Reference Resources
Census, Histories, Schools, Misc.

Following you will find a partial list of resources available
in the local genealogy library in Bowling Green, MO.

 

 

* BIRTHS * MARRIAGES * CENSUS * DEATHS * CEMETERIES * CHURCHES * HISTORIES * NEWSPAPERS* SCHOOLS * FAMILIES * GENEALOGY * MISC *

 
Title Credits
CENSUS
  1830  
  Federal Census 1830 Pike Co. MO (24 pages) by Marilyn Moore
  Census Index Ralls Co. MO
Includes: Saverton, Spencerburg, Salt River, Jackson Union
 
  1840  
  Callaway County Missouri State Census 1844 (indexed) by Carolyn M. Bartels
  1850  
  1850 Census of Pike Co. MO (131 pages indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census for Audrain Co. MO (38 pgs.) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census for Callaway Co. MO (121 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census of Lincoln Co. Missouri (93 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Linn County MO Census (48 pgs.) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census for Marion County MO (120 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census of Montgomery County Missouri (56 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Federal Census for Ralls Co. MO (62 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 Census for Boone County, MO (141 pgs. indexed) compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  Federal Census 1850 Ray County MO (115 pgs.) by Audrey L. Woodruff or Nadine Hodges
  Warren Co. 1850 Federal Census (65 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1850 St. Clair Census  
  1860  
  1860 Census Indian Township Pike Co. MO (21 pages indexed)  
  1860 Census Spencer Township Pike Co. MO  
  1860 Federal Census for Audrain Co. MO (91 pgs.) Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1860 Federal Census for Callaway Co. MO Part I (85 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1860 Federal Census for Callaway Co. MO Part II (156 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1860 Linn County MO Census (107 pgs.) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1860 Montgomery County Missouri Census (204 pgs. indexed in front of book) compiled by Jean Wheeler
  1860 Federal Census for Ralls Co. MO (89 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1870  
  1870 Federal Census of Lincoln Co. MO Part I (101 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1870 Federal Census of Lincoln Co. MO Part II (101 pgs. indexed) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1870 Linn County MO Census Part 1 (114 pgs.) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1870 Linn County MO Census Part II (197 pgs.) by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
  1880  
  1880 Census Union Township Lincoln Co. MO (42 pgs.) donated by Donna Darnell
  1883 Pensioners online (Audrain, Callaway, Lincoln, Marion, Montgomery, Pike and Ralls Co. MO  
  1890  
  1890 Military Census of Missouri Counties of Lincoln, Montgomery and Warren (121 pgs. indexed) compiled by Snowhill Press
 

