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Art A. Schweighauser Collection, 1713-1945 (C3762)
0.35 cubic feet (9 folders, 1 volume)
The collection contains items from the Bezold family of Montgomery and Gasconade Counties in Missouri. There are many school-related items from 1879-1917. Also included are sermons in German by Reverend Niedhammer and a family history of John Jacob Meunzenmayer, who lived in Franklin County.
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Scotland County Genealogical Society Collection, 1841-2021 (CA6609)
2.2 cubic feet, 4 card files
The collection contains material collected by the Scotland County Genealogical Society including photographs, funeral programs, county history, court records, tax records, marriage licenses, and miscellaneous documents.
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Scott Family Papers, 1841-1936 (C3033)
0.3 cubic feet (13 folders)
The Scott Family papers consist of correspondence and miscellaneous documents relating to the Lindsey-Kemp-Reeder family of Ohio and the Scott family of Columbia, Missouri, including the Civil War correspondence of William L. Kemp and the World War I correspondence of future University of Missouri professor D.R. Scott.
David S. Scott Papers, 1862-1863 (R0634)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The David S. Scott Papers contain the Civil War letters of David S. Scott, Co. H, 8th Indiana Infantry, written to Kate Missimer in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The letters, from Pilot Knob, Black River, Van Buren, and Oregon County, Missouri, concern camp life and the campaign of the Army of Southeastern Missouri.
Elvira Ascenith Weir Scott Diary, 1860-1887 (C1053)
0.2 cubic feet
Typescript photocopy of diary of a woman from Miami, Missouri, including descriptive observations on the themes of home, family, and religion, as well as the impact of the Civil War on life in her own community and region.
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Thomas A. Scott Loyalty Oath, 1864 (C2452)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a loyalty oath taken at Rock Island Barracks, IL, by a private in the 45th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry.
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Thomas A. Scott Prisoner of War Discharge, 1864 (C0475)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Discharge from Rock Island Barracks, Illinois, for a private in the 45th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry.
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Scrapbook, 1865-1882 (K0132)
1 MR
Newspaper clippings pertaining primarily to the Civil War and events immediately following, such as the assassination of President Lincoln. Chiefly the New Orleans Daily Picayune and the New Orleans Times, although other papers are included.
Laura Redden Searing Papers, 1846-1963 (C2290)
4.0 cubic feet (142 folders)
The papers of Laura Redden Searing, a poet and author whose works appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Searing’s writings. Also included are correspondence, publicity clippings, and photographs of Searing’s daughter, Elsa Searing McGinn.
Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.) Sabbath School Records, 1838-1886 (C1366)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)
Brief history of the school, list of officers, attendance records of pupils and teachers, conversions, records of events, reports of annual meetings and of superintendents, deaths, election of officers, missionary funds, and table showing condition of school.
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Seidel Family Records, 1865-1928 (CA6678)
21 oversize items
The records of the Seidel family include sacramental documents, school certificates, and a photograph of Co. D., 138th Division, 1919.
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Ernestine Ernst Seiter Papers, 1828-1985 (C4351)
1.75 cubic feet (23 folders), 1 oversize volume, 1 oversize item
The papers contain a transcription of James and Robert Aull letter books and daybooks from 1828-1851. Also includes an unidentified doctor’s account ledger from Lexington, Missouri, from 1872-1875; scrapbook of Ernestine Ernst Seiter; research on Lexington homes; and miscellaneous material.
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Jesse N. Self Papers, 1860-1863 (R0304)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Jesse N. Self Papers contain photocopies of letters to his family by Jesse N. Self, a schoolteacher at Irondale, Missouri, and captain of Company F, 32nd Missouri Infantry. The collection includes letters from Irondale, 1860, and from camps in Rolla and Benton Barracks in St. Louis, 1861-1862. Capt. Self died of erysipelas at Memphis, Tennessee, on February 25, 1863.
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Sellmeyer Family Collection, 1839-1990 (C3062)
1 roll of microfilm
Deeds, wills, family trees and photographs of three 19th-century immigrant families who settled in Missouri. The Velten and Ebeling families emigrated from Germany and settled in Warren County, while the Swedish Bentleys came to settle in Howard County. Also includes probate and census records, and a "Velten Family Record" narrative.
