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January 2009

Paul F. Gittemier and Dorothy
H. Gittemier to Paul F. Gittemier
and Dorothy H. Gittermier Trust
- Condominium Unit #708 Harbortown
Condominium

Derek A. Greening and Shana L.
Greening to Nickolas P. Grant and
Erica M. Grant - SWSE1/4 6-56-5

Buddy L. Strieker and Lisa J.
Strieker to Derek A. Greening Shana
L. Greening - SW1/4 3-56-5
Trustee Management Company,

Arron W. Haynes and Melissa D.
Haynes to LSFG Mercury REO Investments,
LLC - W1/2 NWSE1/4
36-56-4

Diane Jordan to Larry Ray Jordan
- Part Lot 11 and Lot 8 in Bock
12, in Perry

Sandra Karen Tapley to Harold
L. Fletcher Sr. and Virginia B.
Fletcher - Lot 116, Block 30, City
of New London

Warren Scott McLean by POA
Nancy Erica McLean and Nancy
E. McLean to Kathlene Wolkenhauer
- S1/2 21-55-4

Judith K. Epperson, Trustee Judith
K. Epperson revocable living
Trust to Lori L. Gottman - 1/6 interest
24-56-4 (Parts)

Jeannine Bramblett and Martin,
Leigh, Laws and Fritzlen PC
to Dectsche Bank National Trust
Company - Lot 8, Ideal Villa Subdivision,
Part SWNW1/4 12-56-5

Lana Ruth Dowell to Scott Robert
Dowell - Part Lot 9, Block 16,
City of Perry

Ronald R. McKenzie Jr. to
Ronald R. McKenzie and Linda
J. McKenzie - W1/2 Lot 3 NW1/4
2-55-7

Andrew Key to Lisa K. Ball
and Carl W. Ball, Aaron W. Ball
and April D. Ball, Austin C. Ball
and Elizabeth Q. Kauffman - N1/2
NW1/4 13-56-5

OCWEN Loan Servicing LLC
to B&R Frances, Inc. - N1/2 SW1/4
17-56-4

Milvin R. Miller and Karen S.
Miller to Richard D. Epperson and
Peggy S. Uppinghous
e - Part Jameson
Survey #1753-55-5

Ronald J. Cook and Linda L.
Cook to Seth Michael Cook - Part
SW1/4 11-55-4

Deutsche Bank National Trust,
Vicki Bullock and Shane Bullock
to Millsap and Singer - Part
NENE1/4 21-56-4

Kozeny & Mccubbin LC, Christopher
McGrew to Lasalle Bank
- Lots 2-3, Block 17 Dunlop and
Fosters Addition, City of Center
Martha P. Peters, Donald O. Peters,
Deceased to Connie Belinda
White - NE1/4 6-56-5 Tract I and
II

Sandra K. Loawe and Fredrick
R. Lowe to Judy Dohrn - Lot 38,
Collission Subdivision, N part
E1/2 NE1/4 1-56-5

R. Vernon Murphy to Mary
Murphy - Part Outlott 2, City of
New London

Larry W. Compton and Teresa
L. Compton. Andela E. Logston
and Tim Compton - S1/2 9-56-4
James L. Roberts and Debra Sue
Roberts to Gary D. Roberts - Part
W1/2 NW1/4 13-54-6

C&S Companies Inc. to David
S. Nickles and Rita J. Nickles - Lot
23-24, Lake Hannibal Estates
Barbara Ann Young (formerly
Barbara Annd Caldwell) to Harold
Caldwell - NENE1/4 7-55-3
Mark W. Carpenter and Janet E.
Carpenter to Mark W. Carpenter -
NE1/4 22-56-5

Michael Zane Murphy and
Shayla Michelle Murphy to Christopher
R. Budniak and Sherry M.
Budniak - E1/2 NE1/4 18-56-5
Michael Hood and Sarah Hood
and Travis Hood to Bob Schoeneman
and Jacob Schoeneman - Part
Jameson Survey 1753 55-5, Lot 46,
Mervin F. Bannisters Subdivision   1913 090211 2/11/2009 cnw

Monroe County real estate
transfers recorded during January
include the following:

Deutsche Bank National Trust
Co. to Kurt E. Hillman etal.

