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Welcome to Pemiscot
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Riverboat on the Mississippi at
Caruthersville
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 Pemiscot 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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Pemiscot
County Data
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Brief
History:
Pemiscot County is a county
located in the southeastern corner in the
Bootheel in the U.S. state of Missouri,
with the
Mississippi River forming its
eastern border. The largest city and
county seat is Caruthersville. The county
was
officially organized on February 19,
1851. It is named for the local bayou,
taken from the word pem-eskaw, meaning
"liquid mud", in the language of the
native Fox (Meskwaki) people. This has
been an area of cotton plantations and
later other commodity crops.
Bordering the river and its floodplain,
the county was devoted to agricultural
development and commodity crops. In
the 19th and early 20th centuries, the
major commodity crop was cotton,
which was worked at the beginning
mainly by enslaved African Americans.
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