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Iron County Historical Society Newsletter

Summer 2014
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 183
Ironton, MO 63650
E-Mail: ironcohissoc@hotmail.com


Iron County Historical Society
Founded 1974

Museum Address
Whistle Junction Train Depot
Highway 21, Arcadia, MO
Website: www.rootsweb.com/~moichs
Telephone: (573) 546-3513

Next Meeting: 2 p.m., Sunday, July 20th
First Presbyterian Church, Corner of Knob & Reynolds, Ironton
~ Program ~
The Chouteau Family by Randall Cox
~Refreshments by ~
Dee Thomlison



John Abney
I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4
th
of July. I also
hope that you will be able to join us at our quarterly
meeting on July 20
th
when Randall Cox will present his
program on the Chouteau family. St. Louis is
celebrating its 250
th
birthday this year and the Chouteau
family played a large part in the citys founding and
early history.

Our Facebook page passed another milestone this
quarter when we surpassed 400 followers. If you
havent liked it already, I would encourage you to go
there and take a look.

The Societys Board of Directors is currently exploring
new approaches to fundraising. While we hope to
publish a new pictorial history of the county within the
coming two years, we are still exploring avenues to
generate operating funds in the mean time. Among the
ideas being explored are a raffle, a trivia contest, a
white-elephant sale, and a spaghetti dinner. If you have
any ideas that you would like to share, please contact
any of our board members or leave a message on our
Facebook page.

Finally, with the summer schedule in place we need as
many volunteers as we can muster to work at the
Visitors Center / Museum. If you can spare a day or
two a month, please contact Wilma Cofer.

Presidents Message
Museum Directors Report
Wilma Cofer
New Accessions:
Records from Ladies VFW Auxilliary.
Record/Minute Book of Town of Pilot Knob, MO
with dates from 8/21/1882-3/5/1915 from Estate of
John W. Fahland.
Donations / Memorials Received:
Donations in the amount of $1,051.79 which
included $170 in memorials for Loren DePew.
Visitors:
March 99 visitors from 4 states + MO.
April 316 visitors from 14 states + MO, & Canada.
May 352 visitors from 19 states + MO, Canada &
China.
June 301 visitors from 15 states.


Membership Chairmans Report
Wilma Cofer
We currently have 103 members and six exchange
members.
New member(s): Debra Allen, Ironton, MO; Linda
Civey, The Franklin House, Ironton, MO; Jackie
Huffman, Ironton, MO; Michael A. Keathley, Terre
Haute, IN; and Ellen (Keathley) McCullough, Brazil, IN;
(both gift memberships from Allen R. Keathley.)



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Editors note: We are pleased to publish the second part of a two-part article on Civil War soldier, Robert Payne Byrd
submitted by Iron County Historical Society member, Dr. Kenneth E. Byrd of Indianapolis, IN. As always, we welcome
these submissions and hope that other members will consider submitting their stories as well.

Robert Payne Byrd (Part 2 of 2)
by Kenneth E. Byrd, Ph.D.
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Sometime after the battle of Prairie Grove, Payne Byrd apparently went AWOL, and according to his CSA service
record, was captured by Federal soldiers somewhere in Oregon County, MO on January 28, 1863. His service records
also state that he was then sent to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, MO, from West Plains, Howell County, MO
on February 3, 1863. He arrived in St. Louis and was received at Gratiot Prison on February 8, 1863. On February 11,
1863, Pvt. Robert Payne Byrd was "examined" by Federal Colonel (?) M.V.G. Strong and a Captain A. Olsen (?) there at
Gratiot Prison as a POW. This interrogation document is on microfilm at the National Archives and reads as follows:
R.P. Byrd // Madison Co.// Gratiot// Pr of War //Pri. Miss. Reg. CSA // Febr 2 // Pris of War for Exchange//
D. // April 14 (unintelligible) // Sent to Washington //Aprl 2/13 (?) // Exd Feb 11, 1863//M.V.G. Strong Capt
(unintelligible) // Pr of War // Not willing to be exchanged. Examination of R.P. Byrd of Madison County,
Missouri. // Taken the 11th day of February, 1863. //Confined at Gratiot Street Prison. // Taken by M.V.G. Strong
(signature in his apparent handwriting) //Capt. A.A. Olsen (?) (signature in his apparent handwriting)
Statement of R.P. Byrd, a Prisoner at the Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, made the 11th day of February, 1863.
My age is 30 years. // I live in Madison County, Missouri. // I was born in Calaway (sic) County. I was captured in
Oregon County on or about the 29th day of January, 1863. The cause of my surrendering had been with Col. White,
Hindmans command. I joined him voluntarily (sic). I was in arms against the United States, and was a [rank]
Private in Capt. Ashleys* Company, Whites Regiment. I was (blank space here) sworn into the Rebel service
about the 6th day of July, 1862 by D. Lanius in Oregon County, Missouri for 3 years or during the War. When
surrendered, I was first taken to West Plains and remained there 5 days. Houston and Rolla 1 day and was not
examined there by (blank space here) and was sent to Gratiot Prison about the 3 day of February, 1863. I never took
the oath of allegiance to the United States, about the (blank space here) day of (blank space here) 186 (blank space
here). Subscribed by the Prisoner, the day first named, in my presence.
Payne Byrd (signature in his apparent handwriting)
M.V.G. Strong (signature in his apparent handwriting)
Capt. (unintelligible) (signature in his apparent handwriting) {*KEB note: probably Captain Lashley as per Richard
Callison MO CSA pension documents}
The Prisoner makes additional statements as follows, in answer to questions:
1. How many times have you been in arms during the rebellion? Once.
2. What commanders have you served under? Col. White.