William and Nancy Parker to
David M. and Karen Y. Uhrich,
Billy S. and Debora J. Johnston
to Holohan, Scott

James W. Hughes to James W.
Hughes Revocable Trust
Bonnie L. Crain to Crain Living
Trust

Ruth C. Dunn etal.-trustees to
Dunn Living Trust

Hal E. and Diana F. Kinsey to
Kinsey Family Trust
Clarence and Agnus Morris Memorial
Trust to James H. Morris

James H. Morris to Jerry Morris
Lela P. Williams Irrevocable
Trust to Floyd J. and Deanna J.
Buckman

Jeffery Alan Ragsdale to Dwight
and Marjorie Cravens
Dwayne L. and Laurie Ann
Dothage, etal. to Dwayne L. and
Laurie Ann Dothage,
Victor Alan and Cindy Hultz to
Gene and Sandra Carter
Roger Mitchell to Patrick
O’Bannon

Bradley D. Leverett to Michael
W. & Kristine E. Rundell
Randall P. Baker, trustee to, Justin
E. and Kristy S. DeOrnellas

Quinn Farm Supply, Inc. to
James E. and Leslie A. Kendrick
Jerry Elsberry-Successor Trustee
etal. to Clarence Cannon Wholesale
Water Commission
Smith, Conda S. to Dunlap,
Dale & Sara

Johnson, Kenneth R. to Hopkins,
Amy Johnson & Norma Lee
Sontheimer, Marty to Gold,
Corbin J. etal.

Miller, Joseph L. Sr. & Karen L.
to Beckermann, Kevin M. & Jennifer
L.   1914 090211 2/11/2009 cnw

For those of us in the Baby
Boomer generation who traded
our Davey Crockett, King of the
Wild Frontier, coonskin caps of
the 1950s for the long rifl e of
Dan’l Boone in 1964, opening the
American Frontier was a weekly
adventure with Fess Parker.

As one of my favorite sources,
Wikipedia says, “Daniel Boone
remains an iconic, if imperfectly
remembered, fi gure in American
history.

He was a legend in
his own lifetime, especially after
an account of his adventures was
published in 1784, making him
famous in America and Europe.
After his death, he was frequently
the subject of tall tales and works
of fi ction. His adventures—real
and legendary—were infl uential
in creating the archetypal Western
hero of American folklore.

In American popular culture, he is remembered
as one of the foremost
early frontiersmen, even though
the mythology often overshadows
the historical details of his life.”
Now that we’re all grown up
and climbing the family tree we
may ask, “Who really was this
icon of American folklore and
could I be related to his Boone
family or that of his wife Rebecca
Bryan?”

Their story
begins in
Pennsylvania
with Squire
Boone and
Sarah Morgan,
who were
probably married
in 1725
and had 11 children. Morgan Bryan
and Margaret Strode, according
to one source, were married
in Pennsylvania about 1725 and
10 children.

Both families moved
near the Yadkin River in North
Carolina. There Daniel Boone,
one of Squire Boone’s younger
children, married Rebecca Bryan,
granddaughter of Morgan Bryan.
Is it any wonder so many folks
can claim kinship with the Boone
and Bryan families? As we have
discovered through the Research
Center, many of their descendants
now live or have lived in Northeast
Missouri.


For the past several months
MCHS has been fortunate to have
Carolyn Boone as a regular visitor
to the Center.

Her husband Bill
was called out of retirement to
help lay the natural gas pipeline
through Audrain County, under
the Mississippi River and into Illinois.
She left their home in Texas
to accompany him, never realizing
she would be called upon to share
her enthusiasm for Boone research
with local residents. Carolyn began
researching Bill’s Boone relatives
47 years ago.

