"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
Barry County, MO, Genealogy and History
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
A Slice of Life
This is a slice of my life - a photo of my roses in the alley after I returned home from California last fall.
Donna
Ozark Pioneers, Their Trials and Triumphs, by Bob Hinds
"Ozark Pioneers, Their Trials and Triumphs", by Bob Hinds is about the Ozarks - really about Hutton Valley -that is in Howell County, but it is interesting and is a good genealogy read.
It is great when authors like Bob publish their works, and I think there should be more of his kind of work out there. Barry County has some books of this sort but not with the detail that Bob includes in his.
Donna
It is great when authors like Bob publish their works, and I think there should be more of his kind of work out there. Barry County has some books of this sort but not with the detail that Bob includes in his.
Donna
Monday, June 7, 2010
The Fritz, Groh, Waiss and Wiedman family Legacies Meet
The Friz, Groh, Waiss and Wiedman Family Legacies Meet is a book by John E.Groh concerning these families and the Trinity Lutheran Church of Freistatt, MO.
I am not connected to any of these families but enjoy looking at and reading books that are of the Southwest Missouri area. Freistatt is in Lawrence Co., MO, and has many interesting pioneers.
Donna
I am not connected to any of these families but enjoy looking at and reading books that are of the Southwest Missouri area. Freistatt is in Lawrence Co., MO, and has many interesting pioneers.
Donna
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions
The book by Robert K. Gilmore - "Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions". It is written about the theatrical folkways of the rural Missouri pioneers, 1885-1910 and has a copyright of 1994.
It has typical life style of the people in Barry County as well as some of the nearby counties.
It is interesting and informative. Gilmore received his PHD in theater from the University of Minnesota.
Donna
It has typical life style of the people in Barry County as well as some of the nearby counties.
It is interesting and informative. Gilmore received his PHD in theater from the University of Minnesota.
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
Saturday, June 5, 2010
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