, 350 Smith, John T., 169
Smith, Joseph, 290, 303 Smith, J. S., 290 Smith, Melbourne, 746 Smith, Owen A., 835 Smith, Reuben, 313 Smith, S. Henry, 535 Smith, Tilman, 80 Smith, T. John, 60, 190
Smith T .- Browne duel, 190
Smith, William, 199
Smyth, James A., 308 Smyth, R. Lee, 1096
Snider, Frank MI., 954
Snider, G. B., 667 Snider, Jacob, 307 Snider, John A., 1143 Snider, Oliver E., 313 Snoddy, John, 293
Social Life-Population of Louisiana in 1804, 117; Ste. Genevieve district, 118, 119, 121; American settlers, 119; houses of French settlers, 119; In- cians, 119; food and cooking, 121; French Cana- dians, 121; dress of the French, 122; amusements, 122; personal property, 124; wealth (personal property), 124; trade, 124; fur trade of Upper Louisiana, 124; American immigration, 125; houses of American settlers, 125; clothing, 127; food of the Americans, 127; general conditions, 439; houses, 440; food, 440; dress, 440; house- hold implements, 441; amusements, 441; physi- cians, 442. Son, Thomas A., 752 Sorosis Society, 430
Soulard, Antonio, 65 Southeast District Agricultural Society, 257
"Southeast Gazette," 530
"'Southeast Missourian, "' 532, 537 "Southeast Missouri Enterprise, '' 534 Southeast Missouri Teachers' Association, 409 "Southeast Missouri Statesman, "' 538
"South Missouri, "' 530 South Missouri Guards, 301 "Southern Advocate and State Journal, " 529 "Southern Democrat, " 529 Southern Judicial (territorial) Circuit, 154 Southern Mississippi Steamer (view), 365 "Southern Missouri Argus, " 540 "Southern Pemiseot News, " 538 "'Southern Scimetar, " 538 Southern, William A., 720 Spanish-American War, 370 Spanish Government over Louisiana-Merchants, 130; prices, 130; products, 130; travel, 131; religion, 133.
Sparks, Daniel, 164
Spear, Edward, 171, 199
Speer, Asier J., 1189
Spence, James M., 293
Spence, J. M., 403
Spence, William A., 1152
Spence, W. W., 493 Spencer, Edward, 307, 310
Spencer, H., 307 Spencer, Urban C., 402 Spencer, Wade H., 282 Spiggott, Joseph, 206 Spiller, Elbert C., 284 Spiller, S. W., 374 Sprigg Street, 329
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Sugg, H. A., 856
Summers, Andrew, 79 Summers, John, 105 Summers, John C., 948 Sumpter, Bert, 818 "Sunnyside, " 541 Surrell, William, 195, 262 Sutherland, George W., 1049 Swan, Clarence M., 729
Swashing Baptist Church, 476 Swearingen, William A., 963 Sweazea, Thomas J., 685 Swinger, Jacob M., 1178 Syenite Granite Company, 820 Syenite Presbyterian Church, 491
Tarkington, William W., 974 Tallmadge Amendment, 237
Tanner, Rucker, 206
Tanot, Pierre, 65
Tarlton, George W., 699
Tate, C. J., 468
Tatum Brothers, 285
Tatumı, James F., 657
Tatum, Luther F., 933
Tatumı, Luther P., 562
Tatum, Ira B., 934
Tatum, Richard M., 658
Taverns, 191
Tawney, John, 1101
Taylor, (Captain), 349
Taylor, Edward O., 1032
Taylor, John P., 308
Taylor, Lee, 349
Taylor, Lee J., 1000
Taylor, Luther, 270
Taylor, M. W., 476
Taylor Slough, xiv Taylor Slough, 231, 307
Taylor, T., 400
Taylor, William R., 1097
Taylor, William T., 980
Tecumseh, 42
Templeton, James D., 938
Templeton, Willianı A., 943
Tennille, Benjamin, 162
Tenney, David, 208
Tenth Missouri Cavalry, 346
Territorial Government of Louisiana-Governor and general assembly, 152; courts, 158
Territorial House, 152
Terry, Philip S., 1025
Test Oath, 417
Tetweiler, S. G., 536
Thebes, 260
Theel, Levi, 65 Theilmann, Louis, 915
Thiele, Frederick, 858
Thilenius, Edward, 797
Thilenius, E. M., 902
Thilenius, G. C., 343, 501
Third Missouri Regiment, 343
Thirtieth Missouri Infantry, 345
Thirty-ninth Regiment, Missouri Enrolled Militia, 348 Thomas, Jesse B., 237
Thomas, John C., 288, 498
Thomas, John L., 867
Thomas, Judge, 170 Thomas, Richard S., 153, 154, 155, 238, 242, 300
Stacy, William L., 1047 Stady, William C., 568 Stalleup, James A., 1208 Stalleup, Lynn M., 1207 Stalleup, Mark H., 291, 1206 Stanberry, Henry, 243 Stancil, Martin L., 313 "Standard, " 531 Stanfill, J. H., 371 Stanley, Rufus H., 937 Stanton, John, 169 Starett, William S., 957 Starved Rock, 30, 31
Statehood-Memorial for, 234; Missouri Compromise, 237, 240; solemn public act, 239; state bounda- ries, 242.
