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- 1 NAME Mary Ann /Fortney/
2 SOUR S005716
3 PAGE 15
2 SOUR S005956
3 DATA
4 TEXT Date of Import: 27 Mar 2006
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Except for my own family lines, this data base contains less than 1/2 of the data that we plan to enter. Sometimes a specific set of data has been only partly entered. We have added the marriages from the main set of registers from 1872 through 1880 from the index; as in the case of Bartels' abstracts from the "Colored" register 1865-1882, we have not yet compared all to the microfilm.
The 1870 census is now complete: pages 1-63r for Cedar Township, pp. 65-120 for Columbia and Columbia Township, pp. 122-157r for Missouri Township, and pp. 158-193r for "Township Forty-nine" and pp. 194-235 for "Township Fifty." These do not correspond to any of the geographical townships: families recorded in Township Forty-nine in 1870 had appeared in 1860 in Missouri Township, Columbia Township, Rocky Fork Township, and Perche Township. It appears to include a band of territory across the county, north of Columbia, in no discernable pattern. The great majority of the families in Township Fifty were residents of either Perche or Rocky Fork Township. Township Fifty-one, pp. 236-266, contained primarily families otherwise identified as residing in Perche, Bourbon, and Centralia Townships. The enumerator gave the post office address for 49, 50, and 51 as Sturgeon.
Bourbon Township was created between 1850 and 1860 from the northern tier of Perche and Rocky Fork Townships, and in 1860 included what is now Centralia Township.
This update contains the 1880 census for Bourbon Township (which in total is pp. 1-29r and Cedar Township (pp. 30-91r), with a beginning for Columbia Township (pp. 92-95r of pp. 92-163r). Still to come are Centralia Township (pp. 164-178r), Missouri Township (pp. 179-216), Perche Township (pp. 217-242), and Rocky Fork Township (pp. 243-267r).
A prior update completed the systematic entering of the Evans and Thompson Tombstone Records (1934)(standardizing the citation form). Each subsequent update adds data from some other published cemeteries, in no predictable order. Evans and Thompson only abstracted the tombstones for adults born prior to 1860, so there is still much more to be done. Consult the Boone County USGenWeb site for a much more complete listing of the county's cemeteries.
The probate abstracts from Evans and Thompson, through 1869, were previously entered. We have added 1870, 1871, and 1872 from the abstracts done by the DAR in the early 1970's. We also now have the very limited birth and death record from late 1883 through 1886 as abstracted by the DAR.
For my own family lines, most documentation is to be found in the two volumes I published in 1990: Now Living in Boone County, Missouri. Volume I: The Family and Connections of Edward Everett Easley. Volume II: The Family and Connections of Martha Catherine Cheavens. These also have photographs, photocopies of the Family Bibles, etc. Contact me by e-mail for further information, please.
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