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Welcome to Audrain
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Audrain County Fair 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 Audrain 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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for Audrain
County Data
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Brief
History:
Audrain county was formed from a
non-county area with portions under the
administration of Montgomery,
Callaway, Boone, Ralls, or Monroe
counties at various times prior to its
official establishment in 1836. Thus,
records for locations now in Audrain
prior to 1836 may indicate location in
those counties instead. Some details
have been summarized on the website
of the Northeast Missouri Genealogy
Village, and a dynamic map showing
some of the changes is on the
'mapgeeks' website showing historical maps
of the states of the USA.
Today's Audrain County historical
website data (see 'External Links' below)
indicates that the county was divided
about 50/50 during the historic US
Civil War and that US Army Commander
General Ulysses Grant was resident
there briefly during that time.
While Audrain county shared some history
with neighboring counties, it does not
border the Missouri River.
According to some Confederate
historian publications, Audrain County was
one of several nearby counties settled
by migrants from the Upper South,
especially Kentucky and Tennessee; that
some brought slaves and slaveholding
traditions with them, cultivating
crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee
and Kentucky such as hemp and
tobacco, or brought antebellum
architecture and culture; and that the
county was considered by those historians
to
be in the heart of what was called
"Little Dixie".
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