Does Anyone Know Where I Can First-person Accounts Of Living On A Small Farm In Missouri In The 1850s-1860s?

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[arber47]

LglSec, regarding your answer "Not much help, but I tried":Thanks for your help -- I'll do that!

[Edsel]

The Rural Missourian. Although modern it combines present day events on Amish farms(where many of the old ways still hold) with bits of history. One entry begins with:"I thought I would stop and spend a little time enjoying a glimpse of the past with you, as there is so much to learn from it, especially in developing a better perspective of where we have come and where we are going. Since moving to Rayville seven years ago, I have really enjoyed and profited from learning what history I have of Missouri, especially Ray County ? which was once known as the ?Free State of Ray? ? and of course Rayville, which is situated in the heart of a little known region called ?Little Dixie,? a major hotspot during The War of Northern Aggression. Jesse and Frank James grew up on a farm about twenty miles northwest of Rayville and Bob Ford, the scoundrel that murdered him, grew up about 2 miles east of here."There is also http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/ where people today are deliberately choosing to live tha way folks did back then.----------------------------------------------------------------Some possible titles that include first person accounts from that time from http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner/bibliographies/MOadultauthors.asp:German Settlement in Missouri. WOD 564. German immigrants and their descendants played a crucial role in the settlement and development of Missouri's architectural, political, religious, economic and social landscape. Relying heavily on unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri. WOD 410. This book discusses the underlying causes of the Civil War as they relate to Missouri and reveals how the war helped create both the legend and the reality of Jesse James and his gang. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. Quinine and Quarantine. WOD 470.Presenting a fascinating overview of medicine in Missouri from the early days of epidemics to current technological advances, this book approaches the history of medicine as an integral part of the state's development. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. And from http://press.umsystem.edu/subject.htmHardship and HopeMissouri Women Writing about Their Lives, 1820-1920Edited with an Introduction by Carla Waal and Barbara Oliver KornerISBN 0-8262-1120-8328 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 1997$24.95t paper Hold Dear, As AlwaysJette, a German Immigrant Life in LettersEdited by Adolf E. Schroeder and Carla Schulz-GeisbergTranslated by Adolf E. Schroeder ISBN 978-0-8262-0658-9320 pages6 1/2 x 9 1/4 39 illustrations, index$44.95d Writing the Pioneer WomanJanet FloydISBN 0-8262-1381-2240 pages 6 x 9bibliography, index, illustrations, 2002$39.95s Immigrant Women in the Settlement of MissouriRobyn Burnett and Ken LuebberingISBN 0-8262-1591-2168 pages6 x 9 35 illustrations, index, bibliography $12.95t paper

[Laurent]

First go to Rootsweb, click on Missouri and then the county you are interested in where the town Arrow Rock is located, once at that site you can submit a query.

[Garcia]

MD123 said: 1 LglSec, regarding your answer "Not much help, but I tried":Thanks for your help -- I'll do that! 77 months ago

[Fridgeir]

