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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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Use the box below to
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for Howell
County Data
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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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