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R         Cayce, Milton Pleasant, 1804-1888.

1039                Record book, ca. 1870.

                                    One volume.

 

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This is a bound volume containing information about land parcels in Madison, Reynolds, Wayne, Iron, and Sainte Genevieve counties in Missouri, and miscellaneous clippings on such subjects as horticulture and cholera.  The item has been attributed to Milton P. Cayce because his name occurs most often therein.

 

The first pages of this volume contain clippings on various subjects.  The only definite dates are from 1869 and 1870.  A clipping on Page 1 concerns the death in New York City on 29 November 1869 of James Milton Covington, who was 28 years old.  The notice said that there would be a funeral service at the Presbyterian Church in Farmington, Mo., followed by a “private burial” at the “ground of M. P. Cayce.”  Covington was probably the son of a former pastor at that church, of which Milton P. Cayce was a prominent member.  Another clipping contains an ac­count of a meeting of the “Rural Club of New-York,” presided over by Horace Greeley, that took place in 1867 or 1872.  Other clippings concerned such subjects as horticulture, cures for cholera, and a tribute to Albert Sidney Johnston.

 

The latter pages that were used were assigned to lists of real estate parcels, arranged by county and then by “Original Claimant(s).”  Included are acreages and legal descriptions of the parcels, several of which had M. P. Cayce as the original claimant.  The parcels were located in Madison, Reynolds, Wayne, Iron, and Sainte Genevieve counties in southeastern Missouri.

 

There is no clear evidence of the ownership or the purpose of the volume.

 

 

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