Published privately, 1997. Document protrays Missouri family farm life, history and genealogy from the early 1800s to present in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri. An Ethnohistorical discussion also documents the lives of Native Americans, Black Slaves, Southern and German Settlers in this area. Ample documentation and suggested readings are cited throughout the text, oral history, pictorial history and GEDCOM genealogical file of 1,000 individuals. Additionally, the village life of Germans from the Teutoburger Wald is presented from the earliest of recorded history to the present. LMShttp://www.lowellschake.com/The Schakes of La Charette, 1855-1996April 18, 2006This was my first post-retirement project lasting from 1995-1999. My interest in La Charrette Village intensified after learning that all of my ancestors disembarked at old La Charrette Landing on the Missouri River upon arriving from Germany. Notice that La Charette carries only one ?r? in this spelling, one of the many alternate ways it appears in older documents. It was not until a year or so into village research that I became fully aware that my families had actually owned many of old La Charrette Village farms.The Schakes of La Charette, 1855-1996This story of our Schake family from Humfeld, Lippe(Germany) of the Teutoburger Forest with related history and Ethnohistories is lovingly dedicated to the first Schake mother of America. Wilhelmine Friederike Kuhfuss Schake came to the SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farms in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri with her farmer and blacksmith husband Kurt in 1855. To this day we do not know when she died or where she is buried. Little apparently was recorded on her behalf. We have every reason to believe she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.This family history is typical of the German experience in Missouri?s German Belt. It is presented in four parts;Part One - Auswandering(Wandering-out or away from home)Part Two - GenealogiesPart Three - Schake Pictorial HistoryPart Four - Oral HistoryMore about the book here.http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowarren/schake/intro.htmlDedicationThis story of our Schake family from Humfeld, Lippe(Germany) of the Teutoburger Forest with related history and Ethnohistories is lovingly dedicated to the first Schake mother of America. Wilhelmine Friederike Kuhfuss Schake came to the SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farms in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri with her farmer and blacksmith husband Kurt in 1855. To this day we do not know when she died or where she is buried. Little apparently was recorded on her behalf. We have every reason to believe she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.(As of August 1998 Lois Gerstenberger Butler, a great granddaughter of Johann Heinrich Franz Schake of Cleveland Ohio, a half-brother of Johann Cord Christoph Schake, informed us that her great Aunt Mary Schake had a book of dates. Lois now has this book which documents the death date of Friederike as March 17, 1895. The Missouri and Ohio Schake families corresponded into the early 1900s allowing us to recover this date. Since no tombstone marks the gravesite of Friederikes, the Schakes of La Charette are arranging for one to be placed there.)While searching the Marthasville, Missouri ´ Kirche´ records of the 1892 church book we found the following entry listed among her neighbors, fellow church members and her family:Thank you Friedericke, and all other Schake ´Mutters´ who nurtured their families and added so much to our lives - past, present and future - with the assurance that your contributions have not been forgotten. - - The Schake Families of La CharetteTHE SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE1855 -- 1996Lowell M. Schake and Family, AuthorsPrefaceIt would almost seem unnatural not to wonder about one´ heritage. We each represent the culmination of earlier happenings passed on through our culture and by genetic and physiological processes. In short, we are the sum of our heredity and of our environment. Environment in this case takes on the broad definition of society, family and physical environment, i.e., everything not genetic. Generations of the future will have greater difficulty in capturing certain aspects of their past if an attempt is not now initiated to document what is known. The process of recording family heritage would be much more accurate and easily compiled if it had been accomplished as it was lived -- one generation at a time. Unfortunately this has not been the case in our family except in the most recent past.A strict record of genealogy, while interesting and necessary to this process, somehow seems incomplete without information offering insights into the lives and times of all the people represented. Where did they live? Who lived there previously? Who were their forgotten ancestors? How were their communities established? Who discovered, explored and exploited these sites? Why did they choose to live there? What constituted their daily routines of work, family and society? Did they worry and struggle to accomplish their aspirations in life any differently than we? And most importantly, did their lives represent what they intended? These and many other questions are interesting to contemplate, but in reality very difficult to document with accuracy. Most of recorded history is about military, church or political leaders, creators, inventors or developers within society and mostly recorded by those who could write. Precious little is known of the daily thoughts and actions of those who were the peasants, the illiterate and those otherwise taken for granted. Most of us, and all of our Schake ancestors, fit within this little represented category of history. Except for oral history and what may be gleaned from archaeological evidence we are unable to probe into the past of most human lives. Ironically it is the masses of humankind that have contributed the most to our genetic heritage, yet they have the least recorded on their behalf. At this level much of human history appears to be the result of our innate curiosity, the common everyday struggles of life, a desire to improve upon life by our urge to find a better place to live, to explore and wander, or wanderlust. Perhaps the 1700 Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant expressed this concept most succinctly when writing his Eternal Peace and other Essays, "The history of the human race, when viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally and externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed." We are able to document that three of our four grandparents attended school for perhaps a few winter months of 3 or 4 years. It is unknown how much training Adolph Schake received either in Germany or Missouri, although we know he could read. His father, Kurt Schake signed his last will and testament of January 25, 1890 with an ´.´ With respect for the contributions of those who have preceded us, but were unable to completely record their lives and to whom we owe so much, we happily undertake this opportunity to capture as much Schake heritage as possible before it becomes further obscured by age or time. This genealogical ethnology is organized to capture, as accurately as possible, the contributions and events of the earliest peoples whose presence from around the world has influenced the lives of those of us who lived at The SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farm for a brief moment in the span of time, to document the merging of three distinct cultures into one, and to chronicle the heritage, the families, farms and communities of those we acknowledge as our ancestors while at the same time attempting to capture the life styles of a lot of very wonderful hard-working everyday people struggling through life with ambitions largely unknown to us today. They gave us our culture and lives, along with a much better than average chance to live them.This work is presented in four components to better portray details and perhaps enhance readability. Part One deals with the compelling human urge to travel, explore or to wander-out, auswanderung in German, as rendered in this history and Ethnohistory of SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE. Part Two is our Schake genealogy, Part Three chronicles our pictorial history and Part Four depicts an oral history of the Schake family as we knew it.The following surnames are the major ones presented in the GEDCOM file, representing over 3500 individuals which include the collateral relatives and their families representing several hundred surnames in total.

