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Welcome to Dunklin
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Kinnett street scene 1912
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 Dunklin 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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County Data
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Brief
History:
Created February 14, 1845.
Stoddard County was divided by a line
running on the parallel of 36 30 and that
part of
the county south of the line was
called Dunklin County. Its boundaries were
fixed as follows: Beginning in the
middle of the main channel of the
St. Francois River at a point where the
state line between Missouri and Arkansas,
in latitude 36 30, leaves said
river; thence due east to the western
boundary of New Madrid County; thence
south
with said line to the southern
boundary of the state; thence west on said
line to middle of main channel of
St. Francois River; thence up the
middle of the river to the place of
beginning. In 1853 the north line of the
county
was moved nine miles north. The
territory included in this county, with
the exception of the nine mile strip, was
a
part of the territory originally
left in Arkansas, but was added to the
territory of Missouri through the efforts
of J.
Hardeman Walker. The county was
named for Honorable Daniel Dunklin,
governor of Missouri from 1832-1836.
He was born in 1790 near Greenville,
South Carolina, and came to Potosi,
Missouri in 1810. He was elected to the
first constitutional convention of
Missouri in 1820. In 1828 he was elected
lieutenant-governor, and at the close of
this term was elected governor. He
resigned in 1836 to accept the position of
surveyor general of Missouri,
Arkansas, and Illinois under
President Jackson. He traced the
boundaries of Missouri and Arkansas, and
it is
probably because of this connection
with the people of Dunklin County that the
county was named for him.
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