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Audrain County Area
Genealogical Society for email contact.
The Audrain County Area Genealogical Society now have copies of the two
Quisenberry family histories for sale.
1.Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family and other
Families by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry -1897
2. Memorials of the Quisenberry Family - 1900.
Contact the ACAGS for more
information.
The Confederate Soldier (Mark of
Respect) personal information book has been
completed, and is at the Audrain County Library in the
genealogy room.
To make a request, go to
http://www.umsystem.edu/shs and click on “Research Requests” and
then on “Obituaries.” The full name of the deceased, the exact date of
death, and the residence at the time of death is required. The cost per
request is $5 for Society members and $10 for nonmembers. The fee
includes one photocopy of researched material and mailing costs.
Idaho Daily Statesman
May 22, 1891
BLOWN HALF A MILE.
Further Particulars of the Great
Missouri Cyclone
MEXICO, Mo., May 21.--The cyclone which passed over the
northern portion of Audrain county yesterday killed
three persons and seriously injured a score of others, of
whom four will die.
The track of the storm was about 100 yards wide. The residences
of Alex Carter, Wm. Powell, Dillard Brothers,
B. Kunkel, George Crane, William Yoetmeier, T. B. Ham, Valentine
Erdell, S. S. Norris, A. Ahlfeldt, J. M.Menefee and John Doerger
were literally torn to pieces and Kunkel received injuries from
which he died within an hour. His sons, Otto and Harry, were
severely hurt. Yoetmeier and his wife and child, and Clarence
Harvey, who was visiting there, were badly cut and bruised. S. S.
Norris' house was blown to pieces and seven members of the family
injured. Three of the, Miss Gertie Fletcher, Mrs. Seale and a small
child, cannot live.
Close at hand was the house of John Doerger, which was also
demolished.The 6-year old daughter was killed, and the remainder of
the family, five in number, painfully injured. All of Doerger's
stock was killed. Three men, Mason Kerman, Thomas and Homer Rogers
seeing the storm, laid flat on the ground and clasped hands.
Homer,who was in the middle, was killed,while the other two men were
uninjured.
In the western part of the county the worst damage was done at
the farm of J. A. Harrison. His son was blown half a mile and
lodged in a tree, being fatally injured. Hundreds of cattle, hogs
and sheep were killed.
The
Kansas City Times
Page 1
December 14, 1920
MEXICO, MO. HAS NEW HOSPITAL
Audrain County Issued $150,000 Bonds for
Institution
MEXICO, Mo., Dec 13--Audrain County's $150,000 hospital will
open Thursday morning and the patients will be moved from the present
building occupied as a hospital. This is the first hospital in
Missouri in which county bonds were voted. It is modern in
everyway. It is the outgrowth of an institution started by A. P.
Green and whose loss was underwritten by a number of citizens.
both newspaper articles provided by Glenda
Suddarth
Audrain County Links
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other web sites changing URLs. Use Google for search for Audrain
County material not on this site.
I do not
live in Audrain County and I cannot do any personal
research. I am willing to help when I can, and I really
hate to have say no or I can't, so please do not ask. Betty
Brooks
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