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Ken is an Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, kbyrd@iupui.edu, Dept.
of Anatomy, MS-5035, Indiana School of Medicine, 635 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5120.

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3. What battles or skirmishes have you been in? None.
4. Did you have arms, or were you out on picket, or what part did you take in the action? Gun. Been on Picket duty
once.
5. Have you ever furnished arms, or ammunition, horse, provisions, or any kind of supplies to any rebels? State
when, where and how often. No.
6. Was there any rebel camp near you, that you did not give notice of to the U.S. troops? No.
7. Have you ever been with any one taking or pressing horses, arms, or other property? No.
8. Are you enrolled in the E.M.M. -- loyal or disloyal? No.
9. Are you a southern sympathizer? I am not. (first answer of Not as much as I was. crossed out)
10. Do you sincerely desire to have the southern people put down in this war, and the authority of the U.S.
Government over them restored? Yes, I do.
11. How many slaves have you? None.
12. Have you a wife -- how many children. Yes. None.
13. What is your occupation? Carpenter.
14. What relatives have you in the rebellion? None that I know of.
15. Have you ever been in any Rebel camp? If so, whose -- when -- where -- and how long? What did you do? Did
you leave it, or were you captured in it? Yes. Whites. July 1862. Different Places. Seven months. Soldier. I left
it, became disatisfied (sic) with the laws of the Southern Confederacy. I do not want to be exchanged. Willing to
take the Oath, & give a Bond for $1000. Not willing to enroll.
Payne Byrd (signature in his apparent handwriting)
At least some of Pvt. Robert Payne Byrd's answers in the examination document above are likely examples of what
Michael Fellman, author of Inside War, the Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989),
describes as "survival lies" that were used on both sides during the chaos in Missouri between 1861-1865. Payne may
have been telling his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear with hopefully no punishment meted out to him
for his answers. His crossed out "Not as much as I was" answer to question No. 9 above suggests there was indeed some
coercion by his Federal captors. His answer of being born in Callaway County may have been an attempt to shield his
parents back in Stewart County, TN which was then actively occupied by Federal troops stationed nearby at both Ft.
Henry and Ft. Donelson. Similarly, he may have been trying to protect his older brother, Pvt. George Wesley Byrd who
had served in Co. B (Taylor's) of the 1st Tennessee Artillery, CSA at Ft. Henry on February 6, 1862.
The last notation on his CSA service records states that Pvt. Robert P. Boyd (sic), Co. F, White's Regt. appears on a
monthly report of Gratiot Prison from March 1 to 31, 1863. The last notation reads: "Where captured -- Oregon Co. MO.
When captured -- Jan. 28, 1863. Received -- Feb. 8, 1863. Discharged -- Mar. 6, 1863. Remarks -- Small Pox Hospital."
As best as can be determined at the time of this writing, Payne Byrd contracted smallpox and was removed to the so-
called Small Pox Island (McPike's Island) in the middle of the Mississippi River and offshore from the Alton, Illinois

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POW camp. It is assumed he died there and was buried in a mass grave with other CSA POWs who died from smallpox at
that time. No records yet found indicate exactly when he died or where. Interestingly, the Bible belonging to his father,
John Wesley "Jack" Byrd, back in Stewart Co. TN records his death as being on April 7, 1864. The exact date and place
of Pvt. Robert Payne Byrd's death is still unknown to any of his current relatives.



