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Welcome to Dallas
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Buffalo MO circa 1925
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 Dallas 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 Dallas
County Data
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Brief
History:
Settled in the 1830's by
pioneers primarily from Tennessee,
Indiana, and Ohio, Dallas County is part
of territory
ceded by Osage Indians in 1808.
The county was organized in 1841 as
Niangua County, named after the river
which bisects it south to north. In
1844 it was renamed Dallas County,
after U.S. Vice President George M.
Dallas.
Buffalo, the county seat, was
founded in 1841 on Buffalo Head
Prairie. The prairie, and
subsequently the town,
was named for a buffalo skull
landmark erected by the first settler,
Mark Reynolds, in 1833 near the present
junction of U.S. Highway 65 and
Missouri Highway 32.
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