St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri Genealogy

This is a Genealogy page for Buchanan County Seat in the State of Missouri.

Missouri Buchanan County  St. Joseph

St Joseph is where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended. It is also home of the Kansas City Chief Summer Training Camp.

Cemeteries

 * Ashland Cemetery


 * Ashland Cemetery Find A Grave


 * Mount Mora Cemetery


 * Mount Mora Cemetery Find A Grave


 * Mt. Olivet Cemetery


 * Mount Olivet Cemetery Find A Grave

Funeral Homes

 * Bullock Family Funeral Home


 * Clark-Sampson Funeral Home


 * Heaton-Bowman-Smith Chapels


 * Meierhoffer Funeral Home and Crematory


 * Rupp Funeral Home

History

 * The State of Missouri was organized in 1821 and Joseph Robidoux established the Blacksnake Hills trading post with the Indians in 1826. Robidoux's trading post soon became a fur-trading empire stretching to the southern Rocky Mountains. The Platte Purchase joined his land to the state of Missouri in 1837. Ideally situated, Robidoux's trading post became the City of St. Joseph in 1843 and remained relatively small until the discovery of gold in California in 1848 which greatly altered and accelerated westward migration. Read more at St. Joseph History


 * St. Joseph is located along a bend in the Missouri River in the northwest portion of the state. It is situated on bluffs of loess soil which were created by the deposit of silt and dust following the last glacier. The native vegetation was characterized by an undulating prairie with strips of woodlands of mostly black walnut following the streams leading to the Missouri River. The bluffs were both a meeting place and burial ground for the native Indians in the surrounding areas, with the local tribes acting as custodians. Read more at St. Joseph City

Archives

 * The Black Archives Museum


 * Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society

Libraries

 * Missouri Western State University Library MWS Link


 * Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society NMGS


 * St Joseph Public Library Library link

Museums

 * The Black Archives Museum


 * Glore Psychiatric Museum

Societies

 * Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society NMGS

Town Clerk

 * City Clerk