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Category : Chariton County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1256

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Hal E. Pugh
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476690138
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North Carolina's Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes, romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi's biography over time, blurring the line between reality and fiction. The authors of this book, whose family has lived in the Deep River area since the 18th century, are descendants of many of the people who knew Naomi Wise or were involved in her murder investigation. This is the story of a young woman betrayed and how her death gave way to the folk traditions by which she is remembered today. The book sheds light on the plight of impoverished women in early America and details the fascinating inner workings of the Piedmont North Carolina Quaker community that cared for Naomi in her final years and kept her memory alive.

Author: Wanda Ware DeGidio
Publisher: Wanda DeGidio
ISBN: 1401099300
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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: William Earl McLellin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780842523165
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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William Earl McLellin (1806-1883) was born in Smith County, Tennessee. He married Cinthia Ann in 1829 in Illinois. She died in about 1830-1831 in childbirth. In 1831 William joined the LDS Church and went on several missions. In 1832 he was excommunicated for a short time but was rebaptized and, in 1835, was one of the first members of the Twelve Apostles. By this time he had married Emeline Miller they had six children. He and his family settled in Jackson County, Missouri and suffered the persecutions against the Mormons. By late 1836 William and his family had left the LDS Church and settled in Illinois for a short time before returning to Missouri.

Author: Anne Cox Collins
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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James Collins was born 11 March 1821 in Fayette Co., Kentucky. He was the son of James Collins and Mary Christian. James Jr. married Eliza Gaines 7 December 1868 near Auburn, Placer Co., California. They were the parents of four children. Descendants lived primarily in California, Missouri, Kentucky and elsewhere.

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print

Author: United States. Census Office. 5th census, 1830
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Christopher Phillips
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Claiborne Fox Jackson (1806-1862) remains one of Missouri's most controversial historical figures. Elected Missouri's governor in 1860 after serving as a state legislator and Democratic party chief, Jackson was the force behind a movement for the neutral state's secession before a federal sortie exiled him from office. Although Jackson's administration was replaced by a temporary government that maintained allegiance to the Union, he led a rump assembly that drafted an ordinance of secession in October 1861 and spearheaded its acceptance by the Confederate Congress. Despite the fact that the majority of the state's populace refused to recognize the act, the Confederacy named Missouri its twelfth state the following month. A year later Jackson died in exile in Arkansas, an apparent footnote to the war that engulfed his region and that consumed him. In this first full-length study of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Christopher Phillips offers much more than a traditional biography. His extensive analysis of Jackson's rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri's antebellum politics and of Jackson's complex actions in pursuit of his state's secession complete the deeper and broader story of regional identity--one that began with a growing defense of the institution of slavery and which crystallized during and after the bitter, internecine struggle in the neutral border state during the American Civil War. Placing slavery within the realm of western democratic expansion rather than of plantation agriculture in border slave states such as Missouri, Philips argues that southern identity in the region was not born, but created. While most rural Missourians were proslavery, their "southernization" transcended such boundaries, with southern identity becoming a means by which residents sought to reestablish local jurisdiction in defiance of federal authority during and after the war. This identification, intrinsically political and thus ideological, centered--and still centers--upon the events surrounding the Civil War, whether in Missouri or elsewhere. By positioning personal and political struggles and triumphs within Missourians' shifting identity and the redefinition of their collective memory, Phillips reveals the complex process by which these once Missouri westerners became and remain Missouri southerners. Missouri's Confederate not only provides a fascinating depiction of Jackson and his world but also offers the most complete scholarly analysis of Missouri's maturing antebellum identity. Anyone with an interest in the Civil War, the American West, or the American South will find this important new biography a powerful contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century America and the origins--as well as the legacy--of the Civil War.

Author: Marian M. Ohman
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Category : Administrative and political divisions
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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