Trivia Contest Answers

Here are the answers to last quarters trivia contest:
















By John Abney



Original Plat Map of Ironton

Tucked away in its protective sleeve is a significant
piece of Iron Countys history, the original plat mat map
of the city of Ironton (see next page for a reduced size
copy.) The map was submitted to the County Clerk,
John F. T. Edwards on 20 October 1857. Written in
Edwards handwriting at the right side of the map are the
words:

State of Missouri
County of Iron

Be it remembered that Hiram N. Tong who is
personally known to the undersigned Clerk of
the Circuit Court within and for said County of
Iron to be the same person who executed and
signed the within and foregoing platt [sic] to the
town of Ironton in the County of Iron and the
state of Missouri as party thereto this day
appeared before me and acknowledged that he
executed and delivered the same as his voluntary
act and deed for the use and purposes therein
contained. In witness thereof I John F. Edwards
Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the
County of Iron and state of Missouri have here
unto subscribed my name and affirmed my
private seal at office in the town of Ironton this
20
th
day of October A. D. 1857

John F. T. Edwards Clerk


Pictured at the upper right of the map is a view of Pilot
Knob Mountain with the words, View of Pilot Knob
from Ironton written below it. Below that is an arrow
pointing to the north and below that is the Great Seal of
the State of Missouri.

At the bottom of the map, the building depicted on the
left is described underneath the lithograph as the Court
House. Note that at the time the map was filed,
Ironton had only been selected as the county seat the
month before and the actual court house was yet to be
designed. The man and woman depicted on either side
of the steam locomotive are not identified. The building
at the bottom of the map on the right side is described
beneath it as Ironton House.

Note that this is only one of the maps recently scanned
and preserved for us by the Missouri State Archives.
Other maps include the east and west additions to
Ironton, the east addition to Pilot Knob, multiple plats
for Des Arc and Shaverville, and a plat map for
Wilsonville.
1. July 4, 1858
2. Colonel
3. Fort Hove, aka Fort Curtis
4. Vulcan was named for the Vulcan Iron
Works in St. Louis, where the iron from the
mines there was taken
5. John VanLear Logan
6. Jerome C. Berryman
7. Des Arc
8. After submitting nearly 200 possible
names, postal officials finally said,
Enough
9. Viburnum
10. Abraham Lincoln (1860)
From the
Collection


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Social Welfare in Missouri and the Iron County
Poor Farm (Part 3 of 3)
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By John M. Abney
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Data for the five years from 1895 through 1899,
show that Iron Countys total expenditures were
$59,360.27 or just under an average of $11,900 per
year.
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Of the total expenditures, almost 27% was
spent on supporting the countys poor. A breakout
of these expenditures is shown in Table 1 below.

Category Amount % of Total
Expenditures
For Poor (County Farm)

$5,826.51

9.82%

For Insane in Asylum (county
patients)
$6,876.50

11.58%

For Insane on County Farm

$2,600.40

4.38%

Repairs / Supplies for County
Farm
$263.01

0.44%

Insurance on County Farm (5
years)
$71.25

0.12%

Deaf Students (transportation
& clothing)
$247.44

0.42%

Table 1 - Iron County's Spending on Poor 1895 - 1899
Missouris shift from outdoor (direct) relief to
indoor (institutional) relief was not accidental nor
was it atypical of national trends. Not unlike times
past, or today for that matter, the able-bodied poor
requesting assistance were looked upon with some
degree of contempt by society in general. In the last
quarter of the 19
th
century, theories such as those
espoused by Herbert Spencer,

the English civil engineer turned philosopher,
who coined the phrase survival of the fittest
and others who applied the Darwinian theory of
evolution to social conditions and thought.
Social Darwinism, as it was called, [was] a
happy union of laissez-faire economics and the
doctrine of the struggle for existence and survival
of the fittest, became the prevailing philosophy

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Continued from Spring 2014 edition which is now available
on the Iron County Historical Societys Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/IronCountyHistoricalSocietyMO
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jabney@hughes.net, 3792Highway F, Annapolis, MO 63620
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Total expenditures do not include cash on hand. Source of
these data are the Annual Reports of Receipts and
Expenditures for Iron County as published in the Iron County
Register in March of each year from 1896 1900. Individual
dates of publication include 5 March 1896; 4 March 1897; 10
March 1898; 9 March 1899; and 8 March 1900.
of the era. If as the Spencerians claimed,
competition was the law of life, there was no
remedy for poverty other than self-help.
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As if to corroborate this shift to indoor relief, a
study under the supervision of Thomas J. Riley of
the St. Louis School of Social Economy was
conducted from 1908 to 1910 and concludes that:

