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Welcome to Lafayette
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Original 7th Missouri Infantry
at the town courthouse, Lexington Missouri in
early May of 1862, being presented their U.S.
National Colors by the citizens of Lexington.
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 Lafayette 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
search for
Lafayette
County Data
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Brief
History:
Lafayette County is a county
located in the western portion of the U.S.
state of Missouri and is part of the
Kansas City
metropolitan area. Its county seat
is Lexington. The county was organized
November 16, 1820 from Cooper County and
originally named Lillard County for
James Lillard of Tennessee, who served in
the first state constitutional
convention and
first state legislature. It
was renamed Lafayette County on February
16, 1825, in honor of Revolutionary War
hero
the Marquis de La Fayette, who was
then visiting the United States.
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