Clay County is blessed with an abundance of recorded history. Personal papers, books and newspapers help families today recreate how their ancestors lived in a very different time in history. Early settlers who followed the explorers, trappers and traders, literally built the county. While others continued the migration west, our pioneers settled and grew a …
Gallatin Township Land Grants, Now Staley Farms
The “Staley” Behind “Staley Farms” and all things that today carry that name The history of Staley Farms began with John Horace Staley. Born in 1873 in Willard, Greene County, Missouri. Mr. Staley had been involved in banking in Springfield prior to moving to Carthage where he became mayor. While living in Carthage, he became interested …
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