Miller County, Missouri Genealogy

United States Missouri  Miller County





County Courthouse
Miller County Courthouse PO Box 12; Tuscumbia, MO 65082; Phone: 573.369.2731 County Clerk has birth records 1883-1891; County Recorder has marriage and divorce records; Probate Judge has probate records Clerk 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

Boundary Changes

 * Gerald [sic; should be Gerard] Schultz History Page (scroll down to "Boundaries" section) (Miller County Historical Society)
 * Interactive map of Missouri county boundary changes, including Miller County (n2genealogy)

Places/Localities
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:


 * Iberia: Histopolis | Official site
 * 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)
 * Post Offices in Miller Co., Missouri (Missouri Postal History)

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 (pdf; Missouri State Archives)

General

 * Cemeteries (Genealogy Trails)
 * Cemeteries (scroll down in page; GenWeb)
 * Cemeteries of Miller County (Miller County Museum &amp; Historical Society)
 * Cemetery Records (USGenWeb Archives)
 * Cemetery Search Results (for Miller County) (Find A Grave)
 * Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. Cemetery Records of Miller County, Missouri. Chillicothe, MO: Self-published, n.d. WorldCat
 * Equality Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Franklin Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Glaize Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Jim Henry Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Kelsay, Carl G. Tombstone Inscriptions, Miller County, Missouri. Rocky Mount, MO?: Self-published, 1972?. WorldCat
 * Kelsay, Carl G., et al. Index to Cemeteries, Miller County, Missouri. Rocky Mount, MO: [s.n.], 1972?. WorldCat
 * Miller County (The Tombstone Transcription Project)
 * Miller County Cemeteries (ePodunk)
 * Miller County Cemetery Records (Interment.net)
 * Osage Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Richwoods Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat
 * Saline Township, Miller County, Missouri. [no publication data, 1970s] (cemetery records). WorldCat

Specific cemeteries

 * Eldon Cemetery: Yarnell, Ilene Sims. Eldon, Mo. Cemetery, Miller County. Versailles, MO: Self-published, 196-?. WorldCat
 * Tol Wood Cemetery: Arnel, James, and Karen Arnel. Tol Wood Cemetery, Franklin Township, Miller County, Missouri. Wichita, KS: Self-published, 2003. WorldCat

General

 * 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

Education

 * Gageville School (historical location; map)

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

Maps

 * Boyd, Gregory A. Family Maps of Miller County, Missouri. Norman, OK: Arphax Publishing Co., 2006. Publisher | WorldCat
 * 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.

General

 * Military Records (USGenWeb Archives)

Civil War

 * Miller County, Missouri Civil War Veterans (GenWeb)
 * Osage Reg. Home Guards, Co. K Roster (GenWeb)

World War II

 * Miller County, Missouri World War II Casualties, Army and Air Force (Access Genealogy)

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)

Newspapers

 * Chronicling America list of historic Miller County newspapers (Chronicling America at the Library of Congress)
 * Miller County Autogram-Sentinel, Eldon, MO (current newspaper)
 * 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.
 * Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri (GenWeb)
 * 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)

Births

 * 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)

Marriages

 * 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

 * 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)
 * 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)

Societies and Libraries

 * Heartland Regional Library System (Miller and Maries Counties)
 * Miller County Museum, Home of Miller County Historical Society

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Miller County Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Miller County GenWeb (MOGenWeb)
 * Miller County, Missouri (Emslanders to the American Mid-West)
 * Miller County, Missouri Genealogical Forum (GenForum)
 * Miller County, Missouri Genealogy &amp; History (Genealogy Trails)
 * Miller County, Missouri Genealogy, Facts and Records Resources (n2genealogy)
 * Miller County USGenWeb Archives (USGenWeb Archives)
 * Profile for Miller County, Missouri (ePodunk)
 * Welcome to Miller County
 * Welcome to Miller County