Hi my name is Linda and I am the new County Host for Carroll County.  I have done extensive research in this county along with other family members.  I will be posting my own families information as I can.  My father's family lived in both Carroll, Ray, and other Counties and some of the information may possibly be duplicated.  I will welcome any family data (along with the original source information), just please do not send me family trees as I do not have the time to go thru and search for the older information.  The families that I personally will be adding is Standley/Stanley, Helm, Ashby, Winfrey, Humphries, Trotters, Addis, Kerr, among many others.  As I live in Oklahoma I will not be able to do any personal research for you, but hopefully can steer you in the right direction.  One of my family members that I will be placing alot of information on is that of John and Rebecca Standley who came from North Carolina in 1818 to what would soon be known as Carrollton, Carroll, Missouri.  He and his family deeded over land to the city of Carrollton for the town, the courthouse square was built on a portion of this land.  I have a love of history and family and I hope that your research takes you to where your families feet have trod and that your own path will soon be followed by those who will search for you in years to come.  Alot of my information I have obtained on a trip to Carroll County a few years back, plus I am in contact with many distant cousins who have helped compile this information.  A special thank you to Don Winfrey and June Standley with alot of the information contained.  Please feel free to email me at lscraig1951@yahoo.com with any questions, submissions, or places to look. 

I would like to dedicate this page to my great-great-great grandparents, Hugh and Delilah (Ashby) Standley.  They were both from pioneer families of Carroll County, Missouri.  Hugh was one of the sons of John and Rebecca (Shinn) Standley. Deliliah was the daughter of Jessie Ashby and Sarah Sally Lucas Ashby.  I am still searching for information on Hugh's burial, some believe he was buried in Ray County.  The picture to the right was sent to me by an older relative L.D. Thomas and is the only picture that has been found, none have been found for Hugh.  Hugh was born in 1801 in Wilkes, North Carolina and died July 1841 in Ray County, Missouri.  Deliliah was born August 19, 1808 in Hopkins County, Kentucky and died November 2, 1880 in or near Bosworth, Carroll County, Missouri.  She is buried in Wharton Cemetery.  My family line extends thru her son Bartlett Christopher (Tack) Standley.  For some reason the children of the next generation dropped the letter "d" from their last name, so many of the Stanley's are actually descendants of John and Rebecaa Standley and their children.  The children of Hugh and Deliliah are: Larkin, Sarah, Elvira, Bartlett, Elizabeth and George.  Deliliah remarried after her first husband's death to James Gentry, she had two children by him Margaret and Hannah.  None of her family can locate any information on her children by James Gentry.

A Family Historians Prayer Please help guide my feet to follow my ancestors feet. From Rebels against Union to the United States of America. Give me the strength in my bones to search for all of those headstones. I give you the praise when those lost is finally raised. Let my eyes stay clear and bright even after hours of working late at night. Checking and re-checking under dim light Until I know that I have everthiny right. Please let that little record I need be on the top of those deeds. Then I am very happy in deed For all those pages I did in deed read. Please guide my working hands through another book made by man. Passed down from clerk to clerk then stored  just to make me work. Let my ancestors not have to do what I had to do. written by Linda (Dyer) Craig

Thank you for my Rebel and Union roots,  to become the County of Carroll in the fair state of Missouri Rest to all of the loved ones who have gone on before, and laid in rest in Carroll County.

Updated information on November 7, 2008:  Oak Hill Cemetery, Famous People

Updated Information on November 17, 2008:  Hanavan Cemetery, Civil War Union Veterans, WW1 Veterans, Bernard Hanavan Tribute Page, Letters from the Past.

Undated information:  November 19, 2008 Winfrey Cemetery, Hanavan Cemetery and added Richard Pope Helm Tribute page

Misc Information (Nicknames from the past) (Carroll County 1896)

Carroll County, Missouri was named after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence.   He was a cousin of Charles Carroll, the Barrister, and Daniel Carroll, a Delegate and a Senator from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., September 19, 1737; attended the Jesuits’ College of Bohemia at Hermans Manor, Md., and the College of St. Omer in France; studied civil law at the College of Louis le Grand in Rheims, and common law in London; returned to Annapolis, Md., in 1765; delegate to the revolutionary convention of Maryland in 1775; Continental commissioner to Canada in 1776; member of the Board of War 1776-1777; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1776-1778; again elected to the Continental Congress in 1780, but declined to serve; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; member, State senate 1777-1800; elected to the United States Senate in 1789; reelected in 1791 and served from March 4, 1789, to November 30, 1792, when, preferring to remain a State senator, he resigned because of a law passed by the Maryland legislature disqualifying the members of the State senate who held seats in Congress; retired to private life in 1801; involved in establishing the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in 1828; died in Baltimore, Md., November 14, 1832; at the time of his death was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence; interment in the chapel of Doughoregan Manor, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Md.    Copy of his signature on the Declaration. of Independence.

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