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Welcome to Ralls County
Missouri Genealogy Research
New London, Mo circa 1900
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 Ralls 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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Ralls
County Data
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Brief
History:
Ralls County is a county
located in the northeastern portion of the
U.S. state of Missouri.
The county was organized November
16, 1820 and named for Daniel Ralls,
Missouri state legislator.
Ralls County is part of the
Hannibal, MO Micropolitan Statistical
Area, which is also included in the
Quincy-Hannibal, IL-MO Combined
Statistical Area. Ralls County was
one of several along the Mississippi River
settled
in the early years primarily by
European-American migrants from the
Upper South, especially Kentucky and
Tennessee.
They brought slaves and slaveholding
traditions with them, and quickly
started cultivating crops similar to those
in Middle
Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and
tobacco. They also brought characteristic
antebellum architecture and culture. Ralls
is
considered one of the counties in
the outer ring of what is called the
Little Dixie region
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