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Welcome to Adair County
Missouri Genealogy Research
Kirksville Mo circa 1930
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Adair County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Adair
County Data
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Brief
History:
Adair County was founded 1841
January 29.
The first permanent settlement in Adair
County began in 1828. Many
of
the first settlers were from Adair
County in Kentucky, for which
the Missouri county was named.
The county in Kentucky
was named for John Adair, a
respected Governor of
Kentucky. This was 25 years after
the Louisiana Purchase, seven years
after Missouri was granted
statehood, and four years after the
Sac and Fox Native American tribes
surrendered their claims
to the land. The original settlement
was called "Cabins of White Folks," or
simply, "The Cabins," and was
located six miles
(9.7 km) west of present-day
Kirksville along the Chariton River.
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