Basic History and Genealogy Sites

• Christian County Ancestors, by Jo Dunne
• Christian County, Missouri GenForum
• Christian County, Missouri GenWeb
• Christian County, Missouri Transcribed Records
• Christian County Museum and Historical Society
• Genealogy Sites
• Missouri Genealogy Sites

Christian County Genealogy

• 1860 Census Christian County MO Indexed and Transcribed by Jo Dunne
• 1860 Census Christian County MO - Census Images
• 1870 Census Christian County MO Indexed and Transcribed by Jo Dunne
• 1895 Map of Christian County, Missouri
• 1920 Township Map of Christian Co MO from SK Publications
• 1930 Platbooks on Line from the University of Missouri
  Hint - 118 Counties - Choose Browse Records, Scroll down to and click on Christian County to see 1930 Christian County Plat Book
• Adams Funeral Home
• Albion's Seed, from the book by David Hackett Fischer
  THE KEY to understanding the life and customs of the Scotland natives or the people of "the border" who settled in Pennsylvania, the Carolinas & Appalachia.
• Alf Bolin's Outlaw Loot
• Bald Knobbers - Vigilantes of the Missouri Ozarks 1883 - 1892
• Battle of Wilson's Creek , on-line book by David Long
  Casualties, Controversies, Quotes, Bibliographies & Links - Fantastic website
• Battle-Ground upon Wilson's Creek
• Bittersweet Magazine - Lebanon (MO) High School
• Bloody Ridge/Eastern Star School 1919-1925 - Class Rolls
• Boaz, MO Circa 1910- Photos by Calvin Davis and essays by Uriel B. Stokes
• Bridges in Christian County, MO
• Chapman Cemetery
• Christian County Health Department - Vital Records
• Christian County, Missouri Casualties in World War II
• Christian County Death Certificates 1910 - 1958
• Christian County Cemeteries
  Laura Flebbe's Transcriptions of some the burials in Adams, Bledsoe, Braden, Butler, Casebolt, Farmer, Forbis, Friend, Highlandville, Green Valley, Highlandville and Porter Cemeteries
• Christian County Courthouse
• Christian County, Missouri - Land Patents 1831 - 1969, From the Missouri State Archives
• Christian County, Missouri Mailing List Archives - Browse
• Christian County, Missouri Mailing List Archives - Search
• Christian County, Missouri Population by Year and Town
• Christian County, Missouri Vital Records
• Christian County, Missouri Records
  Local Records Inventory by the State Archives
• Christian County, Missouri Township Map
  Shows only 19 townships. There were 26 townships in 1990. Five townships on the map are not in the current 26. - more likely date is about 1920 to 1940.
• Civil War In Missouri. Includes links to list of Civil War tombstones in Missouri cemeteries
• Community Link Cafe - Current maps of Ozark and Christian County, Missouri
• Cousin Connect - Christian County, MO Queries
• Delaware Town in the James River Valley - SMSU 2004 Archeological Field School
• Directory of Local Historical, Museum & Genealogical Agencies of Missouri
• DMOZ - Open Directory - Christian County, Missouri
• Find a Grave - Christian County Listings
• Frisco Papers and More
• Frisco Employee Cards
• GAR Encampment - May 1900, Springfield, Missouri
• Index of files in Western Historic Manuscript Collection - search place such as Chiristian County or name such as Lucille Morris Upton
• Indian Land Cessions - see Map 37 & Treaties No. 123, 150 & 179
• James River Archaelogy Project
• Janice Looney's Transcribed Books of Records
• Land Patents - Christian County, from the Missouri Archives, Secretary of State, Includes School Sections (Section 16, sold to support schools in that area]
• Linkpendium - Christian County, Missouri
• Making Treaties - Good Faith or Deception?
• McCauley Cemetery
• Missouri County Officials
• Missouri Extract from John Reed Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America
• Missouri Legends - The Fierce Missouri Bald Knobbers
• Missouri Native American Genealogy
• Missouri Public Record.Com - Christian County
• Missouri State Archives Birth & Death Records On-Line
  Links to Christian Birth Register 1883 -1887, much shorter Christian County Birth Records 1840 - 1904 and records from other counties.
• National Archives & Records Adminstration - Kansas City
• National Association of Counties - Christian County, MO
• Newton County, Arkansas, will of Hugh B. Phillips - resident of Christian County, Missouri 1878 - 1894
• Nixa Alumni Page
  Registration required to use most features
• Nokes Cemetery
• Ozark Folk Center
  Not in Christian County, but a living museum of how people lived in the Ozarks
• Ozarks Genealogical Society
• OzarksWatch - The Magazine Documenting the Ozarks
• OzarksWatch VideoMagazine from Ozarks Public Television KOZK
• Max Hunter Folk Song Collection from Missouri State University and Springfield-Greene County Library
• Pegram - Ozark Collection, from Drury University Library
• Political Graveyard - Christian County, Missouri
• Porter Cemetery
• Sanborn Insurance Maps of Missouri
Includes 1 map of Billings #126; 2 maps of Clever #758 and #759; and five maps of Ozark #3750 through #3754
• Springfield News-Leader - Genealogy
• State Historical Society
• Stone/Walker/Gardner Cemetery - In Parchcorn Hollow, Christian County, MO
• Story of the Bald Knobbers Missouri Historical Review Oct 1923
• Transcript of Joseph Phillabert in Missouri Supreme Court Case Against the William Gillis Estate. Filed January 15, 1875
• Union Soldiers Wounded or Buried in Southwest Missouri 1861-1865
• Western Historic Manuscript Collections - University of Missouri - Rolla - Collections about Christian County, Missouri
• Where The Wilson Meets The James {A Virtual Museum], by The Center for Archealogical research of Missouri State University
• Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
• Young Brothers' Massacre, by John R. Woodside
• Young Brothers' Massacre, by Chappell Locke

