Welcome to Howell County Missouri Genealogy Research



  


  
 

 
 


Ground breaking ceremony for Courthouse 1882

 
 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 Howell 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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 Brief History:

 
Howell County was organized on March 2, 1857, from Oregon County, and is named for Josiah Howell, who
 made the first settlement in Howell Valley.
 
 The first Circuit Court met in a log cabin one mile east of West Plains, according to an 1876 account. A small,
 wooden courthouse was built on the square in West Plains in 1859. It was damaged during the Civil War in 1862.
 The county was reorganized three years later, but all of the county records were destroyed in an 1866 fire. A second
 courthouse was built in West Plains in 1869. It was a small, three-room, frame building, about 24 by 30 feet. 
 













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