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R         Abbott, Clayton.

581                  Collection, ca. 1958-1976.

                                    Twenty folders.

 

 

 

These are research materials on Cedar County, Missouri, compiled by Clayton Abbott, a lo­cal historian and author from Stockton.  The material, arranged topically, includes newspaper clip­pings, transcripts of letters and documents, and drafts of Abbott’s writings.  The topics in­clude early settlement, churches, schools, the history of El Dorado Springs, stories of the Gold Rush and the Civil War, post offices, and driving tours of Cedar County.

 

 

Folder 01:  Cedar County churches

Folder 02:  Civil War stories

Folder 03:  Early Settlement

Folder 04:  El Dorado Springs history

Folder 05:  “On the Golden Trail,” a Gold Rush memoir by Felix G. Coats, 1915

Folder 06:  William Davidson Hoff

Folder 07:  Historical notes and quotations from original documents

Folder 08:  Masonic Lodge; Knights of Pythias

Folder 09:  Virginia Olivia Ireson Montgomery

Folder 10:  Newspaper articles by Mary Huff Nance

Folder 11:  Post Offices of Cedar County

Folder 12:  Schools and teachers’ institutes

Folder 13:  “Seventy Years Ago This Week,” from the Cedar County Republican and Stockton Journal

Folder 14:  Tours: Crow’s Mill on Bear Creek/Bovell House/Jericho/White Hare

Folder 15:  Tours: Stockton/Dunnegan Mill/Owen’s Mill/Arnica/Ivy/Cedar Mill/Caplinger Mills

Folder 16:  Tours: Virgil City/Filley/Clintonville/Hackleman Cemetery/Pleasant View/

                        Balm/El Dorado Springs

Folder 17:  Tours:  Umber/Cane Hill/Bona/Hartley

Folder 18:  Unpublished stories:  Bruce-Decker mystery; Keet Kidnapping; The South

Folder 19:  William Wells [Gold Rush] letters

Folder 20:  Jess Yancy Murder

 

 

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