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Settle Family Papers, 1857-2008 (CG0026)
1.25 c. f.
Correspondence and photographs of the Settle, O'Bannon, and Rhodes families of Wayne County, Missouri and Arkansas. Also includes genealogy records, Bible, and report cards for Virgil E. Settle.
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Settoon Family Papers, 1838-1896 (C0980)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
Letters to and from the Settoon family of the Louisiana delta country concerning family and financial matters. The documents relate to property matters, including enslaved people.
Wilhelm and Augustus Seyffert Papers, 1854-1905 (C2888)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The papers of Wilhelm and Augustus Seyffert contain a copy book of poems in German (vol. 1), a history of Missouri State Militia, Company E, 13th Cavalry, and an account book of Augustus Seyffert, 1869-1889 (vol. 2).
John C. Shackelford Family Papers, 1847-1911 (C0404)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
Clippings, poems of Civil War and Confederacy, and correspondence. Letter from Warrensburg, August 25, 1861, mentions early Civil War events in Missouri.
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Thomas Shackelford Papers, 1820-1908 (C0163)
0.6 cubic feet
Personal and business letters, documents and memoirs of a lawyer and politician of Glasgow, MO. He was a member of the Missouri Convention of 1861 and of the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Includes family letters and letters relating to his legal practice and politics, a few of them pertaining to the Constitutional Convention of 1875.
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Shannon Family Papers, 1845-1960 (C0933)
0.13 cubic feet (6 folders)
Contains baccalaureate and other addresses by President James Shannon of the University of Missouri, some correspondence on religious matters, and family history and genealogy.
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Sharp Family Papers, 1845-1994 (K0553)
26.5 c.f.
Personal correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, slides, photographs and records the Sharp family and the Wells family of Kansas City, MO and Johnson County, KS. Includes the papers of Hazel Wells Sharp (1910-2002) an educator for more than 40 years who taught school in Kansas City, MO and in the Wiesbaden American Schools in Germany.
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Milton Shaw Papers, 1824-1921 (C0428)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Letters from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri discussing slaves; farm crops, implements, and stock; property indentures; church membership; trade; schools; and teaching. Genealogical materials on the Denton family. Originals on microfilm; typed copies in folders.
Charles K. Sheets Sr. Papers, 1847-1936 (C4079)
1 cubic foot (45 folders)
The papers of Charles K. Sheets Sr. contain family papers of the Berry, Bell, Sheets, and Blades families, and include marriages, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included in the collection is business material pertaining to Sheets’ business with Faulconer, Sheets & Co, in Montgomery City, Missouri.
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Joseph Orville Shelby Scrapbook, 1865-1932 (C3558)
0.1 cubic feet (1 oversize volume)
The collection contains clippings about the military career of a Civil War general from Missouri, newspaper accounts of his death in 1897, tributes, and correspondence.
Barbara Rosa Barnett Shelley Papers, 1850-1980 (K0049)
3 c.f.
Personal, business, and legal documents pertaining to the Barnett, Williamson, and Shelley families.
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Edward Martin Shepard Papers, 1844-1939 (C0164)
0.6 cubic feet
Notes, correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets of Shepard, a geologist and professor at Drury College, Springfield, MO.
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Sheppard Family Papers, 1844-1877 (C0429)
0.13 cubic feet (6 folders)
Miscellaneous letters from Philadelphia; Tennessee; Cincinnati; Springfield and St. Louis, MO; and England. A letter from Paris, TN, describes local preaching techniques.
Originals on microfilm; typed copies in folders.
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Thomas Sheppard Papers, 1854-1860 (C0950)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers contain two land deeds, one dated 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce, and the other dated 1860 and signed by President James Buchanan.
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George W. Shinn Papers, 1861 (CG0015)
0.11 cubic feet
This is a collection of six letters written by Private George W. Shinn, a Union soldier in the American Civil War, which also includes transcriptions and other information gathered by the donor about Shinn.
A seventh letter, written by Solomon Kittrell on May 19, 1861 in Butler County, Missouri, shares his current situation as a farmer, river levels, soldiers’ movements, and the transport of African Americans through the region.