Christian County History On Springfield/Greene County Library's Page

• Across the Rivers & Mountains They Came, by Douglas Mahnkey [Gideon, Pickney, Walker]
• Alf Bolin's Buried Treasure, by Douglas Mahnkey
• The Bakers of Taney County, Missouri: Family History
• Bald Knobbers, a Select Biography, by Charlotte an
• Bald Knobbers, Ozark Vigilantes, by Gerry Darnell
• The Battle Of Dug Springs, by Leonard J. Williams
• Ben Cummings
• Bits & Pieces, by Ionamae Rebstock [Costlow]
• Bits & Pieces, by Ionamae Rebstock [Hilton, Scott, Landers]
• Biography of Jacob Painter, Early Greene County Miller and Gunsmith
• Brays Settlement (part I) by Robert Taylor Bray
• Brays Settlement (part II) by Robert Taylor Bray
• Brumley Family of Miller & Christian County, Missouri
• The Carrollton-Forsyth-Springfield Road, by Elmo Ingenthron
• Cemeteries of Christian County, Missouri, by Mrs. Robert Browning
  Old Boston, Farmer, Old Linden (more commonly called Holland or Jones/Holland), Sunrise & Temple Hill
• Christian County Historical Briefs
• Christian County Museum, by Paul Johns
• Christian County Veteran Recalls Ceremony at Lincoln Burial [G. B. Seals of Nixa served as military escort for burial of Abraham Lincoln]
• Civil War in the Upper , by Elmo Ingenthron
• Civil War Letter
  Linville Bradley to his wife Martha Jane (Woody) Bradley, Sparta, MO Nov 30, 1864
• Community and Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War on the Ozarks - Christian County
• Community and Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War on the Ozarks - Collections
• "The Court is Dismissed. The Court is Drunk." Told by Herbert Rogers [Judge Neville]
• Delaware Farm on the James, by Andrew Howard
• Did Frank Day Kill Isom Day, by Lucille Chrisman
• Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets, Past & Present Christian County, Missouri, by Arthur Paul Moser
• Dug Spring, Aug 2, 1861, by Dewey Short
• The Dye Family, by Bertha (Dye) Larson
• Early History of Stone County, by Charles L. Henson
• Enterprise School, by Bertha (Dye) Larson
• Games & Toys at the Turn of the Century [Lynn Tunnell, Ozark, MO]
• George Washington Dewitt: His Descendants
• George Washington Dewitt: His Descendants
• Good Old Times, by Isaac Workman
• Greene County Records
  Cooperative Project of the Greene County Archives and the Springfield/Greene County Library, this includes early divorces, circuit court records, Coroner's records, almshouse, strays and more
• I Bequeath One Slave, by Gene Geer [Marley, Bray, Chestnut & Walker]
• I Remember Grandma, by Mabel Brummett Harp [Roller]
• In My Father's House
• Index to the Justice of Peace Docket Books, Greene County, Missouri 1835 - 1885
• J. G. Burger Family
• The James Cook, Jr. Family of Taney County, Missouri, by Charles L. Grimm
• John C. & Volney "Vol" Clark, Brothers and Lifelong Partners of Swan, Missouri [Hammond, Moody, Preston]
• Jolly Old Pedagogue, by E. J. & L. S. Hoenshel
• Josiah McQuire and Elizabeth (Ball) McQuire
• The Kentlings of Highlandville, by Gene Geer