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HISTORIES
  Pike County Missouri  
  Missouri Pioneers of Pike County by InfoTech Publications
  History of Pike County Missouri 1883 (indexed)  
  Early Settlers of Pike Co. Missouri from North and South Carolina by Karen P. Myers
  Pike County Missouri People, Places and Pikers 1981 (727 pgs. indexed)  Can be purchased at the Louisiana Public Library, Louisiana, MO
  Index to Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls and Pike Counties  
  Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls and Pike Counties Missouri Vol. I  
  Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls and Pike Counties Missouri Vol. II  
  Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls and Pike Counties Missouri 1895 (1982 Revised Edition)  
  History of Spencer Township  
  Bowling Green Pictorial  
  Sesquicentennial Louisiana, MO 1818-1968  
  Souvenir Book of Centennial & Homecoming of Bowling Green, MO 1823-1923  
  Bowling Green, MO - Her People  
  Louisiana and Clarksville, Missouri City Diretory for 1875-1876 originally compiled by D.E. Hawley
recompiled by Marilyn Moore
  Tales and Talk from Down in Pike, a collection of rememberances and research from Calumet Township in Southeastern Pike County, Missouri A Bicentennial Project of Coterie GFWC Clarksville, Missouri - 1976
  History of Hartford Township  
  Bicentennial and History of New Harmony Missouri Area June 1976  
  History of Salt River Association, MO  
  History of Ashburn, Missouri  
  Audrain County Missouri   
  Memories of the Farber Area Farber Area Centennial 1872-1972
  History of Audrain County Missouri an update 1936-1986 (Sponsor's Edition) (599 pgs. indexed)  
  Vandalia Area Centennial 1874-1974 donated by Mollie Price
  Vandalia Area Centennial Record donated by Mollie Price
  Lincoln County Missouri  
  Lincoln County Missouri Pictorial History Book Vol. I, Book 2 (69 pgs.)  
  History of Lincoln County Missouri (From the Earliest time to the Present) (reprint - partially indexed) Printed by The Godspeed Publishing Co. 1888
  Truxton and Nostalgia December 1976 (Lincoln County) donated by Gail Leonard
  Marion County Missouri  
  Sesqui-Centennial 1819-1969 Hannibal, MO  
  Stone's Tri-County Directory 1892 (History of Lewis and Marion Co. MO and Adams County, IL)  
  1884 History of Marion County Missouri (1083 pgs. including index)  
  Rhineland Missouri Scrapbook-a Quarter Century 1902-1927 by Siegar and Lois Muehl
  Middletown History  
  History of Montgomery County Missouri 1885 (953 pgs. plus index)  
  Ralls County Missouri  
  Ralls County, Missouri 1980 (473 pgs. including index)  
  Ralls County Missouri Settler and Settlements Vol. I Lick Creek by Ralls County Historical Society, Inc.
  The End of a Way of Life "The Fate of the Johanna People of Salt River" written by Dee Paul West
researched by Okle V. Rouse
  All Over Missouri  
  History of St. Charles MO (1765-1885) (574 pgs. indexed)  
  Old Families of Randolph Co. MO (492 pgs. plus index) by Howard Wright Marshall
donated by Walsworth Publishing Co.
  Missouri Pioneers County and Genealogical Records Vol. I by Woodruff-Hodges
  Missouri Pioneers County and Genealogical Records Vol. II by Woodruff-Hodges
  Marking Missouri History edited by James W. Goodrich and Lynn Wolf Gentzler
for the State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
  Gone to Missouri (From Whence They Came to Where and When) compiled by Marilyn Moore
 

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SCHOOLS
  Pike County Missouri  
  The Rural Schools of Pike County Missouri (First Issue) by Arline McNutt
  The Rural Schools of Pike County Missouri (Second Issue with Photos) by Arline McNutt
  St. Clement School 1997-1998  
  Prairie View School (A Remembrance)  
  Louisiana Missouri High School  
  Louisiana Missouri High School Alumni 1875-1975  
  Watson Seminary 1854-1916  
  The Speaker, Bowling Green Yearbook 
1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
 
  "Echo" Frankford City Schools of Frankford, MO Yearbook 1939  
  "AEOLUS" (Eolia) YHearbook 1948, 1949  
  All Over Missouri  
  Savitar (Year Book Vol. 32 University of Missouri Columbia)   
  Savitar (1917) Year Book University of Missouri Columbia  
  Savitar (1918) Year Book University of Missouri Columbia  
 

