Information Sheet

 

 

R            Shockley, J. Milton, 1893-1976.

643                  Collection, n.d.

                                    One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

This is “What They Said,” a collection of stories and anecdotes regarding residents of Ma­ries County, Missouri, by Dr. J. Milton Shockley, a local historian and past president of the Ma­ries County Historical Society.

 

James Milton Shockley was descended from a prominent pioneer family of Gasconade and Maries counties in Missouri.  An attorney, he was also keenly interested in local history.  As presi­dent of the Maries County Historical Society, he was instrumental in the publication of Ev­erett M. King’s History of Maries County (Cape Girardeau, Mo.: Ramfre Press, 1963), the manu­script of which had been completed but never published by the author.

 

“What They Said” is a collection of anecdotes regarding some early residents of Maries County and Vienna, the county seat, with emphasis on their “rare wit and their manner of ex­pres­sion.”  The work is not dated, but seems to have been compiled in the 1940s or 1950s.

 

 

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