• The Levy Boswell Family of Taney County, Missouri, by Mary Lou Boswell
• McCullah Chapel
• Marriage Records, Christian County, Missouri, Book 1, by A. L. Vineyard
• Mary Barber, My Mystery Ancestress, by Gladys Carison
• Mining Boom of the 1890's
• Missouri Public Schools, 1914 [Christian, Stone, Douglas & Taney Counties]
• My Battle with the Varmints, by Loma Schupbach
• New Life to Historic Riverdale, by Edith McCall
• One-Room Schools and Canning Factories, by Paul Johns
• Origins of a Missouri Rural School Teacher, by Percy Bridges
• Our Friend Family, by Dean Wallace
• Ozark Invincibles
• Ozark and Vicinity in the Nineteenth Century (Part 1), by William Neville Collier
• Ozark and Vicinity in the Nineteenth Century (Part 2), by William Neville Collier
• Ozark and Vicinity in the Nineteenth Century (Part 3), by William Neville Collier
• Ozark and Vicinity in the Nineteenth Century (Part 4), by William Neville Collier
• Ozark News & Periodical Index>
  A Project of the Springfield/Greene County Library
• Ozark Notes (part I), by Charles Elkins Rogers
• Ozark Notes (part II), by Charles Elkins Rogers
• Ponce de Leon, Town of Departed Glory, by Lucille Brown
• Pathways of the Press, by Elmo Ingenthron
• Probate of Decedents' Estates a Century Ago in Christian County, by Gene Geer [Samuel Moses estate]
• Rantz Mill & Spring, by W. D. Cameron
• Regional Periodicals
  Springfield/Greene County Library's full-text, keyword-searchable OzarksWatch, White River Valley Historical Quarterly and Bittersweet. Don't miss such gems as "Ozark and Vicinity in the Nineteenth Century" and numerous articles on Christian County families.
• Reminiscences of a Boy at Billings, Missou, by Cletus R. Ackerman
• The Rogers Family of Ozark, Missouri, by Charles Elkins Rogers
• The Roller Family of Roller Holler, by Bill & Vera Wood
• Rules of Conduct, White Oak School, Christian county, Missouri, 1883
• Schupbach Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri
• Schupbach Family, Friends to All, by Omar Brown
• Story of Two Pioneer Families Whose Lives Intertwined [Burdett & Riggs], by Claude Hibbert
• Stories of the Pioneers, by E. J. & L. S. Hoenshel
• Surviving Post Offices, by Raymond W. Derr
• There is The Promised Land, by Harriet Howard Massey
• Three-Minute Stories Not in Print [Griffith & Sallee]
• Turnbo Manscripts, by Silas Claiborn Turnbo 1844-1925
  Keyword Searchable writings of a resident of the White River Valley area of Arkansas and Missouri
• Up and In Line By Daybreak: A Consider Skermish, by Gene Geer [Taylor Bray]
• Weaver Cemetery, Ozark, Missouri
• The Welch Girls, by Lucille Brown
• Where Did All the Money Go?, by Lynn Morrow
• Who the Heck was Alf Bolin?
• White Oak School, by Rudolph Hilton
• Wilderness Road, 1876, by Linda Myers-Phinney
• William Jeptha Johnson, a Memoir by his granddaughter, Faun I. Hill
• William Kimberling, from Reminiscent History of the Ozarks [Mayes, Gardner]
• William Riley Adams, by Emmett Adams
• Willis Keithley, by Teckla Keithley