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MISC.
  Pike County Missouri  
  Tools of Louisiana, Missouri (Buffum Tools)  
  Missouri Amish Directory 2000  donated by Marvin Darnell
  Boncl R-10 School Cookbook donated by Phyllis Hunter
  Poems All  the Way From Pike by Robertus Love
donated by Robert Bland
  Louisville Masonic Lodge  
  Pike County Missouri Poor Farm (Articles and Census Records)  
  Misc. Bible Records, Death Certificates, Marriage Licenses and Wills  
  Audrain County Missouri   
  Laddonia Area 100th Anniversary 1871-1971 (93 pgs.) by Laddonia Area Centennial History Book Committee
  Mexico Missouri Con Survey Directory 1950 donated by Charlie Rule
  Mexico Missouri Con Survey Directory 1960 donated by Charlie Rule
  Vandalia First Christian Church 1975 Yearbook   
  Callaway County Missouri  
  Callaway County Missouri Probate 1821-1850 (indexed by entries) compiled by Carolyn M. Bartels
  Callaway County Missouri Minors and Guardians 1821-1854 (indexed by entries) by Carolyn M. Bartels
  Callaway County Missouri Minors and Guardians Vol. II 1846-1856 (24 pgs. in alphabetical order)  
  Linn County Missouri  
  Index to Biographies History and Biography of Linn Co. MO donated by Donna Darnell
  Index to Biographies Linn Co. MO donated by Donna Darnell
  Montgomery County Missouri  
  Montgomery Co. MO Genealogical Letters  
  Ralls County Missouri  
  Reprints of Ralls County Missouri Articles from 25 years of St. Louis Genealogical Quarterlies  
  All Over Missouri  
  Slaves Escaping from Missouri by Terrill Dempsey (Hannibal Courier Post)
  Missouri Infantry Co. "F" by Kenneth E. Weant
  St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly (six volumes)  
  Warren County Missouri Probate 1833-1856 (indexed) by Carolyn Bertels
  Past Times St. Charles Charles: The City-The County-Missouri USA (6 issues)  
  Henry Co. Review March 1982-Nov. 1984  
  The Ill., Ia., Mo. Searcher (7 issues)  
  Encyclopedia of Missouri Courthouses  
  Findings at Missouri State Archives (loose leafs)  
  Old Matt's Memories in Poems by Chris Meadows
  Shad (a biography of Lloyd "Shad" Heller) by Margaret Newton
  The Promise Land (a story about the Ozark Mountains and the early settlers of Southwest Missouri) by Norvel M. Matthews
  Bald Knobbers by Lucile Morris Upton
  Stories of the Pioneers by E.J. and L.S. Hoenshel
  The Granny Woman of the Hills by Ella Ingenthron Dunn
  The Old Timers Did It This Way by W.O. Taylor
  Missouri Historical Review Vol. XCII No. 2
plus several other copies of the Missouri Historical Review
by the State Historical Society of MO
  A Guide to County Records on Microfilm by Roy Blunt, Secretary of State
  Miscellaneous magazines  
  Pictures of WWII Servicemen 
They Served With Glory
 
  Five Months at the Front by Robert C. Rogers
donated by Mary Gaw, sister of the author, and Bowen Rogers
  Misc. Records of Wilvas L. Davis (Army records, diplomas, etc.) Boone Co. Historical Society
   Monroe County Missouri Then and Now 1831-2006  
  From Other Places  
  Stories in Stone Jefferson County Cemetreies Vol. 1
(South of the French Broad River and Dumplin Valley)
by David H. Templin and Cheryl Bolin Henderson
donated by the family of James Baker
  Stories in Stone Jefferson County Cemetreies Vol. 2
(Dandridge and White Pine Sections)
by David H. Templin and Cheryl Bolin Henderson
donated by the family of James Baker
  In the Shadows of the Smokies
(Sevier Co Tennessee Cemeteries)
by Smokey Mountain Historical Society
donated by the family of James Baker
  1880 Census Tennessee Transcriptions for Blount County  donated by the family of James Baker
  East Tennessee History Vols. A, B, C, D reprinted from Goodspeed History of Tennessee 
donated by the family of James Baker
  Index to 1820 Census of Tennessee by Elizabeth Petty Bentley 
donated by the family of James Baker
  Tennessee Cousins-a History of Tennessee People by Worth and Ray 
donated by the family of James Baker
  1890 Civil War Veterans Census-Tennesseans in Texas by Byron and Barbara Sistler 
donated by the family of James Baker
  Several volumes of Ansearcin' News (The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine) donated by the family of James Baker
 

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