Miller County, Missouri Genealogy

Guide to Miller County, Missouri ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.





County Courthouse
County Clerk has birth records 1883-1891; County Recorder has marriage and divorce records; Probate Judge has probate records; Clerk of the Circuit Court has court records.

History
Miller County, Missouri was organized 6 February 1837. The county was named after Congressman and Missouri governor John Miller. You will find more history by selecting: HISTORY.

Parent County
1837 Miller County was created 6 February 1837 from Cole and Pulaski Counties. County seat: Tuscumbia

Neighboring Counties
Pulaski • Camden •  Morgan •  Moniteau •  Cole •  Osage •  Maries

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Missouri county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Missouri County Boundary Maps" (1804-1889) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.


 * Gerald [sic; should be Gerard] Schultz History Page (scroll down to "Boundaries" section) (Miller County Historical Society)

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Places/Localities
Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog



To see a list of places in Miller County, click on [Show], in the bar above.

Populated Places
Townships:


 * Equality Township: City-Data.com | Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Franklin Township: City-Data.com | Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Glaize Township: City-Data.com | Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Jim Henry Township: Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Osage Township: Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Richwoods Township: City-Data.com | Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society
 * Saline Township: City-Data.com | Histopolis | Miller County Historical Society

Communities:
 * Tuscumbia: City.Data.com | Histopolis | HomeTownLocator | Wikipedia

Resources

For more about Miller County populated places, see the following:


 * A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Miller County Missouri (Springfield-Greene County Library District)
 * Historic Miller County Communities (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Miller County Communities (ePodunk)
 * Miller County Place Names, 1928-1945 (State Historical Society of Missouri)
 * Post Offices &amp; Post Masters (Genealogy Trails)

General

 * Miller County, Missouri (records in the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection) (University of Missouri at Rolla)
 * Miller County Records: County Records Which Are Available on Microfilm (pdf; Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Missouri State Archives Guide to County and Municipal Records on Microfilm: Miller County (pdf)

Biographies

 * All of the family biographies from the History of Miller County, Missouri (1889) by Goodspeed Publishing Company are available free online at My Genealogy Hound.

Cemeteries

 * Cemeteries (Genealogy Trails)
 * Cemeteries of Miller County (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Missouri Cemeteries Missouri Access Genealogy
 * Miller County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1 at Ancestry.com ($)

Census
General
 * 1732-1933 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * Census (scroll down in page; GenWeb)
 * Census Records (USGenWeb Archives)

1840
 * 1840 Census (GenWeb)
 * McKinley, Robert L. 1840 Census of Miller County, Missouri with Annotations. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997. WorldCat

1850
 * 1850 Census (GenWeb): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Index
 * Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. Miller County, Missouri 1850 Federal Census. Chillicothe, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1850 &amp; 1860 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1860
 * Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. 1860 Census for Miller County, Missouri. Chillicothe, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1850 &amp; 1860 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1870
 * Strange, Gaylord, 1870 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 198-?. WorldCat

1880
 * Strange, Gaylord. 1880 Census, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, 1986?. WorldCat

1900
 * 1900 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

1920


 * 1920 Census (USGenWeb Archives)

Church

 * Miller County Baptist Association
 * Minutes of the . . . Annual Session of the Miller County Association of Baptist Churches, 1891-1957. Aurora Springs, MO: Cresset Job Print. WorldCat

Court

 * Miller County Clerk's Office
 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index and images

General

 * Family Histories (at Library of the Miller County Historical Society)
 * Hake, Peggy Smith. Pioneer Families of Miller County, Missouri: A Journey to the Past. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, 2000. WorldCat | Index

Specific families

 * Gott family: Gott, Jeannette Whitten. The Gott Family of Miller County, Missouri, 1650-1992. Lakewood, CO: Self-published, 2007. WorldCat | Google Books (no preview)
 * Humphrey family: The Humphrey Family of Miller County, Missouri
 * Livingston family: The Livingston Family of Miller County (GenWeb)
 * Teaverbaugh family: The Missouri Ancestry of Robert Reed ("The Brady Bunch") (GenealogyMagazine.com)
 * West family: John Laffoon West and Family (Genealogy &amp; History Notes)

Land

 * Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office (land patent searches; searching for Miller County, Missouri without entering a name yields 208 pages of hits)
 * Miller County Recorder's Office

Local Histories

 * Hake, Peggy Smith. They Left a Legacy: Historical Stories of Miller County, Missouri. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, 1991. WorldCat
 * History of Miller County (Welcome to Miller County website)
 * Jenkins, Clyde Lee. Judge Jenkins' History of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO, 1971. WorldCat
 * Jenkins, Clyde Lee, and Clayton Edwin Jenkins. Judge Jenkins' History of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO?: Clayton Edwin Jenkins, 1995. WorldCat
 * Miller County History and Vittles. Tuscumbia, MO: Miller County Historical Society, 1991. WorldCat
 * Osage River Country: A History of the People and Places of Miller County, Missouri. Tuscumbia, MO: Miller County Historical Society, 1995. WorldCat
 * Schultz, Gerard. A History of Miller County, Missouri. Jefferson City, MO: Midland Printing Co., 1933. WorldCat
 * Warman-Starlings, Kelly, and Kirk D. Warman. The Ghost Towns of Central Missouri: Cole, Miller &amp; Moniteau Counties. Jefferson City, MO: Ketch's Printing, 1994?. WorldCat


