From 1862: “The acting Coroner of this county was called upon, on Friday last, to hold an inquest upon the body of Eli La Rose, who was most cruelly murdered on the day before by John Criswell of this county….” Read more: thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/2012/06/town-ball-in-ste-genevieve-during-civil.html
Category: Misc Newspapers
GUETHLE – HAGUE. Mr. Henry Guethle of St. Marys and Miss Florence Hague, of this city, were united in marriage in the Catholic church in Desloge. Rev. Father Shields officiating, at high noon Tuesday of this week. The immediate family and friends of the happy couple were present, and following the wedding ceremony all repaired [...]
Farmington Times, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, September 1, 1910. RUN OVER BY FREIGHT TRAIN AND KILLED. William Hunt, an Aged Farmer, Meets With Death Under the Wheels at Sprott. Mr. William Hunt, an old and respected citizen who lived near Sprott, a station on the Illinois Southern railroad, was run over by a [...]
Josephas Coonrod joins the list of frontier Indian captives whose descendants later settled in Ohio. The Coonrod family came to the New World in 1742 from Switzerland or Baden, Germany, and settled in Maryland on the north banks of the Potomac River. About the time the arrived in this country, Josephas was born. Eventually they [...]
REFLECTIONS ON WEINGARTEN POW CAMP By Peggy O’Farrell Daily Journal News Editor Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. April 24, 1987 in a supplement "Reflections: View of the Past – A Look to the Future." A few lonely strands of barbed wire and the remnants of a chimney are all that remain, but to [...]
BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY OF COMPANY B By Peggy O’Farrell Daily Journal Staff Writer Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. April 29, 1988 in a supplement "Back in the 40′s When You and I Were Young." "Some day, I’m going to kill the bugler, Some day, I’m going to shoot him dead…" Suffice it [...]
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, July 13, 1917 INMATE OF ASYLUM VISITED FLAT RIVER SUNDAY AFTERNOON Mr. and Mrs. James Melka entertained for a short time a rather unusual guest Sunday evening in the person of Gus Bowling, an inmate of the Farmington asylum. Gus is a native of Ste. Genevieve [...]