[Tzadok]

LindaD said: 2 First go to Rootsweb, click on Missouri and then the county you are interested in where the town Arrow Rock is located, once at that site you can submit a query. 64 months ago

[Worrell]

"The Schakes of La Charette," Published privately, 1997. Document protrays Missouri family farm life, history and genealogy from the early 1800s to present in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri. An Ethnohistorical discussion also documents the lives of Native Americans, Black Slaves, Southern and German Settlers in this area. Ample documentation and suggested readings are cited throughout the text, oral history, pictorial history and GEDCOM genealogical file of 1,000 individuals. Additionally, the village life of Germans from the Teutoburger Wald is presented from the earliest of recorded history to the present. LMShttp://www.lowellschake.com/The Schakes of La Charette, 1855-1996April 18, 2006This was my first post-retirement project lasting from 1995-1999. My interest in La Charrette Village intensified after learning that all of my ancestors disembarked at old La Charrette Landing on the Missouri River upon arriving from Germany. Notice that La Charette carries only one ?r? in this spelling, one of the many alternate ways it appears in older documents. It was not until a year or so into village research that I became fully aware that my families had actually owned many of old La Charrette Village farms.The Schakes of La Charette, 1855-1996This story of our Schake family from Humfeld, Lippe(Germany) of the Teutoburger Forest with related history and Ethnohistories is lovingly dedicated to the first Schake mother of America. Wilhelmine Friederike Kuhfuss Schake came to the SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farms in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri with her farmer and blacksmith husband Kurt in 1855. To this day we do not know when she died or where she is buried. Little apparently was recorded on her behalf. We have every reason to believe she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.This family history is typical of the German experience in Missouri?s German Belt. It is presented in four parts;Part One - Auswandering(Wandering-out or away from home)Part Two - GenealogiesPart Three - Schake Pictorial HistoryPart Four - Oral HistoryMore about the book here.http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowarren/schake/intro.htmlDedicationThis story of our Schake family from Humfeld, Lippe(Germany) of the Teutoburger Forest with related history and Ethnohistories is lovingly dedicated to the first Schake mother of America. Wilhelmine Friederike Kuhfuss Schake came to the SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farms in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri with her farmer and blacksmith husband Kurt in 1855. To this day we do not know when she died or where she is buried. Little apparently was recorded on her behalf. We have every reason to believe she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.(As of August 1998 Lois Gerstenberger Butler, a great granddaughter of Johann Heinrich Franz Schake of Cleveland Ohio, a half-brother of Johann Cord Christoph Schake, informed us that her great Aunt Mary Schake had a book of dates. Lois now has this book which documents the death date of Friederike as March 17, 1895. The Missouri and Ohio Schake families corresponded into the early 1900s allowing us to recover this date. Since no tombstone marks the gravesite of Friederikes, the Schakes of La Charette are arranging for one to be placed there.)While searching the Marthasville, Missouri ´ Kirche´ records of the 1892 church book we found the following entry listed among her neighbors, fellow church members and her family:Thank you Friedericke, and all other Schake ´Mutters´ who nurtured their families and added so much to our lives - past, present and future - with the assurance that your contributions have not been forgotten. - - The Schake Families of La CharetteTHE SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE1855 -- 1996Lowell M. Schake and Family, AuthorsPrefaceIt would almost seem unnatural not to wonder about one´ heritage. We each represent the culmination of earlier happenings passed on through our culture and by genetic and physiological processes. In short, we are the sum of our heredity and of our environment. Environment in this case takes on the broad definition of society, family and physical environment, i.e., everything not genetic. Generations of the future will have greater difficulty in capturing certain aspects of their past if an attempt is not now initiated to document what is known. The process of recording family heritage would be much more accurate and easily compiled if it had been accomplished as it was lived -- one generation at a time. Unfortunately this has not been the case in our family except in the most recent past.A strict record of genealogy, while interesting and necessary to this process, somehow seems incomplete without information offering insights into the lives and times of all the people represented. Where did they live? Who lived there previously? Who were their forgotten ancestors? How were their communities established? Who discovered, explored and exploited these sites? Why did they choose to live there? What constituted their daily routines of work, family and society? Did they worry and struggle to accomplish their aspirations in life any differently than we? And most importantly, did their lives represent what they intended? These and many other questions are interesting to contemplate, but in reality very difficult to document with accuracy. Most of recorded history is about military, church or political leaders, creators, inventors or developers within society and mostly recorded by those who could write. Precious little is known of the daily thoughts and actions of those who were the peasants, the illiterate and those otherwise taken for granted. Most of us, and all of our Schake ancestors, fit within this little represented category of history. Except for oral history and what may be gleaned from archaeological evidence we are unable to probe into the past of most human lives. Ironically it is the masses of humankind that have contributed the most to our genetic heritage, yet they have the least recorded on their behalf. At this level much of human history appears to be the result of our innate curiosity, the common everyday struggles of life, a desire to improve upon life by our urge to find a better place to live, to explore and wander, or wanderlust. Perhaps the 1700 Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant expressed this concept most succinctly when writing his Eternal Peace and other Essays, "The history of the human race, when viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally and externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed." We are able to document that three of our four grandparents attended school for perhaps a few winter months of 3 or 4 years. It is unknown how much training Adolph Schake received either in Germany or Missouri, although we know he could read. His father, Kurt Schake signed his last will and testament of January 25, 1890 with an ´.´ With respect for the contributions of those who have preceded us, but were unable to completely record their lives and to whom we owe so much, we happily undertake this opportunity to capture as much Schake heritage as possible before it becomes further obscured by age or time. This genealogical ethnology is organized to capture, as accurately as possible, the contributions and events of the earliest peoples whose presence from around the world has influenced the lives of those of us who lived at The SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farm for a brief moment in the span of time, to document the merging of three distinct cultures into one, and to chronicle the heritage, the families, farms and communities of those we acknowledge as our ancestors while at the same time attempting to capture the life styles of a lot of very wonderful hard-working everyday people struggling through life with ambitions largely unknown to us today. They gave us our culture and lives, along with a much better than average chance to live them.This work is presented in four components to better portray details and perhaps enhance readability. Part One deals with the compelling human urge to travel, explore or to wander-out, auswanderung in German, as rendered in this history and Ethnohistory of SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE. Part Two is our Schake genealogy, Part Three chronicles our pictorial history and Part Four depicts an oral history of the Schake family as we knew it.The following surnames are the major ones presented in the GEDCOM file, representing over 3500 individuals which include the collateral relatives and their families representing several hundred surnames in total. Sources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/missouri.html awarulz 77 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Gili]