Genealogy Researchers

Note: These are samples of pages available. There are many more. Submissions of other Christian County ancestry links are welcome. Hint: Use your browser's search feature to check for your surnames of interest. Remember to do further searches on major Genealogy websites such as GenForum, GenWeb, GenCircles, Family Search, RootsWeb, World Connect, and Cyndi's List.

• Ancestors from Virginia On
  Bryant, Moulder, Terry
• Ancestors of Darrell Stroh
  Estes, Steel
• Ancestors of Debbie Ewins-Gordon
  Box, Chrisman, Cook, Davis, East, Frazier, Gideon, Gilmore, Gonce, Hayes, Mapes, McReynolds, Stewart, Wilhite, Woods
• Ancestors of Lawrence Gardner Boyd
  Boyd, Gardner, Holland, Porter, Spivey, Webb
• Appleby Heritage Association
• Bailey, by Robert Bailey
  Ginger, Luster
• Bench and Swearengin, by Richard L. Bench
  Bench, Kershner, Swearengin, Moses, Bookout, Roberts, Hayden
• Benjamin "The Immigrant" Rogers
  Rogers, Doak, Watts
• Betty's Boneyard - Betty Tartas
  Bruton, Frazier, Huber, Whitecotton
• Bigelow Society
  Chrisman, Day
• Bob Francis' Genealogy Database
  Bedford, Garrard, Toland,Wilson
• The Bookout Family
  Bookout, by Yvonne James-Henderson
• Bray, Overton Biography from Fremont County, Idaho "Genealogy Trails"
  
