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Shannon County was organized January 29, 1841 from Ripley and Washington Counties. The county is named for George Shannon of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The County seat is at Eminence Mo. It has the Current River and Jacks Fork both running through it. Also home of some of Missouri's prettiest springs - Alley Springs and Round Springs. And, there is Peck Ranch and Rocky Falls. A lot of natural beauty abounds in the area. These areas are big tourists attractions - a lot of camping, canoeing, float trips, hiking, trail rides, etc.

The courthouse burned during the Civil War in 1863, again in 1871, and 1938; recorders office burned in 1893. Records are  available for the following: Recorder to deeds: Index to deeds, 1859-1887 Deed records, 1871-1892 Marriage records and index, 1881-1921; Clerk of Circuit court: Index to circuit court records - No dates; Circuit Court records, 1872-1915 Index to tax suits, 1880-1932 Clerk of Probate Court: Index to Probate Records, 1869-1911; Probate Records, 1880-1904; Administrators/executors docket, 1875-1896; Inventories appraisements and sale bills, 1876-1899 Settlement records, 1876-1891; Will records, 1907-1918. Some land records prior to 1872 may be in Ironton, Missouri.

 

Denise Woodside & Donita Barkley
 Shannon County MOGenWeb County Coordinators

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Shannon County, Missouri
 

Deer at Sunset
Photo by Gail Underwood Bland

 

Ancestry.com Charts and Forms
(External link)

Articles
(misc. about Shannon County and
people of Shannon County)

Bible Records

Biographies

Missouri State Archives:
Birth & Death Records Database
(External link)

 

Wild Horses of
Shannon County

Photo by Lanita Sconce Smith
(Click photo for full picture.)

 


Look-up Volunteers

Maps

Plat Map image, 1895 map image, and links to more.

 

UM Digital Plat Book Library 
(External link)

Rootsweb's Shannon County Mailing List Instructions

Memorials 

Cemeteries  

All Known Cemeteries Listed.
Many transcribed with additional information!

  

Shannon County Courthouse
P.O. Box 148
Eminence, MO 65466

Eminence City Website - County Seat

 County Office Information

 

Rootsweb's Shannon County Message Board

Mining
(External link)

My Missouri Genealogy
(External link)

Native Americans
(External link)

Naturalization Records, 1816 - 1955 
(External link)

Census Records

  • 1850 & 1860 Census Transcribed.

  • 1870, 1880, 1890 Veteran's Schedule, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 Shannon County Census Images.  (Currently correcting some of these links.)

  • 1890 Special Enumeration of
    Union Veterans Census  (An invaluable tool given the destruction of the 1890 Federal Census)


Rocky Falls

 

Local Newspapers

Midwest Gazetteer:
Shannon County Places
(External link)


Obituaries

AWESOME RESOURCE
Hundreds of names!

 

  

Photos

Strangers in the Box
 
 Come, look with me inside the drawer
 in this box I've often seen,
 at the pictures black and white
 faces proud, still, serene.
 
 I wish I knew the people
 these strangers in the box,
 their names and all their memories
 are lost among my socks.
 
 I wonder what their lives were like.
 How did they spend their days?
 What about their special times?
 I'll never know their ways.
 
 If only someone had taken time
 to tell who, what or when,
 these faces of my heritage
 would come to life again.
 
 Could this become the fate
 of pictures we take today?
 The faces and memories
 someday to be passed away?
 
 Make time to tell your stories.
 seize the opportunity when it knocks.
 Or someday you and yours could be
 The strangers in the box.
 
 Author Unknown

 

Churches

First Baptist Church
Notes from the organization of
First Baptist Church, Eminence.

Family Group Sheets
 Family Group Sheets from the Missouri Family Group Sheet Project with Shannon County connections are listed here.



First Families

 

Public Service Announcements:
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Shannon County Historical & Genealogical Society Publications

 

Probate Records (Wills)

Queries (Archived )

Reunions

Family Reunions, Church & Cemetery Homecomings

 

Ghost Towns
(External link)

Historic Sites, Caves, Springs
(External link)

Ozark Trail

  

Schools

Winona High School 
(External link)

 



Jam Up Cave

 

 Current River History
(External link)



 Early Days
Articles and stories of the Upper Riverways by J.L. Stoops
(External link)

Blue Springs 

Alley Springs

  Round Spring

Shannon County Surname Registry

War Records

Soldiers Database
(External link)

National Park Service
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System  
(External link)
Historical Register
(Shannon County sites)
(External link)

The Old Homeplace

Jack's Fork River

 

 

History of the Irish Wilderness
PDF file - Longer Load Time
(External link)

The Poorhouse Story
(External link)

The Ozark Riverways
and the 'New South'  
Change in the Homeland, 1870-1920
(External link)

Land Patents: 1831– 1910
(External link)

Local Records Inventory Database
(External link) 

 
Shannon County Neighbors: 

Six counties are directly adjacent to Shannon County. 

Links to their sites are listed here.

Dent County
 Reynolds County
 Carter County
 Oregon County
 Howell County
 Texas County  

 

Winona City Hall

Alley Mill

The MOGenWeb Project

 

The USGenWeb Project  

 

The USGenWeb Archives

Current River



Powder Mill Ferry
at Owl's Bend

 Indians in Missouri
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Denise Woodside



Donita Barkley

 

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