The report is a terrible indictment of county
outdoor relief in Missouri. The main concerns
are:
1. That the judges of the county courts, who are
the poor relief officers, are usually without
knowledge of the conditions and needs of those
who are relieved and hence:
2. That the money and other relief given are
often direct encouragements to indolence,
drunkenness, and immorality, and go directly to
support the able bodied beggars, prostitutes and
criminals.
3. That a surprisingly large proportion of the
relieved are feeble-minded, or are in distress
because of some feeble-minded relatives, and
that county money encourages such persons to
live at large and propagate their kind, or at least
makes it possible for them to do so.
4. That such unconsidered and misdirected
charity, besides adding to the burden of
pauperism, defectiveness, vice, and crime, fails
to give relief adequately or wisely to the needy
who apply, and gives no relief whatever to many
who are most in need but are least willing to ask
for help.
5


Thus, by the end of the 19
th
century and the
beginning of the 20th century, social welfare with
the exception of indoor relief was mainly a private
rather than public concern.
6
Fundamental changes
in what was then the American way of life would
soon change this view and, for better or worse,
usher in what would develop into modern social
welfare policy.

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Walter I. Trattner, From Poor Law to Welfare State: A
History of Social Welfare in America (New York: The Free
Press, 1974) 81.
5
George A. Warfield & Thomas J. Riley, Outdoor Relief in
Missouri: A Study of Its Administration by County Officials
(New York: Survey Associates, 1915), iii iv.
6
Trattner, 179.

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The early years of the 20
th
century saw more and
more Americans moving away from the family farm
and into its rapidly industrializing cities.
Immigrants, in many cases, were used to fuel the
need for labor. Overcrowding, political corruption,
abhorrent working conditions and scandalous living
conditions would usher in the golden age of early
20
th
century muckraking with authors and
investigative journalists taking on all manner of
social issues of the day. Thus, the Progressive Era
was born. This reform also extended to the field of
social welfare, where, After two decades of
activity, the advocates of more public assistance
succeeded in redressing the balance [of private
versus public assistance], at least to an extent. At
the same time, they laid the foundation of many of
the important public welfare developments of the
1930s.
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Perhaps the most significant result with regard to
social welfare, at the federal level, was the creation
of the U.S. Childrens Bureau in 1912. Upon its
creation, the U.S. Childrens Bureau received an
initial appropriation of $25,640 and was Charged
with the duty of investigating and reporting upon
all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and
child life among all classes of our people.
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Beyond becoming the authoritative source on child
welfare, the creation of the Childrens Bureau
marked a significant change in federal policy. It
was the first time the federal government
recognized not merely the rights of children but also
the actual need to create a permanent agency to at
least study, if not protect them.
9


Back in Missouri, the focus at the turn of the 20
th

century was squarely on indoor (institutional) relief.
Building on the foundation established in the 19
th

century with the creation of state hospitals, schools
for the blind and deaf, and its system of almshouses
(poor farms), new indoor relief initiatives focused
on veterans, the mentally impaired or epileptic
children, and tubercular patients.

The Confederate and Federal homes were initially
established by private groups and were dedicated to

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Trattner, 180.
8
Ibid., 183.
9
Ibid., 183 184.
providing care for indigent veterans, their wives, or
their widows.
10
The Confederate home was located
near Higginsville and the Federal home at St. James
with both coming under state control in 1897.
11
An
interesting side note is that unlike the Missouri poor
residing in almshouses or poor farms, poor veterans
residing in Missouris veterans homes did not lose
their right to vote.
12


Missouris first state school for poor mentally
challenged and epileptic persons was established
near Marshall in 1900, though it was initially called
as a Colony for the feebleminded and epileptic.
13

The poor at the school were known as state
patients and counties, since 1919, were required to
pay $5.00 per month for each of their residents sent
to the school.
14


Missouris Sanatorium for the care of patients with
tuberculosis opened near Mt. Vernon in 1907.
15
As
with county insane patients at the state hospitals,
counties sending tubercular patients to the state
sanatorium were responsible for covering the
patients transportation as well as their care.
16