• Calvin Cloud
  Carpenter, Cloud, Mills, Nail
• Castles of My Mind - Nelda Percival
  Bridges, Cupp, Scott, White,
• Couts Family Webpage
  Couts
• Cox Family Genealogy
  Berry, Cox, Gideon, Hammons, Jones, Payne, Thogmartin, Willhite
• Crain Ancestors of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Texas
  Crain
• Descendants of William Dye
  Dye, Dobbs, Stewart, Gideon, McReynolds, Gideon
• Descendants of James Isham Gideon
  Gideon
• Dick Kraus's Kin - See Ozark Mountain Clan at Book 2, Chapter 5
  Blubaugh, Case, Casebolt, Chrisman, Ellison, Friend, Patterson, Stallings, Trimble, Yocham
• Descendants of Cornelius Dunham c1799-1863
  Dunham, Frazier, Grubaugh, Lawson, Maybee - lots of family photos
• Dixon & Stevenson Families
  Cheek, Elkins, Hannah, Hildebrand/Hilderbrand, Kelly, McDaniel, Melton, Pendleton, Teague, White
• Duncan Geneaology Research Files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson, the Genealogy Bug
  Duncan
• The Dunne's Home Page
  Coker, Jackson, Turner, Yocum
• Dye Branches
  Dye, Dobbs, Bright, Bilyeu, Lawson, Patterson
• Ellibee-Perry, by Allison & Don Allibee
  Brown, Hanks
• Families of Samuel Lafayette & Susan (Matthews) Jackson
• Family of Robert Alexander Cowan, by Edna Cowan Huber
  Cowan, Mills, Parks, Sullivan, Wiles
• Flebbe's Genealogy Page
  Chrisman, Forgey, Shelton, Yeary, Zirkel
• For James & Mintora (Lee) Wilhite
  Lee, Riley, Rubottom, Stephenson, Wilhite
• The Fraziers of Christian County, Missouri
  Frazier, Jackson, McCroskey
• Gerald Hankins Johnston Family and Ancestors - World Connect file
  Burkhart, Garrison, Melton, Mitchell, Peace, Roberts, Shipman, Smith, Watts
• Grant Family Home Page - Pamela Frazier Grant
  Frazier, Lewis, Sharp, Williams
• Greenberg Family Website
  Dunham, Frazier, Maples, Rhodes, Sharp
• Gregory Family, by Mike Gregory
  Bryant, Garrison, Harrison, Webber
• Hanks/Hankins Genealogy
• Hatfield/McCorkendale
  Adams, Case, Gilmore, Inman, Nance, Vanderpool
• In search of Kimball, Elliot, Braden Family - World Connect File
  Bales, Braden, Brazeal, Johns, McHaffie, Smith
• Jamee & Tina Matthews: Our Family
  Bilyeu, Brown, Clayton, Hannah, Klapp, Long, Mankins, Matthews, Reynolds, Robertson, Strode, Terry, Weatherman, Wheeler
• Jacob Hirning Family Tree
  Hirning
• Jeannie Stafford Dobbs' World Connect File
  Dobbs, Harvill, Maggard, Pruitt / Pruett, Roberts, Stafford, Swearengin
• Jo Dunne's Family
  Coker, Johnson, Price, Turner
• Maggard/Lakey/Walker/Capps/Other Related, by Leanna Ehler
  Lakey, Maggard, Mathews, Roberts, Shipman, Walker
• Maggard, Patrick Family Tree
  Maggard, Patrick
• Family Histories Compiled by Randy McConnell
  McConnell, Inman, Ray, Edwards, Herndon, Johnson, Kenemore, Lawson, Parker
• McHaffie Family, by Mary Lou (McHaffie) Ramsey
  Braden, Brazeal, Casey, Connett, Cummins, Forgey, Harless, Harvill, Hyde, Kissee, Laughlin, Lawson, McHaffie, Ragsdale, Sherrod, Stone, Vaughn
• Nathan Shipman Family of Christian County MO
  Shipman, Hart, Burleson
• Nettie Mae - Hoadley
  Davis, Cook, Green, Leigh, Hoadley
• Old Settlers of Stone County, A Study of the 1860 & 1870 Censuses - Robin Biddle
  Costlow, Horn, Melton, Stone
• Our Virtual Homestead - Out on a Limb
  Cochran, Cutbirth, Davis,Ellingsworth, Fisher, Throgmartin
• Pat's File, by Pat Calton
  Cantrell, Cragg, Ellingsworth, Durham, Gass, Naugle, Noe, Skinner,Thogmartin
• Paul Ulrich Hirning Family, by Connie Flynn-Ketteman
  Hirning
• PictureTrail - Dale Maggard's On-line Photos
  Horton, Luttrull, Maggard
• Pitts of Tennessee, by Monty Pitts
  Estes, Pence
• Pleasant William "Bill" Cave
  Fray, Cave
• The Pumpkin's Roots
  Brown, Ellingsworth, Swearengin, Walker,
• The Shelton Family
  Bilyeu, Shelton, Workman
• Somewhere In Time, by Sandra Burbridge
  Bilyeu, David, Haslip, Hilton, Patrick
• Southeastern Kentucky Roots, by Mirya Glover
  Bilyeu, Cofer, Jones, Lewis, McAdams, Melton
• Steinbrecher Family Tree
  McCauley, McCroskey, Nelson,
• Storm File, by Ken Storm
  Ginger, Hartley, Luster, McDaniel, Shipman
• Taney County, MO Memories
  Jackson, Matthews, Robertson
• Traces of Gold, by James Ray Cavener, Cavner, Creasey, Gold, Smart, Garrison, Robertson, Yoachum
  Gold
• Watermelon Smith, by Phillip Smith
  McTeer, Ghan, Davis, Shipman
• Wingfield & Beyond, by Eugene Edward Brezany, Jr.
  Amsler, Head, Penn, Wallace

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