State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, 259, 367, 409; established, 420; courses of study, 428; lit- erary societies, 430; the Young Men's Christian Association, 431; library, 431; enrollment, 432; faculty, 432; board of regents, 433; former presi- dents, 434; place of the normal school, 436.
State Normal School, Cape Girardeau (view), 421
Statler, Conrad, 79
Statler, Peter, 79 Stear, Jacob, 290
Steek, Emil, 1236
Steele, 382 Stein, Louis, 652
Steinback, B., 74, 97
Steinback, F., 74, 97
Stephens, John W., 932
Stephens, L. L., 473
Stephens, Thomas, 202
Stevens, John, 313
Stevenson, Jobn, 311
Stevenson, J. Henry, 763
Stevenson, William J., 341
Stevenson, William T., 879
Steward, Ambrose S., 1292
Steward, James, 65
Stewart, Robert, 313
Stewart, Thomas, 262, 401
Stierberger, Edward A., 642
Stiver, Christian E., 629
Stoddard, Amos, 142, 143, 304
Stoddard County, 180, 295, 304, 525
Stoddard County Baptist Association, 478 "Stoddard County Republican, " 543 Stokes, Amzi L., 1023 Stokes, Charles E., 543 Stokes, John E., 963
Stokes, Robert W., 992
Stokes, R. W., 286, 308
Stokes, T. C., 286
Stokes, William C., 881
Stone, John H., 317
Storey, O. H., 639 Story, Joseph, 105, 107, 165
Stout, Ephraim, 80, 178
Stont, Thankful, 79 Strange, Tubal E., 192
Strange, T. E., 262, 529 Street, William, 167, 203 Stricklin, John W., 1210 Strother, Benjamin, 159 Stumpe, Frederick W., 681 . Sturdivant, Robert, 256, 318 Subscription Schools, 398
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Thomasson, Bettie G., 1075 Thomasson, J. W., 1074 Thompson, A., 307 Thompson, Benjamin, 410 Thompson, Benjamin F., 792 Thompson, General, 330, 331 Thompson, James, 171 Thompson, John, 171 Thompson, Samuel H., 206 Thompson, Samuel T., 1152 Thompson's Fort, 335
Thompson, Sullivan S., 1039 Thompson, Wilson, 202 Thomure, Jean Baptiste, 52 Thornberry, Ephraim, 307 Thorne, Solomon, 74 Thrower, A. C., 1222 Tidwell, A., 477 Tidwell, A. G., 476 Tiedeman, D. F., 410 Timber, xv Timber, 360 Timberman, J. W., 673 Timberman, John, 286 Timberman, John H., 1273 "Times," 540 Timon, John, 413, 448 Tindle, Albert, 1037 Tinnin, Edwin L., 828 Tinnin, Robert H., 790 Tipton, Samuel, 77 Tolds, James, 403 Tolle, B. A., 1065 Tolleson, Thomas R., 850 Toole, Thomas J., 1093 Toney, Henry, 402 Tong & Carson, 297 Tong, H. F., 477 Tong, Theodore F., 267, 316 Tonti, 29 Topping, Moses H., 614 Toriman, 35 Totty, Ulysses G., 1291 Tower, Rush, 275 Towl, Benjamin F., 838 Townships, 159, 163, 304 Trade, 27, 33, 124, 130, 140, 186, 445
Transfer to the United States-Louisiana Purchase. 139; trade, 140; land grants, 148 Transportation, 187, 364 Travis, John, 204 Traylor, George H., 1033 Treece, George W., 958 Tresenwriter, C. D., 531 Tribble, Pearl D., 1085 Tribble, Thomas E., 1083 "Tribune, " 536 "Tri-City Independent,'' 535 Trogdon, J. R., 1204 Tromley, L. F., 532 Trotter, David, 44, 115 Trudeau, Zenon, 79 Tual, Charles J., 861 Tueker, Father, 451 Tucker, John, 164 Tueker, Joseph, 170, 270 Tucker, Marion F., 832 Tucker, Nathaniel B., 302 Tucker, Rufus C., 774
Tucker, William L., 566
Turley, John G., 1025 Turley, Lee, 762 Turnbaugh, J. J., 262 Turnbaugh, T. Ben, 1081 Turnbaugh, Thomas B., 1080 Turner, B. F., 403
Turner, Samuel E., 342
Tuttel, Joseph, 1151 Twenty-third Regiment, Missouri Enrolled Militia, 348
Twenty-ninth Missouri Infantry, 344 Tyler, Thomas, 65
Typical Stone Quarries (views), 515
Tywappity Bottoms, 81, 179
Ull. Casper, 343 Union American Lead Company, 26S
Union Literary Society, 430 United Daughters of the Confederacy, 369 Unity Masonie Lodge, 157
Upper Louisiana, 49
Ursuline Sisters, 420
Vail, John W., 1137 Valle Family, 269 Valle. Charles, 114
Valle, Felix, 410
Valle, Francisco, 52, 115, 159
Valle, Francisco, Jr., 115
Valle, Jean Baptiste, 52 Van Amburg, James H., 410
Van Buren, 180, 372 Vance, Robert L., 723
