Other Records and Resources

• 1850 Census - Mortality Schedule
• 1860 Census - Mortality Schedule
• 1870 Census Index
• 1870 Census - Mortality Schedule
• 1880 Census Index
• 1880 Census - Mortality Schedule
• 1900 Census Index
• 1940 Census - (Not indexed or transcribed)
• Shelby County Marriages - Index - 1835 through 1875
• Shelby County Probate Index
• Probate Records -  received from abstract office in Shelbyville, MO (now known as Black Creek Abstract Company) - wills, probate, law suits, guardianships, heirship affidavits, etc. dating back to early 1800's  (Excel spreadsheet).  Contact Shelby County Historical Society and Museum for desired copies.
• County Record Book No. 1 (1835 - 1838)
• Shelby County Land Records 1835 - 2001
• Marriage Records 1835 - 2001
• Surname Board
• Shelby County Message Board (Queries)
• Shelby County Mailing List
• 1894 Poll Tax List
• 1892 Poll Tax List
• 1898 Shelby County Merchants
• Clarence Public Library (101 West Maple, Clarence, MO 63467, 660-699-3310)
• Shelbina Carnegie Public Library (102 N. Center, Shelbina, MO 63468, 573-588-2271)
• Lookup Volunteers
• Shelby County Births and Deaths (1883 - 1887)
• Civic Orders and Temperance Organizations
• Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F. Lodge 142)

• IOOF History  Petition for Membership Question Book  Applications for Degrees

• "Shelbina - The First 100 Years" - Must have Adobe Acrobat to view
• Booklet - "The 100th Old Settlers Celebration in Shelbyville, Missouri - August 17 - 20, 1988"
• Harry Libby Collection - donated to the Shelby County Historical Society (view a list of contents)
• "The Town of Shelbina, MO, as I knew it in 1907 and 1908" by Robert Cecil Threlkeld
• Letter From "Hank" Carroll (Shelbyville, MO) to the Shelby County Herald dated January 15, 1930 - (Mr. Carroll reminisces his early days in Shelby County
• Early History of Lentner as detailed by the Editor of the Shelby County Herald on May 10, 1911
• Shelbina Businesses - 1891
• Shelby County Photographers
• Shelby County Farm Directory - Shelbyville, 1942
• Shelby County Centennial Farms
• Old Settlers Register 1889 - 1935:  Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
• Thompson Funeral Records 1903 - 1932 (Shelbyville):  Part 1 and Part 2
• Givan Funeral Records 1930 - 1952 (Hunnewell):  Part 1 and Part 2
• Brookvale Bubbles - Early memories of Shelby County, MO written by Rev. Marcus Lemon Gray (picture/bio) (b.1857 - d.1940)
• Antique Area Postcards - pictures of Shelbina and Clarence in the early 1900's
• Shelby County Railroads 
• Lee C. Miller Memoirs  (Written in 1903 for his children.)
• John Christian Bower biography (details trip from PA to Bethel in 1846 as well as early life in Bethel, MO)
• James F. Murray letters (From Civil War era - lived north of Hunnewell in Shelby County.  These letters are available upon request from the Shelby County Historical Society and Museum.)