Greene County, Missouri, History of.

By:  Western Historical Company, Pub. 1883, Reprinted 2018, 1010 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-715-7.

Located in the Ozark region of the state, Greene County was created in 1833 from Crawford and Wayne Counties.  Due to Missouri being a Slave state, settlers began showing up in the area around the 1820’s from the Southern states such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky.  This volume contains biographical sketches of some 523 individuals in these counties and genealogical data on some 2,000 other families / individuals.  These persons were not only from VA, TN, NC, & KY but also had large numbers of settlers from OH, PA, IN, IL, & MO along with lesser quantities from the states of DE, GA, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, VT, WI, & WV.  The NEW INDEX for this reprint mentions over 3,000 entries.