They have spent
many vacations visiting nearly every
known place of residence for
the historic Boone family, gathering
material to prove Bill’s genealogy.
Within the last two years, she
successfully documented his lineage
to Joseph Boone, an uncle of
Daniel Boone, and a line that had
not been fully researched before
Carolyn accepted the challenge.
Her research has been accepted by
the Boone Society.

During Carolyn’s stay in Paris
many ties to the Boone and Bryan
families have been discovered and
documented. The Boone’s have
donated many books on the Boone
Family to the Research Center library
and have more in Texas to
send later this year.

If you know you are descended
from these families or would like
help determining that relationship,
or just enjoy learning more about
American icons, you are invited
to attend a Boone-Bryan Family
Workshop Feb. 26 in Paris.
The doors to the Roegee Room
in the basement of the Paris Library
will open at 6 p.m. for researchers
to share information throughout
the evening. T his will be an informal
work session so feel free to
come by any time after 6:00 and
meet your “cousins.” Refreshments
will be served.

If you are unable to attend,
please take a few minutes to send
information or questions to the
Monroe County Historical Society
at P. O. Box 131, Paris MO
65275 by Friday, February 21 so
your family can be included in the
discussion and possibly schedule
more in-depth workshops that will
undoubtedly be suggested by this
get-acquainted meeting.   1918 090211 2/11/2009 his