Vandenbenden, Joseph, 105
Vandenbenden, Louis, 97, 105
Van Denbenden, Lewis, 107
Vandiver, Willard D., 426, 427, 435
Vandover, William, 293
Vanduser, 389 VanFrank, P. R., 342
VanGilder. J. W., 1133
Van Guard Literary Society, 430
Vanhorn, Nathan, 163, 262
Van Lluytelaar, John, 449
Vardell, B. N., 822 Vardell, Drew, 875
Vasquez, Benito, 65
Vessells, Francis M., 805 Victoria, 378
Views-Capaha Bluffs, Rock Levee Drive. Cape Gi- rardean, viii; elephant rocks, Graniteville, x; scene at the Shut-in near Arcadia, xi; In- (lian mound, 4; Marquette among the Mis- sissippi Valley Indians, 25; first brick house built west of the Mississippi, 50; old-time windlass, 119; home of our fathers, 126; happy Missouri corn grower, 181; oldest house in Cape Girardeau, 258; Missouri State Hospital from superintend- ent's residence, 279; high school, Farmington, 279; Will Mayfield College, Marble Hill, 281; Poplar Bluff High School and scene on Black River near Poplar Bluff, 294; highest point ( 11 Pilot Knob, Areadia Heights. 298; south- ern Mississippi river steamer. 365; State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, 421; in the thick timber, 511; typieal stone quarries, 515; corn measured by horses, 517; simply a big oil tank, 518; Mis- souri orchards in bearing, 519.
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Watkins, James H., 987
Watkins, Joseph, 80 Watkins, Martha E., 988 Watkins, Nathaniel W., 156
Watkins, N. M., 263 Watkins, N. W., 257, 316, 328
Watkins, W., 349 Wathen, I. R., 256 Wathen, Ignatius R .. 290
Watrin, P. M., 56
Watson, Jason, 263
Watson, Robert Goah. 97, 265, 402
Watson, W. S., 257
Watts, H. S., 461
Watts, Napoleon B., 639
Waide, Robert, 288
Wayne County, 80, 167, 176. 178, 203, 272, 527
Wayne County Baptist Association, 479
Weber, Carl, 1221
Weber, Charles A .. 343
Walker, Cyrus,, 263
Walker, George W .. 679
Walker, Irwin K., 342
Walker, James A., 349
Walker. James P., 556
Walker, Jesse, 204, 205, 461
Walker, J. H., 233, 282
Walker, John B., 307
Walker, John Hardeman, 107, 178, 242, 315
Walker, Thomas B., 343
Walker, Thomas M., 928
Walker, William S. C., 629
Wallace, John W., 968
Wallace, Newton, 312
Waller's Ferry, 163
Wallis, J. P., 476
Walls, Robert D., 714
Walser, David F., 1202
Walsh, M. C., 450
Walters, Jacob, 155
Walther, C. F., 271
Walther, Carl F. W., 480
Waltrip. I. A., 308
Waltrip, J. M .. 308
Ward, E. D., 274
Ward, H. M., 498 Ward, M., 288
Ward, Robert L., 945
Ward, Samuel J., 348
White, E. C., 308
White, G. M., 308
White, James B., 351
White, Josiah M., 745
White, J. W., 884
White, William, 74
Whiteaker, Robert A., 924
Whiteaker, William C., 1071
Whitehead, Samuel W., 1196
Whitehead, Thomas L., 1119 Whitelaw, James M., 319
Whitelaw. Robert H., 549, 704
Whitener, David A., 739
Whitener, Henry, 267, 371
Whitener, J. Q. A., 371
Whiteoak, 377 White Oak Grove Baptist Church, 478
Whiteside, Jacob, 206
Whitewater, 373, 492 Whitewater Creek, xii
Whitewater River, xiii
" Whitewater Times, " 531
Vincennes, 51 "Vindicator," 543, 545 Vire, F. A., 539 Vitt, Alfred A., 632 Vossbrink, Henry C., 653 Voyageur, 24
Wabash River, 49
Wade, David, 74 Wade, Robert C., 971
Wade, Robert L., 908 Wagner, John F., 648
Wagner, L. M., 481
Wagster, Nofflit J., Sr., 815 Wahl, James S., 908
Walker, Alexander S., 154
Walker, C. A., 705
Walker, Charles N., 537
Weber, Emil M., 1220
Webb, George B., 986
Webb, W. J., 1222
Webster Literary Society, 430
"' Weekly Journal, "' 545
Weiberg (Whybark), Samuel, 80
Weigel, E. F., 422
Weiriek, Upton L., 709
Weiss, Henry F., 769
Welker, Leonard, 80
Welker, Wilbur M., 587
Wellborn, James, 290
Welling, Charles, 262, 263, 318
Wells, Francis M., 624
Wenom, Gustavus A., 866
Wernert, L. C., 842
West, Henry T., 581
West, John, 287 " Western Eagle, 530
"Westliche Post," 530
Whaley, Nathaniel C., 999