As the number of special classes receiving indoor
relief continued to grow, a gradual movement
towards increased state funding and decreased
county support of its institutionalized poor also
grew. As previously mentioned, county support to
its deaf students attending the state school was
limited to providing adequate clothes and
transportation. The countys liability for their poor
veterans entering either of the state veterans homes
was limited to their transportation to the homes.
17


At the same time as the needs of special classes
were being met with institutionalized care, support
and sentiment were growing towards some groups
receiving outdoor (direct) relief. An outgrowth of
the thinking of the Progressive Era, Missouri was at

10
Fern Boan, A History of Poor Relief Legislation and
Administration in Missouri (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1941), 108.
11
Ibid., 108, 109.
12
Ibid., 110.
13
Ibid., 111, 112.
14
Ibid., 112.
15
Ibid., 114.
16
Ibid., 114.
17
Ibid., 108.

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the forefront of this movement in 1911 when it
passed the first widows pension law (though it only
applied to Jackson County), An act to provide for
the partial support of poor women whose husbands
are dead or convicts, when such women are mothers
of children under the age of 14 years.
18

Pensions for the blind followed in 1921.
19


While attitudes towards outdoor relief were
changing gradually, it took the Great Depression
and the resulting New Deal era programs to shape
Americas modern social welfare policy.

The stock market crash of 1929, and the long,
deep depression that followed, hit the nation with
a jarring impact. Some 13 to 15 million workers
lost their jobs. Banks were closed, some
permanently. Many citizens lost their life savings.
Factories were idle. Stores had few customers.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers were forced off
their land. Numerous others lost their homes.
Huddled figures shuffling despondently in bread
lines or at soup kitchens testified to destitution
and suffering to an extent unknown in American
history.
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Initial reaction to the crisis was slow, but as private
charities, local governments, and even the states
became overwhelmed in their efforts to provide
relief, the people looked to the federal government
for help. The election of Franklin Roosevelt in
1932 marked the beginning of that change. The
alphabet soup of public relief and aid programs that
followed (e.g., TERA [Temporary Emergency
Relief Administration], CCC [Civilian Conservation
Corps], WPA [Works Progress Administration] and
many more) embodied Roosevelts philosophy and
words that, Aid to jobless citizens must be
extended by government, not as a matter of charity,
but as a matter of social duty.
21


Among the New Deal legislation with the longest
lasting impact was the Social Security Act of 1935.

As finally adopted, the Social Security Act was an
omnibus measure which, through two lines of

18
Ibid., 194, Trattner, 189.
19
Boan, 126.
20
Trattner, 228, 229.
21
Ibid., 232.
defense contributory social insurance and public
assistance aimed at preventing destitution. It
provided for old-age insurance and pensions to the
needy aged, unemployment insurance, public
assistance to dependent mothers with children and
to the crippled, blind, and federal monies for state
and local public health work.
22


While historians, economists, and political pundits
continue to argue whether or not the New Deal
worked, one thing that cant be argued is its impact
on the funding and administration of the nations
social welfare policy. With the expansion of the
federal governments role in that policy, the role of
the state and especially the counties in funding that
policy was forever changed. A ready-made
example of this was the county almshouses or poor
farms that had served the needs of many of
Missouris counties since the mid 19
th
century.

The passage of the Federal Social Security Act and
state welfare legislation brought about the gradual
closing of county farms as a system of public
welfare.
23
Iron Countys poor farm was sold by
the County Court to Dr. Paul Newman and his wife
Grace in September, 1948 for the sum of $6,502.
24


Authors note: The property that once contained the
Iron County Poor Farm is still under the ownership
of the Newman family and I, along with Wilma
Cofer, and Rick Walker were given a tour of the
property by Mr. Robert Newman. The remodeled
caretakers house is all that remains of the original
buildings and it is shown in the picture below.











Remodeled Caretakers House September 2011
Photo courtesy of Wilma Cofer

22
Ibid., 238, 239.
23
Clarence R. Keathley, When There Really was a Poor
House, The Ozarks Mountaineer, March April 1991, 43.
24
Ibid.