90 Years Ago
February 20, 1919
J. Gardner Wade, E.W. Schweer,
J.S. Conway, Lambert Hagan, W.G.
Williamson and Gerald Williamson
represented Monroe City at a
meeting in Quincy at which it was
voted to push the Northern Illinois
hard rock route over the Mississippi
River through Monroe City
to Kansas City.
Pearl Tewell and Bernard
Pierceall arrived home after receiving
their discharges from army
service in World War I.
Dr. J.N. Southern was appointed
commissioner in the Monroe City
Special Road District for a term of
two years.
Wadsworth Bros. held a dispersal
sale of their purebred Hereford
cattle. Fifty-four head sold for a total
of $26,895 with three head selling
at a top of $1,000 each.
80 Years Ago
February 15, 1929
Cecil P. Forysthe was elected
president of the Monroe City
Chamber of Commerce for his
third successive year. Ralph H.
Wingo was elected secretary and
J.A. Montgomery, treasurer.
The two-story home of South
Locust Street occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Perry Spalding and family
was destroyed by fi re on the night
of February 9.
A temperature of 3 degrees below
zero the morning of February
10 was the lowest for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. James J. White of
Milwaukee, Wis., were parents of a
daughter born February 8.
Miss Mary Lillian Fowler of
Hunnewell and Delbert A. Wyatt
of Paris were married February
10. Miss Ola Sterne and Thomas F.
Lawless were married in Hannibal
February 9.
“Aunt Ceeley” Allen celebrated
her 108th birthday on February 11,
in the home of her son, William
Allen, in this city. Born in slavery
in Hancock County, Ky., she
came to the Sidney Cmmunity in
Ralls County in 1843 at the age of
21 with her mistress, Mrs. Kathryn
Stowers Greathouse, wife of William
Greathouse, who established
his family there.
70 Years Ago
February 16, 1939
George W. Hagan, one of Monroe
City’s oldest residents, observed
his 94th birthday on February
13.
Joe Lyell of Camden, Ark.,
bought the 89-acre farm from the
Fred Hawkins estate.
The fi rst zero temperature for
the winter was recorded in Monroe
City February 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Murray
of Hunnewell were parents of a
daughter born February 10.
Mrs. Carrie Munger entertained
fellow employees of the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company.
The phone company group
included Miss Nettie Mudd, Miss
Evelyn Brown, and Miss Oneta
Losson. Mrs. Clay Barger and children,
Mary and Norman, and Doris
Swearengen also were guests.
60 Years Ago
February 17. 1949
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker were
parents of a son, Gary Paul, born
February 12, in Levering Hospital,
Hannibal.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Smith of the
Pee Dee Community were parents
of a son, David William, born February
11. He was their tenth child
and seventh son.
Seven long time members of the
I.O.O.F. Lodge were honored by
the presentation of jewels by Monroe
City Lodge No. 268. Judge Roy
B. Meriwether and B.L. Lange received
40-year jewels; Emmett O.
Hallock, chief post offi ce inspector
at Kansas City, and W.L. Bond,
R.L. Armstrong, J.E. Johnston and
James Whelan, 35-year jewels.
Warren G. See, son of MR. and
Mrs. Harry See, northwest of Monroe
City, entered upon his duties as
county agent in Howard County
with his offi ce in Fayette. See had
been serving in extension work
in Scott County in southeast Missouri.
50 Years Ago
February 10, 1959
A civic project started by the Fidelis
Club of erecting street signs
in Monroe City was nearing completion.
The total cost amounted to
$918.73.
The Businessmen’s Association
took action to back a landing strip
in Monroe City.
Gilbert Gentry of Gainesville,
Fla., received his Doctor of Philosophy
Degree from the University
of Florida, January 31. He is the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gentry and is married to the former
Mary Bell Trosper.
Monroe City High girls, coached
by Chester Boren, took fi rst place in
the Palmyra tourney. Coach Frank
Kirby’s Panther fi ve won third.
Nine Monroe City students escaped
serious injury February 9
when the bus in which they were
riding, driven by Edgar Wilson,
collided in a heavy fog with a car
driven by Mrs. R.E. Redman. Mrs.
Redman, who was unconscious
and her daughter, Jean, a passenger
in the car, were treated at St. Elizabeth
Hospital.
Norvin Yates, who retired January
31 from his duties as assistant
cashier at the Monroe City Bank
was honored with a supper and
party at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Noel.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ritter
were parents of a daughter, Colleen,
born February 4. A daughter,
Karla Marie, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Hays of Quincy, Ill.,
February 5.
40 Years Ago
February 13, 1969
Darryl Wilson returned to San
Francisco January 26 from Vietnam,
received a Purple Heart for
wounds he received while in action.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Wilson of rural Monroe
City.
Mrs. Omer Gough of Lakenan
was killed when her car hit a culvert
when she failed to negotiate a
curve near the edge of Shelbina.
Births: a daughter, Rebecca Annette,
February 9 to Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Ogle of New London; a
son, Richard Michael, February 5
to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heitmeyer
of rural Eldon, Mo.; a daughter,
Marcie Sue, February 2 to Mr. and
Mrs. Ronnie Wilhoit of St. Louis.
Darrell Edward Mott, Daryl
Eugene Buckman, James Franklin
Caldwell, Earl Wayne Powell and
Dennis Ray Gosney were among
the Monroe County 18-year-old
men registered during the month
of January.
Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Hays celebrated
their 40th wedding anniversary
February 6 with a special mass
celebration and dinner on the 7th.
30 Years Ago
February 15, 1979
Clem James was warned by his
dogs that a roof to the building he
was in was about to cave in due to
the weight of the heavy snow and
ice. The building was owned by
Ren Potterfi eld.
Lee and Kathy Anderson were
among the Missouri Young Farmers
and wives attending the President’s
Conference at the Lake of
the Ozarks.
Students chosen for the Clarence
Cannon Conference band
were Joni Hill, Jane Ann Stone,
David Wilson, Kim Hays, Martin
Taylor, Donna Hilbert, Tonia Borrowman
and Mary McClintock.
Births: twin son and daughter,
Jason Robert and Jennifer Rebecca,
February 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Lincoln; a son Eric Ryan, February
1 to Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Caldwell
of Lakenan; a daughter, Sasha Lee,
February 9 to Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Wilson of Burlington, Iowa.
20 Years Ago
February 16, 1989
The Monroe City R-I FFA was
preparing for their special week as
National FFA week begins February
18-25.
Births: a son, Anthony Kyle, Jr.,
February 8 to Anthony (Tony) and
Becky Ward of Winnsboro, La.; a
daughter, Ashley Nicole, February
7 to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Begley.
Members of the Monroe City
Pom Pon squad included: Yvonne
Gander, captain; Christy Spalding,
co-captain; Amy Chisham, Stacey
Shively, Dayna McLaughlin, Amy
Minor, Rachel Schachtsiek, Jackie
Morris, Monica Mayes, Sarah
Spalding, and Lisa Shinn.
Juanita Yates won seven awards
during the 1989 Missouri Press
Women Communications Contest.
10 Years Ago
February 16, 1999
State Commissioner of Education
Robert Bertmann visited with
the class of Mrs. Faye Chitwood
about the Little House on the Prairie
project that they enjoy.
Births: a daughter, Angela Rose,
February 5 to Rich and Amy Halter
of Quincy.
Rachel Hays, daughter of Gary
and Sharon Hays, Jennifer Bohrer,
daughter of Randy and Jenna
Bohrer and Eric Keller, son of
Robert and Debbie Keller were to
participate at the regional spelling
bee to be held in Quincy.
Mandy Latta of Hannibal was
named as the new Miss Mark
Twain Lake during the annual pageant
held at the Center Elementary
school.   1908 090211 2/11/2009 his