Wheeler, Doctor, 402
Wheeler, David, 402
Whitcomb, George, 287, 498
Whitcomb, G. W., 288
White, Cornelius C., 1074
White, Edmund, 295
White, Elbert C., 532
Ward, W. J., 844
Ware, Hardy, 65 Warren, Humphrey, 287
Warren, Martin S., 892
Warrington & Pennell, 265, 282
Warner, Charles G., 505
Warner. John E., 1262
Warren, Robert L., 1015 Washington County, 153, 168, 176, 179, 269, 526
Washington County Baptist Association, 478
Washington County Battalion, 342
Washington County, first settlement in, 64 "Washington County Gazette, " 545 "Washington County Journal," 544 " Washington County Miner," 544 Washington Female Seminary, 402 Waters, Richard Jones, 97, 115, 150, 164, 265, 402 Waters, Thomas W., 179 Waters, W. W., 537 Watervalley Presbyterian Church, 491 Watkins, Griffin, 717
Whittaker, M. J., 473, 474 Whitten, William H., 1083 Whitworth, Isaac G., 851 Whybark, Levi C., 343 Whybark, Levi E., 493 Whybark, John C., 313 Whybark, Samuel, 492 Wichterich, Robert F., 689 Wiggins, Levy, 66 Wiggs, Franklin A., 638 Wilcox, Edward, 204 Wilkinson, James, 142, 143 Wilkerson, Jocl, 349 Wilkes, William C., 349, 872 Wilkins, Fabium M., 962 Wilkinson, James, 88 Wilkson, Charles P., 765 Willett, J. O., 468 Williams, A. B., 307 Williams, C. S., 799 Williams, Elisha G., 1125 Williams, George, 291 Williams, George B., 849 Williams, George K., 647
Williams, George W., 849 Williams, James, 469, 475 Williams, Justin, 403 Williams, J. J., 314 Williams, Lee, 1227 Williams, Lewis, 45 Williams, Luther H., 703
Williams, Matthew J., 1225
Williams, Philbert R., 731 Williams, Thomas, 291 Williams, William, 204 Williamson, James, 307 Williamsville, 393 "Williamsville Iron News, " 546 Williford, Charles, 349 Willis, Riley, 1229 Will Mayfield College, 418 Will Mayfield College, Marble Hill, 479, 572
Will Mayfield College. Marble Hill (view), 281 Wills, Ernest S., 1138 Wilson, Andrew, 105 Wilson, A. W., 419 Wilson, Ben, 1111 Wilson, Charles D., 1092 Wilson, Eli, 1237 Wilson, Ellen, 425 Wilson, George, 164 Wilson, H. G., 409 Wilson, John O., 1289 Wilson, Michael A., 296, 403 Wilson, Mattie G., 1239 Wilson, Nicholas, 154 Wilson, Parrish G., 1110 Wilson, Thomas G., 753 Wilson, T. M., 410 Wilson, Ward, 370 Wilson, William B., 550 Winchester, 291
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Winchester, Abraham, 291 Winchester, Henderson, 291 Windsor, Elisha, 164 Windsor, Thomas, 164 Winn, Lulu May, 419
Winningham, S., 469
Winston, P. S., 988 Winter, H. F., 480
Wisecarver, John, 312
Wisecarver, Nathan, 312
Witchcraft, 43
Witt, Christian, 65
Wittenberg, 383
Wittenberg Evangelical Lutheran Church, 479
Wofford, Moses, 921
Wolf Island, 243
Wolff, Joseph S., 621
Wolverton, Levy, 74
Wood, Fred C., 714
Wood, S. N., 346
Wood's Battalions, State Gnards, 349
Woodward, John, 266, 267, 402
Workman, Elmer S., 1086
Workman, Henry A., 1270
Worsham, J. V., 487
Worth, Charles, 1296
Worthington, Robert, 74
Wright, Campbell, 284 Wright, C., 346
Wright, Edward A., 1043
Wright, E. A., 537
Wright, (Mrs.) Ellen, 257
Wright, John, 308
Wright, J. L., 975
Wright, Thomas, 204, 205, 206, 207
Wright, Will D., 545
Wulfert, Albert, 869
Yankeetown, 254 Yarber, John N., 293 Yesberg, John H., 1081 Yorke Chapel, 452
Young, Charles A., SS2
Young, David, 205 Young, David B., 1258
Young, John A., 1227
Young, J. R., 1236
Young, L. Willis, 1048
Young, Robert C., 936
Zalma, 371 Zenonian Literary Society, 430 Zimmermau, Aaron R., 927 Zimmerman, Daniel C., 767 Zimmerman, John H., 1027 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gravelton, 481 Zoellner Brothers, The, 1022
Zoellner, Adolph H., 1022 Zoellner, August B., 1023 Zoellner, Frank H., 1023 Zoellner & Zoellner, 539
SECTION I
Archaeology-De Soto-French Explorers-Indians