 * History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries and Osage counties, Missouri : from the earliest time to the present, including a department devoted to the preservation of sundry personal, business, professional and private records, besides a valuable fund of notes, original observations, etc., etc. Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1889.
 * Online at FamilySearch (Free)

Maps



 * Maps of Missouri (1804-1889)
 * Boyd, Gregory A. Family Maps of Miller County, Missouri. Norman, OK: Arphax Publishing Co., 2006. Publisher | WorldCat. Available online at HistoryGeo.com ($). Free surname search.
 * Libre Map Project (detailed online topographic maps of Miller County)
 * Miller County Highway Map (pdf; MO Department of Transportation)
 * Miller County, Missouri (maps of townships, communities, etc.; Histopolis)
 * Miller County, Missouri 1857 (House Divided)
 * Miller County, Missouri 1895 (1895 U.S. Atlas)
 * Miller County, Missouri Zip Code Boundary Map
 * Miller County Townships (simple outline map; scroll down in page)
 * Plat Book of Miller County, Missouri. Rockford, IL: W.W. Hixson &amp; Co., date uncertain, abt late 1920s-early 1930s. University of Missouri Digital Library (digital copy) | WorldCat
 * Standard Atlas of Miller County. Chicago: Alden Publishing Co., 1905.

Military

 * 1900 - 1941 at FamilySearch — images
 * Military Records (USGenWeb Archives)

Civil War
Online Records
 * 1861 - 1865  at FamilySearch — index
 * 1861 - 1865  at FamilySearch — index
 * at FamilySearch — images
 * Miller County, Missouri Civil War Veterans (GenWeb)
 * Osage Reg. Home Guards, Co. K Roster (GenWeb)

Regiments

Service men in Miller County, Missouri served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Miller County, Missouri:
 * - 12th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry (Union), Company K
 * - 26th Regiment, Missouri Infantry (Union), Company D
 * - 42nd Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company C
 * - 47th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company I
 * - 47th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), Company K

World War II

 * Miller County, Missouri World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force (Access Genealogy)
 * 1941 - 1946 at FamilySearch — index

Miscellaneous

 * Hake, Peggy Smith. Book of Marks and Brands, Miller County, Missouri, 1837-1856. St. Elizabeth, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat | Internet Archive (digital copy)

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index

Newspapers

 * Chronicling America list of historic Miller County newspapers (Chronicling America at the Library of Congress)
 * Miller County, Missouri Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society (State Historical Society, Columbia, MO)
 * Miller County Obituaries (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Miller County, Missouri Obituaries (NewspaperObituaries.net)
 * Miscellaneous Miller County Obituaries (Obit Central)
 * Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has Jefferson City newspapers from the early 1900's that covered local news on residents from Miller County communities.
 * Obituary Records (USGenWeb Archives)

Probate

 * Miller County Probate Records (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Probate Guardianship (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Will Book Transcriptions Prior to 1870 (GenWeb)

Online Probate Records
 * 1750 - 1988 at FamilySearch — images
 * 1766 - 1988 Missouri Wills and Probate Records 1766-1988 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Births

 * 1827 - 1935  at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1851 - 1910 Missouri Birth Records, 1851-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $
 * Missouri Birth &amp; Death Records Database, Pre-1910 (very incomplete, but searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 2,258 birth records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * 1883 - 1891 Miller County Birth Index 1883-1891. Batches  and  at FamilySearch - free.

Marriages

 * 1750 - 1920 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1800 - 1991 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1805 - 2002 Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 at Ancestry.com $
 * 1837 - 1882 Miller County Marriage Books A and B Index 1837-1882. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1850 Missouri Marriages to 1850 at Ancestry.com — index $
 * 1881 - 1885 Miller County Marriage Book C Index 1881-1885. Batch at FamilySearch - free.


 * Barnhouse, August F., and Carl G. Kelsay. Marriages, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: A.F. Barnhouse, 1984?. WorldCat
 * Hickok, Thelma Scott. Index to Marriages of Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Barnhouse and Kelsay, 1973-1974. WorldCat
 * Marriage Transcriptions (GenWeb)
 * Marriages of Miller and Maries Counties (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Strange, Gaylord. Marriages, Miller County, Missouri. Eldon, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat

Deaths

 * 1834 - 1910 Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910 at Ancestry.com — index/images $
 * 1867 - 1976  at FamilySearch.org — index
 * Missouri Birth &amp; Death Records Database, Pre-1910 (very incomplete, but searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 646 death records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * 1910 - 1960 Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1960 (online digital scans; searching for Miller County without entering a name yields 6,437 records) (Missouri State Archives)
 * See also Newspapers &gt; Obituaries (above)

Genealogy Societies, Archives and Libraries
List of Missouri Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Historical Society
Heartland Regional Library System (Miller and Maries Counties) Resources

Miller County Museum and Miller County Historical Society P.O. Box 57 Highway 52 West Tuscumbia, MO 65082

Family History Centers
Osage Beach Missouri Family History Center