Missouri GenWeb

Welcome to
The Miller County, Missouri
Genealogy Page

A MOGenWeb Project



[Location of Miller Co.]

My name is Johnna Quick Owens, and I am the county coordinator for the Miller County MOGenWeb page (which was founded by Ted Hitt).
If you see any errors on these pages or can contribute information, please let me know. If you would like to volunteer to host a county in Missouri contact Larry Flesher.

Note: All photographs on this page were taken by and are copyrighted by Ted Hitt, unless otherwise indicated.
Permission to reproduce them with proper credit to the copyright holder is granted!



What's new at this site

Resources at This Site

Note: at the end of this list of resources, there is a form allowing you to search the Miller County site.

Military Records

Through the generosity of Robert McKinley, we have the following important resources:

Census

Marriages

Wills

Cemeteries - listings submitted by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly

Cemeteries - other listings

History


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Links to Other Miller County Sites

Data Posted by Volunteers

Other Useful Sites


Miller County Newspapers

Courtesy of Dale Vernon of Vernon Publishing Company and Pat Calton, the following links will take to the the current news from these newspapers in Miller County. The web sites do not include any archives of past issues, only the present week; but they do give the newspapers' telephone numbers which might be helpful for someone doing genealogical research.


Email Lists


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[Miller Co. Courthouse]

Miller County Courthouse, Tuscumbia, MO 65082



A little history...

Miller County, named after early Missouri Governor John Miller, was organized February 6, 1837 from parts of Pulaski and Cole Counties. It is situated twenty miles southwest of Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri. The Osage River bisects the county. Bagnell Dam, on the western edge of the county, forms the Lake of the Ozarks.

The first historical inhabitants of Miller County were the friendly Osage Indians. In 1822, the Indians had a village at the joining of Barren Fork and Tavern creeks, at the present Wilson Cave, named for John Wilson who later occupied the cave. The first white man to record his visits in Miller County was Zebulon M. Pike who, with a group of Indians, traveled up the Osage River, passing by the present site of Tuscumbia in 1806.

The county seat of justice was established at Tuscumbia on land donated by James P. Harrison. The first county court session was held in the log cabin of an early settler, William Miller, located downriver from Tuscumbia.

Major towns besides Tuscombia include Pleasantmount, Spring Garden, Etter, Eldon, Rockymount, Aurora Springs, Bagnell, Blackmer, Brumley, Faith, Iberia, Atwell, Brays, Blyse, Claxby, St. Elizabeth, Ramsey, Pleasantfarm, Ulman, Marys Home, and Brouses Bend.

Click [HERE] to see a map of Miller County.

Miller County Historical Marker

Miller County Historical Society

[Miller County Historical Society]

P.O. Box 57
Highway 52 West
Tuscumbia, Missouri
U.S.A. 65082-0057

[Lupardus Cabin]

The cabin built in the late 1860s by Peter Burton Lupardus, donated by Gary Flaugher and beautifully restored by the Lupardus descendents on the grounds of the Miller County Historical Society



Surrounding Counties

Moniteau Cole Osage
Morgan Miller Maries
Camden Pulaski

To go further afield, look at the map of the counties of Missouri.


Missouri Links


Genealogy Links


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The MOGenWeb/USGenWeb Project

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the KentuckyGenWeb project. This grew into the USGenWeb project and eventually the WorldGenWeb effort. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. The MOGenWeb is part of that project.

MOGenWeb Resources

USGenWeb Links


This page was last modified 01/08/2024