http://www.reedersalley.com/PioneerCabin/SourcesofItemsinthePioneerCabin.pdf I searched and searched the internet for you.  You may have to visit some archives in a library or maybe even call Missouri Library and see if something can be faxed to you.  Good Luck

[Colbert]

You might consider checking out... The Rural Missourian. Although modern it combines present day events on Amish farms(where many of the old ways still hold) with bits of history. One entry begins with:"I thought I would stop and spend a little time enjoying a glimpse of the past with you, as there is so much to learn from it, especially in developing a better perspective of where we have come and where we are going. Since moving to Rayville seven years ago, I have really enjoyed and profited from learning what history I have of Missouri, especially Ray County ? which was once known as the ?Free State of Ray? ? and of course Rayville, which is situated in the heart of a little known region called ?Little Dixie,? a major hotspot during The War of Northern Aggression. Jesse and Frank James grew up on a farm about twenty miles northwest of Rayville and Bob Ford, the scoundrel that murdered him, grew up about 2 miles east of here."There is also http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/ where people today are deliberately choosing to live tha way folks did back then.----------------------------------------------------------------Some possible titles that include first person accounts from that time from http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner/bibliographies/MOadultauthors.asp:German Settlement in Missouri. WOD 564. German immigrants and their descendants played a crucial role in the settlement and development of Missouri's architectural, political, religious, economic and social landscape. Relying heavily on unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri. WOD 410. This book discusses the underlying causes of the Civil War as they relate to Missouri and reveals how the war helped create both the legend and the reality of Jesse James and his gang. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. Quinine and Quarantine. WOD 470.Presenting a fascinating overview of medicine in Missouri from the early days of epidemics to current technological advances, this book approaches the history of medicine as an integral part of the state's development. A Missouri Heritage Reader. Series Code MOHR. And from http://press.umsystem.edu/subject.htmHardship and HopeMissouri Women Writing about Their Lives, 1820-1920Edited with an Introduction by Carla Waal and Barbara Oliver KornerISBN 0-8262-1120-8328 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 1997$24.95t paper Hold Dear, As AlwaysJette, a German Immigrant Life in LettersEdited by Adolf E. Schroeder and Carla Schulz-GeisbergTranslated by Adolf E. Schroeder ISBN 978-0-8262-0658-9320 pages6 1/2 x 9 1/4 39 illustrations, index$44.95d Writing the Pioneer WomanJanet FloydISBN 0-8262-1381-2240 pages 6 x 9bibliography, index, illustrations, 2002$39.95s Immigrant Women in the Settlement of MissouriRobyn Burnett and Ken LuebberingISBN 0-8262-1591-2168 pages6 x 9 35 illustrations, index, bibliography $12.95t paper Sources: http://ruralmissourian.christianagrarian.com/?p=61 AND others cited in answer darwin? 77 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.