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IRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
P. O. Box 183, Ironton, MO 63650
(order from above address)

Title / Author Publication Details / Cost
A Celebration Worth Remembering Cookbook (Reprint of Centennial
Cookbook with additional materials and photographs)
Soft cover, coil bound.
192 pgs. $15.00 plus $4.00 S&H
CENTENNI AL: I ronton, Missouri, May 30 J une 2, 1957

Reprint, soft cover, comb bound.
58 pgs. $6.00 plus $2.50 S & H
Dorothy Reese: Ironton/Arcadia Valleys Cheerleader, Historical, Civic
Leader, And Teacher: A Tribute, by Randall Cox
Soft cover, comb bound. 19 pgs.
$2.00 plus $1.50 S & H
Early History of Arcadia Valley, by C. S. Russell, edited by Robert Pollock Soft cover, comb bound. 33 pgs.
$5.00 plus $2.50 S & H
History of the 33
rd
Regiment I llinois Veteran Volunteer I nfantry in the Civil
War
Excerpts, 21 pgs. $3.00 plus $1.00
S & H
I n the Arcadia Valley

Reprint from Iron County Register
Supp ;/1800s. 50 pgs $10.00 plus
$2.50 S & H
I ron County Family, Business, and Organization Stories: A Supplement to
Past and Present
Soft cover, comb bound, photos,
195 pgs. $20.00 plus $3.50 S & H
I ron County, Missouri, Year By Year, by Clarence R. Keathley Soft cover, comb bound, maps,
photos, Ca 1984. 16 pgs. $3.00
plus $1.50 S & H
J ohn Albert Undertaking Business, 1878 1921

Manuscript, indexed, comb bound.
76 pgs. $6.00 plus $2.50 S & H
My Perfect Life, by Robert Pollock Indexed. 147 pgs. $10.00 plus
$3.50 S & H
Past and Present A History of I ron County 1857 1994
Topical/biographical history of Iron County, Missouri

Hard Bound, indexed. 434 pgs.
$49.95 plus $4.50 media rate or
$10 1
st
class priority S & H
Perpetual Diary of Capt. P. Ake Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, I ronton, MO
(A Civil War Diary covering the year 1865)
7 pgs. $2.00 plus $1.00 S & H
Readin, Ritin and Rithmetic, A History of Schools in Iron County, MO.,
1840 1981, by Clarence R. Keathley
Soft cover, photos, etc. Ca. 1981.
136 pgs. $8.00 each or 2/$10.00
plus $3.50 S & H
Russell Cemetery Association Soft cover, comb bound. 33 pgs.
$5.00 plus $2.00 S & H
United States Post Offices in I ron County, Missouri, Then and Now,
by Clarence R. Keathley
Soft cover, photos, maps, Ca. 1984.
17 pgs. $3.00 plus $1.50 S & H
W. J . Hinchey Diaries, Portrait of a community during the Civil War, edited
by John and Elizabeth Holloman
Soft cover, comb bound. 73 pgs.
$10.00 plus $2.50 S & H
White Funeral Home Register, Caledonia, Missouri, 1907 1934

Manuscript, comb bound, indexed.
34 pgs. $6.00 plus $2.50 S & H
Witnesses to History - Stories from Park View Cemetery, by John Abney Comb bound. 101 pgs. $10.00 plus
$3.00 S & H

OTHER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ITEMS FOR SALE
(Same address as above)
Educational Civil War Playing Cards $10.00 per deck plus S/ H if mailed
Explore Missouri Playing Cards $5.00 per deck plus S /H if mailed
150
th
Anniversary Battle of Pilot Knob Coffee Cup $6.00 per cup plus S /H if mailed










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Iron County Historical Society
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Iron County Trivia Contest

Time to test your Iron County trivia knowledge. If you would like play, mail your answers (with a postmark no later than
July 31st) to:
Iron County Historical Society Trivia P. O. Box 183, Ironton, MO 63650

We will randomly draw a winner from all entries that have correctly answered ALL the questions. Your prize will be a
copy of: A Celebration Worth Remembering Cookbook - Reprint of Centennial Cookbook with additional materials and
photographs.

Here are this quarters questions. Good luck to each of you!







1. What year was the original portion of the Iron
County courthouse completed?
2. He defended Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted for
complicity in the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln. He was also at the Battle of Pilot
Knob. Who is this man?
3. How did the town of Annapolis get its name?
4. Who donated the cannons that sit in front of the
Iron County courthouse?
5. The town of Shepard was named after this man.
6. This town was named for the east end of the
Sligo and Easten Railroad.
7. The building housing our museum was first
dedicated in what year?
8. This Iron County architect / builder designed
the 1899 Madison County Courthouse.
9. Where was the Ashebran Furnace located?
10. He fought for the Union side in the Battle of
Pilot Knob and was later elected as Missouris
18
th
governor.