Description: A rural farming community in Missouri; we collaborate on family research, share local history, preserve records, give free museum tours and publish historical information.
missouri (2742) family tree (744) montgomery county (413) historical society (197) genealogy research (165) genealogical society (102) ancestral history (75) rural farm museum (1) rhineland mo (1) local facts (1)
MC HS long ago identified 221 burial sites , which fall into three categories: Private (for-profit or not-for-profit, such as churches); Public (operated by a local government); and Family. Family burial grounds are usually small and unincorporated. They are often abandoned and in appalling condition, but are sometimes maintained by the family or landowner. The County has no responsibility for their upkeep, except for a few instances where a trust has been created with adequate funding. See RSMO 214.140 .
MCHS has a list of the County’s Post Offices and Postmasters ,complied in 1990 by the amazing volunteer and museum curator Marj Miller (1923-2017). The source is “Record Group Description 028 Postal Service Record of Appointment of Postmasters for Montgomery County, Missouri page 658 and Site location file R25/2716 Box 376.” Information after 1960 may have come from other sources. An unsubstantiated and undated newspaper article claims that “In 1894 Montgomery County became the first county in the US where
Home page articles are archived under "Misc. Articles" in County History . Return to Top of Page