When our Monroe County pioneers
left the relative comfort of
their homes east of the Mississippi
River to carve a home from the
wilderness, they must have realized
they had a few advantages
their ancestors would envy.

The Indian hostilities that had plagued
their parents and grandparents as
they moved across the mountains
from the original 13 colonies were
far removed from Northeast Missouri,
but perhaps an even bigger
incentive to settle here was the
ability to obtain a clear title to a
well-mapped affordable parcel of
land.

Once independence from England
was declared in 1776, the
Continental Congress began the
process of defi ning the functions of
the new nation’s government. Article
IX of the Articles of Confederation
recognized the need for Congress
to standardize weights and
measures throughout the United
States. Land had been previously
surveyed more according to its productivity
than its size.

The French, Spanish and English each had their
own terms for measuring the territory
and as treaties were signed
and American settlers moved beyond
the original 13 colonies, land
claims often overlapped.
The Northwest Ordinance of
July 13, 1787 set the stage for the
rapid growth of the new nation.
Primogeniture (the old English
practice of inheritance by the oldest
son) and entails (which kept
heirs from selling or transferring
the land to someone else) were
abolished.

This provided for inheritance
by all children as well as
the widow and allowed the land to
be freely sold. It also established
the form of territorial government
and laws; slavery was outlawed in
the Northwest Territory. When the
free population reached 50,000 an
area could be admitted as a State to
the Union. The Ordinance did not
specify exactly how the land was to
be surveyed; merely that it was to
be mapped before sold. These policies
encouraged rapid settlement
which in turn created the need for
surveys and land offi ces.

The Public Land Survey System
(PLSS) was established to map the
public domain lands. At irregular,
but well-advertised periods at the
offi ce of the Board of Treasury in
New York City, lands indicated on
plats were offered for sale to the
highest bidders over the minimum
price of $1 per acre. Ohio became
kind of a surveying laboratory. In
non-public lands, and even some
areas that followed the principal of
the grid, surveyors were not consistent
in their numbering pattern.
The fi rst Surveyor General of
the United States was not appointed
until an Act of Congress created
the position May 18, 1796. That act
also defi ned the method of surveying
the land that would be used in
all future public land sales. For the
fi rst time the term “section” was
used to subdivide townships that
were six miles square and mandated
the order of numbering those
sections. It also standardized the
length of measurement that Thomas
Jefferson had espoused twenty
years before.

Previous surveys in the colonies
had largely been conducted privately
by investors to establish their
claims. While their maps included
charts of the terrain, the boundaries
had been established by the English
system of metes and bounds.
Land records in those states are not
part of the PLSS making it diffi cult
for genealogists to trace their ancestors.
If you have ever tried to
identify an ancestral home from
a description of land described in
that manner, you understand the
problem. While the surveyor did
use a rod, pole and chain to determine
the distance between a corner
and along a boundary line, the
description of metes-and-bounds
survey landmarks included trees,
meandering streams and rivers,
and sometimes another property
owner’s boundary as markers. That
was all well and good if you knew
the neighbors and assumed that
the trees would stand and the water
ways would not change course
over time.

