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Saline County, Missouri
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Saline County, Missouri
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and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers
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Established: Nov. 25, 1820, effective January 1, 1821
Parent County: Cooper County
County Seat: Marshall
Named After: The region's numerous salt springs
Settled primarily by migrants from the Upper South during the nineteenth
century, this county was in the region bordering the Missouri River known as
"Little Dixie". In the antebellum years it had plantations
supported by enslaved workers. One-third of the county population was African
American at the start of the American Civil War, but their proportion of the
residents has declined dramatically to little more than five percent. The first settlers were hunters,
interested only in trapping and catching wild game which was plenteous in Saline
County. The families that came later made homes and
farmed the rich bottom lands. They
settled along the Missouri River in towns such as
Arrow Rock. From Sappington
Cemetery to Ridge
Park Cemetery
in Marshall history abounds, from
cities, to villages, to unincorporated communities the history is
unending. “Many a Saline county
pioneer, as he sat by his fireside in the early days, felt his blood run cold
and his heart stand still as the piercing scream of the panther was borne on
the wings of the night wind through the forest to his lonely cabin.” [Past and
Present of Saline County, Missouri (1910) Chapter IV, Wild Animals and Fish,
page 71] Those days are past, but the stories of those who settled the
land are forever etched on the pages of Saline County History, buried in the
cemeteries, recorded in its records, written about in the newspapers and
hopefully enough of that history can be placed on this Genealogy Trail to
help all who visit find what they are searching for……..a glimpse into the
past which is Saline County, Missouri.
Cities * Blackburn (Part of it is in Lafayette County) * Emma (Part of it is in Lafayette County) * Malta Bend * Marshall (county seat) * Miami
* Nelson * Slater * Sweet Springs *
Villages * Arrow Rock * Gilliam
* Grand Pass * Mount Leonard *
[Unincorporated communities] Blue Lick * Elmwood * Fairville * Hardeman
* Herndon * Marshall Junction * McAllister Springs * Napton * New Frankfort *
Norton * Orearville * Pennytown * Ridge Prairie * Saline City * Salt Springs
* Shackleford * Sharon *
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COUNTY DATA
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Biographies
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Birth
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church Histories and Records
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County Records
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Death
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Family
Bibles and Records
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History
Topics
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Marriage Records
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Military Records
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Miscellaneous
Records
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Newspaper Gleanings
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Obituaries and Death Records
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School Records
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Wills
and Probate Documents
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Saline County Officials
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Website Updates: April 27, 2020 added the History
of Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, and the 115 souls buried at Sappington
Cemetery. April 17, 2020 Added Sappington Negro Cemetery to the
cemeteries list, this is a
historical cemetery containing 186 souls. Added Sappington Cemetery Nelson, Saline
County, Missouri where One
person, Julia Seldon Gails Brown 1867-1945 is buried.
February 20, 2020, added Early
Saline County
School information under School
Records Link, information is dated from 1817 to 1908.; added information of First Contract with
a School Teacher, August 9, 1937.
February 19, 2020: Added the following obituaries: Carolyn J. Nall Triebsch, Theodore Joseph
Triebsch Jr., Joseph F. (Bud) Parker, William Paul Simmons, Wanda
Cunningham, Dorothy D. Wilson,
Pamela Wilson Coslet, Juanita P. Vaught, Lindwood “Woody” Butler Sr., Dora Lou
Campbell, J.W. (Bill) McGraw, Hershel E. Campbell, Roy Kenneth Smith,
William L. McGraw, Genevieve Woodrow Vaught, Mary Jane Smith, Rose Ellen
Stroup, Marie A. Mertensmeyer.
February 13, 2020: Added the following information, county
officials 1826-1908; Representatives, Probate Judges, Coroners, County
Attorneys, Public Administrators, Assessors, Sheriffs, Treasurers, County
Clerk, Commissioner Schools, Recorders, Surveyors, Collectors, Judges
County Court.
February 10, 2020, updated obituary listings from A-Z rather
than by individual names for faster searching. Also added the following Obituaries: George Parker, Floyd A. Parker, Rev.
Luther Paul Parker, Minnie Olla Irene Coates Parker. W.E.
Brooks, and Franklin Brooks,
Sinthia Brooks Coates.
February 9, 2020 added
Saline County Early Marriages dating from 1820 to 1844: Source:
Past and Present of Saline County Missouri; by Hon. William Barclay
Napton; B. F. Bowen & Company, Publishers; 1910; Chapter 6 pages
101-103.
Cemeteries: Heath Creek
Baptist Church,
Transcribed by GT Transcription Team
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