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HERITAGE NEWS
The following index contains links to our historical society newsletter, which was sent to members on a quarterly basis. Many society members contributed articles to the paper, and it contains an abundance of history pertaining to our county. We are now presenting the newsletters here on our website for your enjoyment. We hope you find them interesting!
Index by Jerry McKee & Lisa K. Gendron
1985 SPRING
Scales of Justice
President's Corner - Fletcher House
1985 SUMMER
Mastodon State Park
Old Herculaneum cemetery
Charles Rankin
Genealogical Help Needed
Drowsing & Divining
1985 WINTER
1904 World's Fair Corn Palace
World Fair Committee requests appropriation
Missouri's corn palace
Genealogical Tips--names
Mastodon State Park
Fletcher House--Christmas
Platters donated to Fletcher House
Christmas Open House Fletcher house
1986 SPRING
Sight seeing--Ste Genevieve, St Mary’s, Perryville 7 others
Annual Membership meeting
Fletcher House barn
1986 AUGUST
Red Smith & Mary Susan Coleman Tigert
Trails west showing
Rock Township cemetery records
1987 JULY
President's Report
Coming programs
Isabelle "Pete" Madison Von Lon--"A Wasp"
Fletcher House Report
Log book, Maid of Orleans
1987 FALL
Plank Road presentation by Gertrude Zimmer
Fletcher house
Daniel Dunklin 1790-1844
The Bootheel
Herculaneum
Records housed at DeSoto Library
Herrington cemetery
Genealogy Buffs Relationship Chart
Logbook of the steamboat "Maid of Orleans." (continued from previous issue)
1987 WINTER
Jefferson County - Lost or Gone
Genealogical Helper
The President's page
Yearly Dues
Heritage & Land Mark 1891 - 1931
Genealogy collection
Early County Newspapers
1988 MARCH
Boyhood on Crystal Heights, Chicken Hill & Butterfly area
Jefferson College History Room
Old House of Memories, Old Red Brick Plantation House
Joshua Herrington
Herrington Family Tree
Logbook of the Steamboat "Maid of Orleans"
Victoria School 1904 (Picture)
Take Note
1988 SUMMER
Mastodon State Park Tour
The Story of the Cradle
Genealogy Report
Boyhood on Crystal Heights, Chicken Hill & the Butterfly Area, Chapter 2
Jefferson Republic Newspaper 1973 - Photo Fletcher House
1988 FALL
Bingham's Missouri Performance
Fletcher House report
Ozark's Watch Society formed
1989 SPRING
Letter - Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
Old Settlers Reunions records housed at Missouri Historical Society
Old Settler's Constitution
Names in early Minutes of the Old Settlers
Annual Membership meeting
Fletcher House barn
1992 FALL
Historical presentation Commission plans
House Springs Second Annual Demaree
Jefferson Heritage & Landmark Society Meeting
De Soto Historical Society - Pictorial History
Hematite flour mill
75th anniversary for Missouri State Parks & Historic Sites
Weingarten - Prisoner of war camp erected
Report of wheat & oats thrashed
The Jefferson Democrat Aug 30, 1875 - School Directors
1993 JANUARY
Indian Burial Sites
Reminiscence of History of Jefferson County, Jefferson Democrat 1870
Indian Grave, Kimmswick - The Democrat 1878
Legend of the Indian Pipes
Mentions of Indians in Jefferson County Missouri Newspapers 1870
Missouri Indian Tribes
1993 APRIL
Rest in Peace - Tombstones
Legends can be dug up at local cemeteries - Bertha Gifford
Memories to the Dead - Jefferson Democrat March 1872
Did You Know?
Body Snatchers
Unfenced graveyards Jefferson Democrat March 1867
Robert Coxwell, Undertaker
Sunnyside Graveyard - Jefferson Democrat January 1878
William J. Kirk, Undertaker
Fred Heiligtag - Undertaker
John W. Bement - Undertaker
Advertisements: De Soto Marble Works, Louis Rieber, John Heller, Henry Brimmer, John Schneider, DeSoto Undertaking
1993 JULY
Letter from the Editor
Board of Directors Meeting
Selma Hall - Kennett's Castle: Family Names - Smith, White, Frost, Brent, Deaderick, Farrar
Daughters of American Revolution DAR
Advertisements
1993 OCTOBER
Frank Magre Day
The Democrat 1885- Doctors - Taylor, Miller, Bruce, Brookes, Horn
Indian Artifact Presentation, Charles Zimmerman
Private wells, Cisterns
Outdated Medical terminology
Epidemics
Advancement in Medicine
Diseases--smallpox, and other
November 1918 - Influenza Proclamation
Jefferson County Obituaries - Berkley, Morris, Parks, Koerner
Advertisements: Festus Drug, Dr. T.J. Jones, Druggist C.H. Bainbridge, Druggist W.H. Farrar,
1994 JANUARY
Missouri Archeological Society formed in Jefferson County
A Lost Dog 1876
St. Louis Iron Mountain Railroad
War action on the railroad
I Been Working of the Railroad
Various Jefferson Democrat articles about events and accidents on the railroad, 1875, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1886
Obituaries, Lou Kelly, James Fulcher, Henry Grob, Felix Williams
1994 APRIL
Cemetery Research
School Days (teacher listings)
1886 Jefferson Democrat, The Economy school desk, manufactured and sold by Gust Hamel
Article written (1885, 1886) by John Thompson McMullin about the early schools of Jefferson Co.
