The school year is in full swing, Halloween is over and the weather is starting to feel more like winter.  Now is the time of year my thoughts and free time turn back to genealogy.  While in Sedalia over Thanksgiving I drove to Crown Hill cemetery.  I had read there was a marker for Captain [...]

Richard P. Sappington From the: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co pg 543 Windsor Township Richard P. Sappington, farmer and stockman, proprietor of an excellent farm of 170 acres in Windsor township, was born on the identical tract of land on which he is now living December 23, 1863. [...]

     I went to the New Salem Baptist Church and Cemetery yesterday to see the Sappington graves.  It is quite ironic my family is buried there since I have driven past the church and cemetery hundreds of times never thinking I had family buried there.  My mother always told me her Sappington’s were from the [...]

The following image was taken from Nancy Sappington’s probate file.  Nancy Sappington was the wife of R. Sappington, probably Richard and the mother of Green, Foster, Squire, Elizabeth, Mark, John, Sarah and Mary Sappington.  The image shows the payment of $51.05 each from Nancy’s estate.  Nancy died in Boone County, Missouri in 1844.  The following names are [...]