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Welcome to Jasper
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Lakeside Park 1907
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 Jasper 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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Jasper
County Data
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Brief
History:
Jasper County is located in
the southwest portion of the U.S. state of
Missouri. Its county seat is Carthage, and
its largest
city is Joplin. The county was
organized in 1841 and named for William
Jasper, a hero of the American
Revolutionary War.
Before European contact, the area
that today makes up Jasper County was the
domain of the Osage Native Americans, who
called themselves the
"Children of the Middle Waters"
(Ni-U-Kon-Ska). A Siouan language tribe,
they had migrated west
and south centuries before from the
Ohio Valley.
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