Article (1949) by Ross Shannon, Early Days of Rush Tower
1994 JULY
Genealogy
Mob Law in Jefferson County
Jefferson Democrat 1878, Mary A. Dean murdered her children (McKee, Vinyard)
Jefferson Democrat 1880, Murder of Andrew Wilson and Martha Shultz (McAnally, Huskey)
Jefferson Democrat 1881, Murder of Anson Vail (Marsden, Meyer)
Jefferson Democrat 1881, Murder of Joseph Yerger (Spradling, Drentel, Wilson, Thistle, Rogers)
The Marsden Trial
Jefferson Democrat 1884, Murder of Bonacker (Glatt, Horan)
Advertisements: Yeida, Englebach, Hamel, Klenn, Wynn, Smith, Hacke, Williams, Miller
1994 NOVEMBER
Fletcher House`
Genealogy Workshop
Four Legged Chicken
Hanover Post Office 1876
Hanover/Bailey Station: (Warne, Bailey, Howe, Donnell, Conner, Varnum, Easton, Crawford, Whitehead, Jennings, Baker, Warner, Lee, Palmer,
Angell, Turley, Null, England, Malloy, McRill, Withington, Waggener, Berry, Harrison, Goully, Posten, Brands, Schaefer, Smith)
Harrison Lake
England/Harrison Family Cemetery
Obituary Reuben Waggener 1884
1995 FEBRUARY
McCormack, A pioneer Family
The Old Red Brick Plantation House
James McCormack Cemetery
Obituary Hardy McCormack 1872
Marriages from the diary of James McCormack (1822-1849)
Deaths from the diary of James McCormack (1822-1849)
Letter from Reed McCormack to his brother Mitchell McCormack (history of Plattin Methodist Church)
Descendants of Peter Patrick McCormack
Additions and Corrections--Descendants of Peter Patrick McCormack
Correction Cemetery Listing
1995 MAY
The Civil War
Dispatches to/from Major General A.J. Smith & Major General W.S. Rosecrans (DeSoto)
Aftermath of War - Loyalty Oath
Exemption Act of 1863 (includes list of "southern sympathizers" who paid tax)
Soldiers meeting 1866
Pensioners 1884
1995 AUGUST
Cemetery Searches
Herrington Family Cemetery
Huskey Family Cemetery
McCormack Cemetery
Bliss Johnson Family Cemetery
McCormack Cemetery
Meyer Family Cemetery
Medley Family Cemetery
Thompson Family Cemetery
Vinyard Family Cemetery
Obituaries; Joshua Herrington, John Huskey, Jacob Meyer, Ann Thompson)
1996 FEBRUARY
Village Smithy in Antonia Operating since 1895 (Hoffarth, Reiche)
Locust Years -Victoria 1902
Lynx - August 1878 (Johnston, Wilson, Moss)
Unclaimed letters at the Hillsboro Post Office 1866 (list of names)
Derby City Meteorite - December 1883
1996 JUNE
Images of the Past - Photographs, Tintypes, Ferrotypes, Daguerreotype, Ambrotypes
Early Jefferson County Marriages
Goldman's oldest citizen (1949) Mrs. Lily Marsden
1997 MARCH
Indian Graveyards & Remains, Big River, Plattin Rock
Cemetery Findings (Tucker, Martin, McCormack, McMullin, Porter, Hunt)
Grave Stone Recordings
Old Naming Patterns
Our Nations History of the Web
1998 JANUARY
McMullin Cemetery
Tullock Cemetery
Memories of Bailey School
Jefferson County Place Names
Jefferson County From the Beginning - Archeology
Jarvis Cemetery History
1998 JUNE
Death of Craig Fosterling
Minutes of Old Settler's Committee September 1910
Obituary Mary A. Cable - 1896
Outside Your Back Door - Lead Mines
War Survivors 1869-1870
Mapping History
Henley House (Shelton, Horine, Adams, Donnell, Marsden) Hensley?