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tures of the topography of this section for they exist by thousands. Few people have any idea as to the vast numbers of mounds. There are single counties which have within their borders more than three thousand mounds. This is true of Bollinger county and of Scott county. Our knowledge of the vast numbers of mounds has been rendered exact in recent years by the work of Hon. Louis Houck. In the preparation of his "History of Missouri" he had the mounds of the state counted. Even this enumeration, carefully
formed the basis of more widely divergent views. An entire theory of the early history of this country has been built up around them. They have been regarded, at times, as the evidence of the existence of a mighty and civilized race of people who existed here be- fore the coming of the Indians; and who, for some unknown reason, perished completely from the land before the discovery by Colum- bus. A great empire with organized govern- ment, with a mighty capital, with swarming millions of population, has been pictured as
INDIAN MOUND
made as it was, does not give all the mounds. He found, however, within the bounds of Southeast Missouri, as defined in this book, more than eighteen thousand mounds, and it is doubtless safe to say that were all of them known we should find the number to exceed twenty thousand. Such vast figures are over- whelming when we consider what an enormous amount of work is represented by them.
These mounds have formed a fruitful sub- ject of controversy. Few subjects connected with history have evoked more discussions or
the condition of the people who built them. On the other hand other views have been ad- vanced concerning them. An examination of some of the principal facts and theories con- cerning these prehistorie remains cannot fail to be of interest to all those who have a re- gard for the past.
In the first place, it is to be said, that these mounds are to be found in every county in this district. There seems to have been no part of Southeast Missouri where the people who constructed mounds did not live and work. It is true that they are more abundant
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in some parts of the section than in others. It is pointed out by Houck, that they are most abundant on a line extending southwest along the border of the lowlands from Cape Girar- dean to Arkansas. Along this line they exist in great numbers. They are found also in large numbers in all the lowland region bor- dering the Mississippi. Another fact that concerns their distribution is that they were often constructed on the bank of creek or river.
Many of them are found, it is true, away from bodies of water, and yet so many of them are found in relation to water that we are justified in concluding that proximity to some body of water helped often to determine the location of the mounds.
Another fact of interest in connection with them is that they vary greatly in size. Some of them are very large. One which stands about two miles south of the present site of New Madrid is nearly circular in form, hav- ing a diameter of about two hundred feet and is probably thirty feet high. It is surrounded by many smaller mounds. The largest mound in the section, if not in the state, is in Pemi- scot county. It is four hundred feet long, two hundred and fifty feet wide and thirty- five feet high. It has an approach from the south leading up to the top. It is higher at the north end than at the south by fifteen feet. There are many other large mounds in the same vicinity, some of them being more than two hundred feet in length. One of them is six hundred feet long and two hun- dred feet wide but only eight feet high. From these large mounds they vary in size to the very small ones only a few feet in length and in some cases only a few inches high.
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