Welcome To Shelby County,       Missouri

Shelby County was organized 2 Jan 1835 from Marion County.  It was named for Gen. Isaac Shelby, who fought at King's Mountain, in the Revolution, and was subsequently Governor of Kentucky.  The first county seat was at Oak Dale, but was moved to Shelbyville in 1836.  
                                               

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Missouri Newspapers Online

Missouri Death Index, check this one out!!

   Anti-Horse Thief Association

  SHELBY COUNTY AND THE CIVIL WAR!

CIVIL WAR VETERANS BURIED in SHELBY COUNTY

    MISSOURI in the CIVIL WAR

 EARLY SETTLERS AND EARLY COURT RECORDS

KENDALL CHURCH & VILLAGE

 LIST OF CEMETERIES IN SHELBY COUNTY

 PLACE NAMES OF SHELBY COUNTY  

 EARLY CHURCH RECORDS FROM SHELBY COUNTY

  CIVIC ORDERS AND TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS OF EARLY SHELBY COUNTY.  

 EARLY SCHOOLS OF SHELBY COUNTY.

STREAMS, BRANCHES AND CREEKS
  | Reference Books and Lookup Volunteers  | | Bible  Records |                 

              | Co. G 39th Inf. Vol. |  Centralia Massacre

Please be aware that I cannot answer any personal research questions and cannot reply to these types of requests.  I do not live in Shelby County.  My goal is to provide prompt updated information as it is received. I will periodically be adding new features and welcome your comments and/or suggestions.  . If you have information you would like to contribute, I will be happy to hear from you.  Thank you for your support of this site! Lea Ann    

PLEASE REMEMBER...Information here is not "etched in stone." It may however, provide valuable leads.  It is up to you to prove the data and contact the person who provided it to compare notes.  This site relies on contributions from those of you who are interested in  Shelby County research and are willing to provide information.

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The Municipal Townships of Shelby County. [In 1884]
Jackson Township
Tigerfork Township
Black Creek Township
Salt River Township
Clay Township
Taylor Township
Bethel Township
Jefferson Township

1895 Atlas of Shelby County

Map of major roads and towns in Shelby County        Use your browsers back button to return to Shelby County.

 Reference Books and Lookup Volunteers Needed - If you have books or other reference sources for Shelby County and are willing to do lookups on a voluntary basis, please let the page coordinator know. I would be very happy to add you to the list of volunteers.  

My name is Lea Ann Oliver and my goal is to maintain the Shelby County, MOGenWeb Project web page. Please contact me, if you would like to add your research  records to the data presented here.  

Be Sure To Visit our neighbors     

Please visit our neighbors, then use your brower's back button to return to Shelby County.

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The new Brothers Bound site has links to rosters of many soldiers

who were kept in Union POW camps...along with links to documents

and personal stories..... If you would like to check it out, the address is:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/bound/htm

Missouri State Genealogical Association

State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia


Missouri State Archives

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