Daviess County, Missouri Genealogy

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Parent County
Daviess County was created in 1836 from Ray County.

Populated Places
Arthur Paul Moser has short descriptions of towns in Daviess county, many of them no longer extant.

Cemeteries
Steve Reid's page has about 70 transcriptions of Daviess county cemeteries. Many of these transcriptions are current only to the 1970s. The page also includes a historical description of all known Daviess county cemeteries and directions to their location.

Lanita Sconce Smith's page sorts Daviess county burials by name.

Find A Grave has 64 Daviess county cemetery transcriptions.

Here is another page of Daviess county cemeteries for Clear Creek, Creekmore, Enyart, Everly, Foley, Frazier, Guthrie, Hays, Hemry/Payne, Hill, Lick Fork, Lock Springs, McCrary, Muddy, Old Union, Pell, Pilot Grove 1, Reid (partial), Trosper, Trotten, and Weldon.

Here are transcriptions of the Winston and Muddy cemeteries. Other transcriptions of Muddy cemetery are here and here.

The Missouri Tombstone Transcription project has links to McCrary, Lick Fork, Creekmore, and Old Scotland cemeteries.

Brenda Abplanalp and Virgil Givens abstracted the Wooderson cemetery.

Church
Trails.com has a partial list of historic and current churches in Daviess county.

Land
The Missouri Secretary of State sponsors a site with land patents for Daviess county 1831-1969.

Vital Records
Marriages

Daviess county marriages 1837 - 1899.

Deaths

The Missouri Secretary of State has death records from 1910-1957; a few earlier. Some certificates were never completed or filed, others have creative spelling. The information is only as good as the informant could recall at the time.

Societies and Libraries
There is a Daviess county Genealogical Society. The public library in Gallatin also has genealogical records. Additional libraries with Daviess county records are the Missouri State Historical Library in Columbia, MO and the Library in Jefferson City, MO.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog.