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Welcome to Saline
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Gilliam Mo circa 1925
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 Saline 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 Saline
County Data
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Brief
History:
Saline County was occupied for
thousands of years by succeeding cultures
of Missouri Native Americans. Saline
County was organized by
European-American settlers on November 25,
1820, and was named from the salinity of
the springs found in the region.
After periods of conflict as settlers
competed for resources and encroached on
their territory, the local Native
Americans, including the Osage nation,
were forced by the U.S. government to move
to reservations in Indian Territory,
first in Kansas and then in Oklahoma.
Saline County was among several
along the Missouri River that were settled
primarily by migrants from the Upper
South states of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia. The settlers quickly started
cultivating crops similar to those in
Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp
and tobacco; they had brought enslaved
people with them to central
Missouri, or purchased them from
slave traders. These counties settled by
southerners became known as "Little
Dixie."
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