1890 Special Enumeration - Union Veteran’s Census  Transcription available at: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/washington/census/1890wash.txt

CEMETERY, BURIAL & DEATH RECORDS

Cemetery Records for Washington County available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowashin/cemetery/wccem.html

Missouri Certificates of Death. Searchable database at  http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/Default.asp

White Funeral Home Register, Caledonia, Mo, Sept. 8, 1907 to October 1924.  Transcribed in May 1991 from original records for the Iron County Historical Society by Betty L. Russell. 

CIVIL WAR

Record Book of John B. Bell, Examining Physician in Washington Co., Potosi, Mo., for Dept. of Interior, 1860-1864.“  Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Rolla, MO. Original at http://web.umr.edu/~whmcinfo/shelf5/r119/info.html

USCT United States Colored Troops. For a description of each regiment’s service and a roster of names, see http://ranger95.crosswinds.net/us_color_troops/index.html:

• 1st MO Colored Infantry (62nd USCT)
• 2nd MO Colored Infantry (65th USCT)
• 3rd MO Colored Infantry (67th USCT)
• 4th MO Colored Infantry (68th USCT)

HISTORY

Bellevue Beautiful View: Bellevue Valley Missouri History - - 1981. Published by the Bellevue Valley History Society, 1983.  This 864-page book, a wealth of information on the white families of Washington County, scarcely mentions African-Americans.

Flanders, Robert. "The Kith and Kin of Caledonia" Ozarkswatch.

Frazier, Harriet C. Slavery and Crime in Missouri 1773-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co,  .2001

Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2004.

Moore, Adella Breckenridge. History of the Bellevue Presbyterian Church at Caledonia.1949. Independent-Journal Reprint Ed., Dec. 1967.

TNolen, Rose M. Hoecakes, Hambone, and All That Jazz. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003.imeline of Missouri's African-American History.  Missouri State Archives, 6510Jefferson City, MO.

MARRIAGE RECORDS

Washington County Marriage Book, 1865-1875 - Blacks only, with Births.

On Feb. 15, 1865, “cohabiting” free blacks were allowed to legally marry and their “reputed” children made legitimate; in each entry, after the names of the bride and groom, it states, “Negroes who have heretofore cohabited together as husband and wife while held as slaves.” The first entry in the marriage book is for Philip Langford and Francis Smith. Langford, a minister of the gospel, performed many of the subsequent marriages.

Washington Co. Marriages, 1815 - 1937. Also includes lookups for counties of Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Iron, St. Francois, and Ste. Genevieve. http://vienici.com/moabs/xmarrwash/xa-bo.html

Washington County Marriage Books #34 & #35 (13 Mar 1897 thru 16 Sept 1911)

SLAVE RECORDS

Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1720-1865, Illinois State Archives. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999.

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-38, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. For further discussion of narratives: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Washington County Court Records, Blacks - 1845-1851; Box 10; Reel C8892 (87 pages) Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO 65101. This file consists of indenture records and bonds of freedom.

Washington County Probate Records. Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO

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