The metes-and-bounds system
presented other problems for an expanding
population in need of land.
According to the author of “Measuring
America,” Andro Linklater,
“A metes-and-bounds survey did
not just produce shapes that only
the best surveyors could measure,
it created a maze of bureaucratic
form-fi lling that invited fraud and
wholesale corruption. […] the
procedure was complicated by the
inaccurate maps drawn by poorly
trained surveyors, and by the mistakes
made freely or for bribes by
inadequately paid registrars and
land offi cers so that legal claims
were forgotten or predated. In 1816
(for instance), Kentucky’s auditor
contritely revealed that hundreds of
legally purchased farms had never
been registered, and that as a result
the state had sold the owners’ land
all over again.”

The size of the country nearly
doubled with the Louisiana Purchase
of 1803. By then Thomas Jefferson
was President of the United
States and the Government Land
Offi ce was up and running.

The old Spanish and French land grants
had to be sorted out, treaties negotiated
with the native population,
and the new territory surveyed before
it could be sold as public land.
That was good news for a growing
population east of the Mississippi
River itching to move west and obtain
good farm land. The survey of
Missouri Territory began in 1815 in
what is now Arkansas and moved
north. By 1819 there was suffi cient
population in what would become
the State of Missouri that the Territorial
Legislature applied for statehood.
Thomas Jefferson’s dream of
small square plots the average
small farmer could afford, fi rst
proposed to the State of Virginia
in 1776, fi nally came true April
24, 1820, over a year before Missouri
became a state. With this act
regarding the sale of public lands,
Congress took a giant step forward.
They abolished the credit system
of purchase, reduced the price per
acre to $1.25, down from $2, and
offered all the non-reserved public
lands for sale in 80-acre, half-quarter
sections.
The June 22, 1820 issue of the
Kentucky Gazette newspaper advertised
“Lands for Sale by the U.
S. Government” in several states.
One such sale was “at Franklin,
Mo., on the fi rst Monday in November
next, for the lands in the
Military Bounty Tract (north of the
Missouri River) which could not be
distributed to solders, being chiefl y
quarter sections and fractions too
small or too large for bounty lots.
Each sale shall continue for three
weeks or longer and commence
with the lowest number of lot in
a section, township and range and
proceed in regular numerical order.”
The ad was issued under the
hand of President James Monroe
and Josiah Miegs, Commissioner
of the General Land Offi ce.
The earliest land patents of record
in Monroe County were issued
to Jeremiah Groshong on
March 25, 1819 at the St. Louis
Land Offi ce and to Andrew Whittenburg
on January 28, 1822 and
Hume Sturgeon on March 27,
1822 at the Franklin Land Offi ce.
In 1825 a land offi ce was opened
at Palmyra and by 1858 over three
million acres of land had been
sold at that offi ce alone. Most of
the land patents issued in Monroe
County came through Palmyra.
While the initial survey pretty well
assured clear title to affordable
parcels of farm land, the volume of
applications caused a serious backlog
in processing the claims. It is
not unusual to fi nd a deed on fi le at
the Monroe County court house for
land that was sold before the original
land patent was issued.

The original survey cornerstone
markers, some made of wood
posts, rocks or mounds of earth,
were established in Missouri between
1815 and 1855, and many
have been lost through time. Currently
the Missouri Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) is working
with the U. S. Public Land Survey
System to restore more than 90
percent of the State’s original survey
markers.

The new permanent
monuments are made of aluminum
pipes, iron rods, or iron pipes with
caps stamped to identify the corner.
Last fall the DNR contracted
with the Boone, Lewis, Marion,
Monroe, Osage, Pike, Ralls, Randolph
and Shelby commissioners
and their respective county surveyors
to help restore their land survey
monuments. Not only are they
historically important but are still
critical to the accurate description
of land ownership.   1909 090211 2/11/2009 his

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