Genealogie

1951 · 020506 — Kennett Missouri: Thrower Printing Company 1951. A reading/reference copy. Recasing candidate with cover is in poor condition. Text pages are Very Good -- complete and entirely legible. The black cloth cover is stained and worn. Inner hinges are cracked. Cover is only partially attached to the text block. Gilt lettering on the spine is badly faded. However all pages are present and completely legible. The text block is still bound together making this a suitable candidate for fairly inexpensive recasing. No year of publication is indicated but the foreword by Charles B. Baker is dated 1951. This is Volume Number One a history of Dunklin County Missouri with biographical sketches and photos of many residents and historical pioneers. We normally would not offer for sale a book in this condition this bad. However the book is incredibly scarce and the content extremely valuable. This copy is inscribed on the endpapers by Mary Nola Johnson Osburn to her son Martin Gaylyn Osburn. Among the histories provided here are of the families McKay Kinsolving Gardner Harkey Rayburn McHanley Shelton Moore Hubbards Langdon Asa Blakemore Douglass Will A. Haislip Dr. Jacob Snider Alexander T. Douglas Albert S. Davis etc. Includes genealogical charts. Also included are biographical sketches of prominent Dunklin County citizens histories of local trials incidents churches and schools mail carriers the lynching of Bowman Paxton etc. SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. Photos upon request. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Poor cover/VG text/No dust jacket. 8vo. xviii 513pp. 46 page Index. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Thrower Printing Company Hardcover