The Beginning
The County Clerk has birth and death records for 1883-1893 and burial records.
Circuit Clerk has marriage, divorce, court, and naturalization records from 1819 and land records from 1812.
Associate Circuit Court has probate records from 1828. Statewide registration for births and deaths started in 1910. General compliance for births was achieved by 1927, and deaths by 1911.
Populated Places In Cooper County
Villages and Unincorporated Communities
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A History of Cooper County, Missouri. 1876. by Henry C. Levens and Nathaniel M. Drake. St. Louis: Perrin & Smith. Online at Google Books; and at Missouri Digital History
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History of Cooper County, Missouri. 1919. by William Foreman Johnson. Topeka, Kansas: Historical Publishing Co. Online at: FamilySearch; and at Missouri Digital History
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History of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri. 1883. St. Louis: National Historical Co. Online at: FamilySearch
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History of Missouri's Counties, County Seats, and Courthouse Squares. 1983. by Marian M. Ohman. Missouri: Missouri State Library. Online at: Missouri Digital History
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Melton's History of Cooper County, Missouri. 1987. by Elston Joseph Melton. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. Online at: FamilySearch
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Short Historical Sketches of Boonville and Vicinity. 1928. by J. B. Barnes. Boonville, Mo.: Boonville Advertiser?. Online at: FamilySearch
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State of Missouri: an autobiography. 1904. by Walter Williams. Columbia, Mo: Press of E. W. Stephens. Online at: Missouri Digital History
Sources and Resources
* "Cooper County, Missouri, 1857," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/28298.