Advertisements
1998 SEPTEMBER
Maid of Orleans - Riverboat Captain John W. Honey
Obituaries: Elias F. Honey, Mary M. Williams
Smith - Williams Cemetery
Outside your Back Door - More information (Honey, Blair, Bates, Bell, Marsden, Hall, Frazier, Adams, Ogle)
Picture of Steamboat Maid of Orleans
1999 FEBRUARY
The Democrat February 23, 1883 - Hanover, Rockfort Hill - soap
The Democrat February 1875 - Lee Mines (Mammoth, Stelbrink)
Matilda Wideman, daughter of Henry
George Francis Gamble & associated family
Top ten ways to Know You're addicted to Genealogy
Stafford Cemetery
1999 MAY
Old Settlers Association
Introducing Charlotte
Neely Pauper Cemetery
Paupers Burial in Hillsboro Cemetery
Old Settlers List Jefferson County, Missouri (list of names, when joined, came from, died)
Jefferson County--Trivia
1999 OCTOBER
Excerpts from Old Settlers Minutes September 10, 1898
Progress of Railroad Depots - 1867
Victoria
Tyro
Hanover
Hematite
Pevely
Sulphur Springs
Kimmswick
De Soto
Organization of the Jefferson County Emigration Society 1866
Selling Jefferson County - 1880 (description of selling points of the county)
Moonshine
2000 JANUARY
Mystery of Glenfinlas
Historic Sites Lost in Jefferson County between 1970-1985
Preaching to the Choir - cemetery vandalism
Outside your backdoor, Again - Lead mines
Newspapers from the "Good old Days"
A Few Famous personages of Jefferson County, Missouri
County Newspapers
2000 APRIL
You Never Know - Searching Deed books
Correction - Glenfinlas article (Mammoth Mines)
Petition For the Creation of Jefferson County - 1818
Records Trace Development of County From Its Founding (1940)
Why was Centennial 22 years Late?
County Seat moved to Hillsboro
County Centennial Articles & Letters
Funeral Industry Progressed slowly
De Soto weekly Facts January 9, 1896
Graves at Home of Louise Cole
Bella Gamba or Lucas Cemetery
Isaac Stroud Baker Cemetery
Hematite Cemetery
Ogle-Null Cemetery
2000 SEPTEMBER
Sixth Annual Reunion Old Settlers Association 1897
Another Piece of History - Adoptions
1907 Jefferson County Directory
Sale of Village Lots in Hanover - 1866
Jefferson County Abstract Company founded in 1865
Historical Trivia
Jefferson County Farm Information 1866-1920
14th Census of the United States 1920 - County Farm
Thompson Family Cemetery, Obituary Ann. M. Thompson
McCormack Cemetery - additional stones
Medley Family Cemetery
2000 DECEMBER
1900 DeSoto Press Advertisement, Beisbarth Grocery Store Christmas Delicacies
Election 1898
Linnville & Oceola
The Literary Gazette 1918
Jefferson County Historical Society (history, books for sale)
2001 APRIL
Whoooo Here Comes the Train - St. Louis & Iron Mountain RR
Meramec River Bridge
Evangelical Lutheran Cross Church
A Hunting You Shall Go - Wills, Probates
Report of Landmarks, Old Settlers Association 1899
Interesting City Ordinances 1896
2001 JULY
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Mt Olive School Book 1910-1911
Letter Recalls Vineland Railroad Bridge 1861
History in the Warranty Deed Books
Cemetery Records, Huskey, Hale, Steinmetz, Horine, Herrington, Hilpertshauser-Bleiker, Vinyard
Morse Mill (includes picture 1938)
2001 NOVEMBER
Books in the News: John Smith T, Stephen F. Austin
Glimpse of Slavery in Jefferson County
Scout Invasion
1948 Variety Fair Cookbook
History of Missouri 1888, Methodist Churches of Jefferson County
German Methodist Church
Brief History of the Works at the Famous Lee Mines - 1920
Miller Graveyard
Independent Friends Cemetery
Items From the Jefferson Watchman December 1883
2002 FEBRUARY
Highway 21 to be finished soon - 1940
Captain Frank J. Smith
Muir Cemetery update
A Great Big Still in Haunted House - The DeSoto Press 1992
Map early 1900's
The Missouri Short-Cut Canal
Advertisements
2002 JUNE
1930 Census available
Rural School Graduation 1917
1913 Jefferson County
Additional Adoptions
Pevely News Items
Agricultural Statistics of Jefferson County 1910
Disastrous Train Wreck 1938 - Joachim Creek
2002 DECEMBER
J.C.H.S. Report
François Valle & His World
Lead Mining in Jefferson County
Primitive Methods of Early Mining
Sandy Mines
Plattin Creek Mines
Valle Mine Group
Yankee Diggins
Howe's Diggins
The Mammoth-Frumet Group
Lead Smelting in Jefferson County
Shot Tower at Herculaneum
Conclusion