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R         Roy Nelson Canning Company.

1029                Records, 1907-1993.

                                    One volume and forty-two folders.

 

 

 

These are records of the Roy Nelson Canning Company, a large tomato-canning concern especially active in Stone, Taney, and Douglas counties in Missouri.  The collection consists of land records, deeds, financial statements, insurance papers, and records for individual factories, mostly for operations in Stone County, Missouri.

 

 

Volume 1:  Ledger, 1936-1950

 

This a ledger showing expenses and credits for the factories at Abesville, Crane, Elsey, Hurley, and Quail Spur.  Individual pages show figures for tomatoes, fertilizer, cans, labels, and crates, labor, salaries, insurance, interest payments, and miscellaneous accounts.

 

        

Folders 1-17:  Abstracts of title and deeds, 1907-1984

 

F. 01:  Boone County (Ark.), abstract of title, 1919

F. 02:  Ava (Mo.), Central Subdivision, deeds, 1924-1926

F. 03:  North Crane (Mo.), Gipson Addition, deed, 1948

F. 04:  North Crane (Mo.), Luscombe Heights Addition, abstracts, deeds, and tax receipts, 1914-1957

F. 05:  North Crane (Mo.), Park Addition, deed, 1925

F. 06:  Stone County (Mo.), Town of To-Ho-Sho-Nee, correspondence and deeds, 1936, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1984

F. 07:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 9 & 10, T. 24, R. 23, abstract of title, 1918

F. 08:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 15, T. 24, R. 23, abstract of title, 1915

F. 09:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 17, T. 24, R. 23, abstract of title, 1919, 1927

F. 10:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 32, T. 24, R. 23, abstract of title, 1919

F. 11:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 22, T. 24, R. 24, deeds, 1917, 1920

F. 12:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 29, T. 25, R. 22 and Sec. 15, T. 24, R. 23, abstract of title, 1917

F. 13:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 5, T. 25, R. 24, deed, 1926

F. 14:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 9 & 16 & 17, T. 25, R. 24, deed, 1923

F. 15:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 30, T. 26, R. 23, deeds, 1913, 1924

F. 16:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 17, T. 26, R. 24, abstract of title, deed, contract, and lease, 1916-1950

F. 17:  Stone County (Mo.), Sec. 33, T. 26, R. 24, abstract of title and deeds, 1907-1964

 

Folders 18-23:  Records of individual factories, 1930-1953

 

F. 18:  Abesville Factory, correspondence and bill of sale, 1945-1950

F. 19:  Abesville and Crane factories, bill of sale, 1951

F. 20:  Crane Factory, bills of sale, lease, mortgage and notes, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1940

F. 21:  Elsey Factory, deeds, notes, and correspondence, 1930, 1951

F. 22:  Hurley Factory, contracts for sale, 1944

F. 23:  Quail Spur Factory, deeds, bills of sale, 1930, 1936, 1953

 

 

Folders 24-38:  Financial, insurance, and tax records, 1923-1993

 

F. 24:  Financial statements (Roy Nelson), 1923-1929

F. 25:  Financial statements, (Porter S. Lucas), 1942-1977

F. 26:  Insurance, 1948, 1950, 1974

F. 27:  Insurance, 1980-1989

F. 28:  Insurance, 1990-1993

F. 29:  Lumac Tool & Manufacturing Company, 1955-1959

F. 30:  Tax receipts, 1920-1928

F. 31:  Tax receipts, 1931-1939

F. 32:  Tax receipts, 1940-1949

F. 33:  Tax receipts, 1950-1959

F. 34:  Tax receipts, 1960-1969

F. 35:  Tax receipts, 1970-1979

F. 36:  Tax receipts, 1980-1989

F. 37:  Tax receipts; car registration, 1990-1992

F. 38:  Tax receipts, Smythe Special, 1923-1943

 

Folders 39-42:  Miscellaneous papers, 1917-1985

 

F. 39:  Miscellaneous correspondence, 1935-1968

F. 40:  Lucas, Grace, will, 1962

F. 41:  Lucas, Porter S., will, 1985

F. 42:  Moore, Will and Sinda, marriage certificate and cemetery deed, 1917, 1956

 

 

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