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I was born at Deer Creek, Osage Co Mo. in my grandmother's home,and altho we moved away when I was 10, I always say I was born and raised there, why?..because it was home. My Aunts and Uncles,and Cousins of both my parents lived there..as I said "it was home". Maybe because the memories of growing up there are still strong. We visited frequently, spent summer vacations there growing up. It is full of memories good and bad..funerals, weddings, reunions and just plain ole week-end trips home because we were homesick. My dad probably gave us that closeness..anytime he made that trip he would say he "was going up home" and it came as natural to us as it was to him and as time went by and the older we got, the trips became less and less, and to talk to my Aunts and Uncles, and Cousins today is as if time has not passed, the closeness is still there because there is always a sense of belonging.
A lot has been done on the Shockley's, which has made the search an easier task then those who went before us, and with the internet the search for information and the amount of information found is almost overwhelming. The most recent research being a double volume done on the descendants of Richard Shockley and Elizabeth Adkins, Now, if someone would do a volume on family photo's..
UPDATED SEPT 2013
Bev Oaker has a great site listing the Cemeteries of Maries, Osage, & Gasconade Counties , she also has a CD for Sale at an affordable price.
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My surnames with roots in Osage County, Missouri: Aud, Barbarick, Crider, Davis, Duncan, Hassler, Jett, Lemmons, McKinney, Owens, Shockley, Simpson, Williams, and Wolfe
Surnames associated with Missouri and Oklahoma: Crabtree, Crum, Ferris, Hemphill, Dyson, Logan,
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