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Welcome to Butler
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Poplar Bluff, MO 1910
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 Butler 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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Butler
County Data
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Brief
History:
Butler County is a
county located in the southeast Ozark
Foothills Region in the U.S. state of
Missouri.
The largest city and county seat is
Poplar Bluff. The county was officially
organized from Wayne County on
February 27, 1849, and is named
after former U.S. Representative William
O. Butler (D-Kentucky), who was also an
unsuccessful candidate for Vice
President of the United States. The first
meeting in the Butler County Courthouse
was
held on June 18, 1849.
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