Marion County Genealogical Society

05/29/2024

The Historic Jefferson Foundation was given permission to have the DAR's Oakwood Cemetery index scanned to a PDF file. You can find that useful information by scrolling all the way to the bottom of this web page: http://www.historicjeffersonfoundation.com/index.html

The instructions are a little misleading. The link pictured below instructs the user to "Click to view..." The instructions should say "Click to download". In order to view and search the file you must open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader™.

06/01/2021

The latest in book offerings from the Cass County Genealogical Society:

06/01/2021

Join us Saturday June 5th, 2021 for our regular meeting. The ever interesting and authoritative Juanita Cawthon will present our program. We always enjoy a lively discussion as a little post program lagniappe. We meet from 10 AM until about 11 AM in the Fellowship Hall at the 1st Methodist Church, Jefferson.

01/12/2020

Miriam Blair found this interesting online article about identifying Civil War soldiers using artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition of old photographs:

Another great use of modern technology: David Morin in Exeter, N.H. owns a collection of more than 260 Civil War military pictures. Until now, many of the men in the photos remained a mystery to hi…

01/12/2020

Julianne Small Fischer found this drawing in her vast collection of Jefferson history; This is a drawing of the Badgett house, which was located on the corner of S. Line and E. Walker Streets.

Elizabeth Badgett had the house torn down since she was married and living in west Texas. She sold the lot to Mrs Nettie Mae Lemmon who built the pink brick house that is there now, probably in the mid-1960's.

Mrs Aline Badgett was a Culberson; her children are the ones who gave the garden club the bedroom set that belonged to Charles Culberson. They are connected to the Moseley family also. Can anyone explain how the Culbersons are connected to the Moseleys?

02/12/2018

Pictured here is Charles Steger, local genealogist/ historian extraordinaire talking about the history / genealogy of the famous Ringling Family Circus at the MCGS February meeting. In these photos, Charles is showing some of his many antique and collectible circus posters.

Did you know that at its' peak the Ringling Circus was transported by 4 trains of 40 cars each? Their "Big Top" tent was as large as a football field? They moved the entire operation overnight between towns?