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United States Missouri  Adair County

Guide to Adair County, Missouri ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records

County Courthouse
County Recorder has marriage and land records from 1840: Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records; Probate Clerk has probate records; County Clerk has school enumeration records

History
Boone remains an iconic figure in American history. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784 by John Filson, making him famous across Europe as the typical all-American frontiersman. An American edition made him equally famous across the United States. After his death, he was frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures—real and legendary—were influential in creating the archetypal Western hero of American folklore. In American popular culture, he is remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen. The epic Daniel Boone mythology often overshadows the historical details of his life.

Boone returned home and on August 14, 1756, he married Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin River Valley whose brother married one of Boone's sisters. The couple initially lived in a cabin on his father's farm. They eventually had 10 children.[14] His son, Nathan Boone, was the first white man born in Kentucky.[15] I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone[16] Boone supported his growing family in these years as a market hunter and trapper, collecting pelts for the fur trade. Almost every autumn, Boone would go on "long hunts", extended expeditions into the wilderness lasting weeks or months. Boone went alone or with a small group of men, accumulating hundreds of deer skins in the autumn, and trapping beaver and otter over the winter. The hunt followed a network of bison migration trails, known as the Medicine Trails. When the long hunters returned in the spring, they sold their take to commercial fur traders.[17] Such frontiersmen often carved messages on trees or wrote their names on cave walls, and Boone's name or initials have been found in many places. One on a tree in present Washington County, Tennessee reads "D. Boon Cilled a. Bar [killed a bear] on [this] tree in the year 1760". A similar carving, preserved in the museum of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, reads "D. Boon Kilt a Bar, 1803." The inscriptions may also be among numerous forgeries of the famous trapper, part of a long tradition of phony Boone relics.

Spouse(s): Rebecca Bryan Boone

Children:
 * 1) James Boone
 * 2) James Boone Jr
 * 3) Judy Boone
 * 4) Israel Boone
 * 5) Susannah Boone Hays
 * 6) Jemima Boone Callaway
 * 7) Levina Boone Scholl
 * 8) Rebecca Boone Goe
 * 9) Daniel Morgan Boone
 * 10) Jessie Bryan Boone
 * 11) William Bryan Boone
 * 12) Nathan Boone

Relatives:
 * Squire Boone (brother)
 * Daniel Morgan (first cousin)
 * Joel Thompson Boone (1st cousin several times removed)

Historical Place

Museum

Wars

Lighthouse

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Parent County
1841--Adair County was created 29 January 1841from Macon County. County seat: Kirksville

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Missouri county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Missouri County Boundary Maps" (1804-1889) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Missouri counties see: http://www.genealogyinc.com/missouri/mo-counties/#courthouse Missouri Counties with Burned Courthouses

Places/Localities
Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog




 * The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all 114 Missouri Counties.

Populated Places
The following are locations in the county:

Neighboring Counties
Knox •  Linn  •  Macon  •  Putnam  •  Schuyler  •  Scotland  •  Sullivan

Land
History

Places

Table

Local Histories

 * Violette, Eugene Morrow. History of Adair County : together with reminiscences and biographical sketches. Kirksville, Missouri : Denslow History Co., 1911.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free); and at HathiTrust (Free)


 * History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler counties, Missouri : from the earliest time to the present. Chicago, Illinois : Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1888.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free); and at Missouri Digital Heritage (Free)


 * John, A. H. Sketch of Adair County, Missouri : plus "patron's business references" by township, telling the section, township and range of their property, where they were born and when they settled in Adair County. S.l. : s.n., 199-?.
 * Online at Family Search (Free); PDF at Adairchs (Free)

History Timeline
Emphasis for this timeline is on events that affected migration, records, or record-keeping. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Missouri Digital Heritage,


 * The area now known as Adair County was first settled in pre-historic times.
 * 1804 November 3 - The Treaty of St. Louis, between the USA and the Sacs and Foxes, stipulated that goods and cash be paid to the Sacs and Foxes.
 * 1825 - The Big Neck War was fought.
 * 1828 - The first white settlement in Adair County.
 * 1838-40 - Survey of Public Lands of Adair County was completed.
 * 1840 - Both settlers and speculators began a rush to the land office.
 * 1841 January 29 - Adair County was founded.
 * 1850 - Immigrants started coming to Adair County in large numbers.

Maps



 * Maps of Missouri (1804-1889)
 * Interactive map of Adair County townships (Histopolis)
 * The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including Adair County.

Civil War

 * - 21st Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company H :- 21st Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company I :- 27th Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company D :- 39th Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company A :- 7th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry (Union), Company H :- 1st Regiment, Enrolled Militia, Missouri National Guard Infantry (Union), Independent Company :- 2nd Provisional Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company M :- 30th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company E :- 50th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company H :- 50th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company I :- 50th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company K

Civil War Battle
The following Civil War Battle was fought in Adair County


 * August 6-9, 1862 = Kirksville

Map showing Civil War battles in Missouri

Newspapers
The Adair County Historical Society has created an obituary and death noticecollection on its website. They have been extrated from the Kirksville Daily Express and cover from March, 1979 through December 31, 2010. There are some additional obituaries taken from the Unionville Republican which are earlier than the listed dates above.

Births

 * 1827 - 1935 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1851 - 1910 Missouri Birth Records, 1851-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $
 * 1866-1867 - Adair County Birth Index, Volume 1, 1866-1867. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Marriages

 * 1802 - 1969 at FamilySearch.org — index/images
 * 1750 - 1920 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1805 - 2002 Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 at Anestry.com
 * 1850 Missouri Marriages to 1850 at Ancestry.com — index $


 * 1841-1878 - Adair County Marriage Book 1 Index 1841-1878. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1871-1884 - Adair County Marriage Books 2 thru 4 Index 1871-1884. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1884-1885 - Adair County Marriage Books 5 and 6 Index 1884-1885. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Deaths

 * Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Death Certificates more than 50 yrs old starting in 1910.
 * 1867 - 1976 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1834 - 1910 Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $

Societies and Libraries
211 South Elson Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501-3466. 1-660-665-6502
 * List of Missouri Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies
 * Adair County Historical Society

Family History Centers



 * Kirksville Missouri Family History Center 2000 E Normal, Kirksville, MO 63501 United States Location Map