Books About Barry Co., MO

"My Heart Returns to Home", Ozark Stories, by Margaret Hancock Montgomery, is a book about her family and friends. She taught school at Black School in Barry County and is a descendant of Rev. Golman Buford and Mary Minerva (Burris) Hancock.
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You can step into her life as a rural school teacher and see what it was like, as she remembers it, in Black School in the late forties.


She talks about her father, mother and grandparents in the book and shares her memories of growing up in the Ozarks.


Margaret and I have common ancestors, G. B. & Mary, and so we are distant cousins.


Donna

Books About Barry Co., MO

"Buried by Table Rock Lake" by Tom Koob, 2006, was in its fourth printing when I bought it a couple of years ago. I saw Tom in Kansas City at the Sports Show and visited with him for a few minutes.

His book has a lot about farms, homesteads, cemeteries as well as fords, ferries and camps of the early days in Southwest Missouri. He has several pages that concern Barry County in this work. Also, I might add, that he uses a lot of files to back up his work and writes an interesting read.

In his book, on page 15, he tells about Shell Knob and the early settlers who came there. He talks about Jack Carney who operated a store and about the 1869 robbery and murder that happened there. Most of us have read about that on the Barry County web site - on MOGenWeb - but he has a different twist to the way he reported the story of that area.

There is a lot to read in his book and one to be enjoyed for a long time.

Donna

Picnicing in Barry

Picnics were an activity that was enjoyed by our pioneers, too, especially a fourth of July picnic. Sometimes people would drive in from the far parts of Barry County to go to the Old Setters Reunion, which in the beginning was not much more than a big picnic. Donna