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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

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

Bible Records

Biographies

Missouri State Archives:
Birth & Death Records Database

 

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 

Mailing List

Memorials 

Cemeteries  

All Known Cemeteries Listed.
Many transcribed with additional information!

  

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

Eminence - County Seat

 County Offices

 

Message Board

Mining

My Missouri Genealogy

Native Americans

Naturalization Records, 1816 - 1955 

Newspaper Articles

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

 

  

Newspapers

Midwest Gazetteer: Shannon County Places


Obituaries

AWESOME RESOURCE
Hundreds of names!

 

  

Photos

 

Churches

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

First Families

Public Service Announcements:
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This area is reserved for temporary articles of local interest.

 

Shannon County Historical & Genealogical Society Publications

 

Probate Records (Wills)

Queries (Archived )

Reunions

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

Ghost Towns

Historic Sites, Caves, Springs

Ozark Trail

  

Schools

Winona High School 

 



Jam Up Cave

 

 Current River History



 Early Days
Articles and stories of the Upper Riverways by J.L. Stoops

Blue Springs 

Alley Springs

  Round Spring

Surnames

War Records

Soldiers Database

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

The Old Homeplace

Jack's Fork River

 

History of the Irish Wilderness

The Poorhouse Story

 

The Ozark Riverways
and the 'New South'  
Change in the Homeland, 1870-1920

 

Land Patents: 1831– 1910

 

Local Records Inventory Database 
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  

Current River



Powder Mill Ferry
at Owl's Bend

 Indians in Missouri		 Your County Coordinators:



Denise Woodside



Donita Barkley

 

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