Shirey Family Papers, 1855-1959 (SP0051)
0.4 cubic foot (21 folders, 2 photographs)
The Shirey Family Papers contain documents belonging to Etta Shirey and her family, including letters and postcards addressed to Etta, two diaries she kept, and her childhood school notes. The collection also contains publications that the Shirey family saved.
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Floyd C. Shoemaker Collection, 1804-1970 (P0341)
Composite Photograph of Gamma chapter, Pi Lambda Epsilon Fraternity; University of Missouri Columns; Northwest Missouri Press Association Annual Outing, Hotel Taneycomo, Rockaway Beach, 1948
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Dorothy Heckmann Shrader Papers, 1866-1976 (CA5925)
6 cubic feet
The papers of a Hermann, Missouri, writer and descendant of steamboat captain, Bill Heckmann. Includes newspaper clippings of happenings along Missouri’s waterways dating from the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Also includes genealogical information on the Heckmann family, maps of Missouri's rivers, and a few photographs of steamboats and river scenes.
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Noah Sidner Letter, 1862 (C1895)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a farewell letter to relatives in Paris, MO, from Palmyra, MO, Oct. 18 and 19, 1862, written from the federal military prison in Palmyra on the eve and morning of the day he was to be executed.
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Silliman Family Letters, 1862-1865 (C1831)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Two letters written by Mrs. Silliman to relatives from Warrensburg, MO, during the Civil War. She describes social conditions at the time and how [her son] evaded the draft.
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Claiborne Simmons Letter, 1863 (C3273)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To Mary Ann Simmons, from Tennessee, December 6, 1863. Written while in the Union army. Describes the weather and inquires after her health.
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Avington Wayne Simpson Diary, 1861-1865 (C2993)
1 roll of microfilm
This diary kept by a Polk County, MO, resident, contains short concise entries dealing with the daily events of a Confederate Missouri State Guard unit organized in July 1861. Simpson participated in the 1864 summer campaign through the Kennesaw Mountains, including the fall of Atlanta.
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Sims & Fitzgerald Commission Sales Company (St. Louis, Mo.) Records, 1866-1867 (C0643)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The records contain a fragment of a record book of a commission company dealing in cotton, hides, furs, tobacco, wheat, hemp, castor beans, and sorghum molasses. Lists cost of freight, marine insurance, government tax, commissions on sale, and record of sale.
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John James Sitton, Civil War Memoir Collection, circa 1900 (R0377)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The John James Sitton Civil War Memoir Collection contains a military history of the Oregon County, Missouri company of the 2nd Regiment, 7th Division, Missouri State Guard, July 4 through December 1, 1861. The narrative was written by John James Sitton, who also served in the 7th Division, but in a different regiment. Sitton became captain of the Oregon County men in later Confederate service. The memoir also includes biographical data on selected Oregon County soldiers.
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John James Sitton Papers, 1860-1913 (R1286)
(1 roll)
The John James Sitton Papers consists of a three volume journal, scrapbook, miscellaneous papers, and photographs, 1860-1913 of a Missouri confederate soldier and postwar resident of Oregon Coounty, Missouri. The journal, 1860-1882, documents service in the Missouri State Guard and other confederate units in Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi during the Civil War. It also includes his veterans activities and other aspects of Sitton's life.
Henry Ellison Skaggs Papers, 1862-1895 (R0247)
0.3 cubic foot (3 folders)
The Henry Ellison Skaggs Papers contains the diary and papers of Henry Ellison Skaggs, pertaining to his service in the 1st Missouri Cavalry in Missouri and Arkansas during the Civil War. Included are a diary, two letters from Little Rock, Arkansas, a photograph of Skaggs in uniform, and a group of prayers. There are also correspondence concerning his military pension and genealogical data.
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William Yarnel Slack Papers, 1847-1880 (C0398)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letters, newspaper clippings, and other items concerning the death of a Confederate general in the Battle of Elk Horn, MO, and the removal of the remains to Fayettville, AR.
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Alfred W. Slaughter Collection, 1857-2013 (C4620)
0.2 cubic feet (3 folders)
The collection contains a biographical sketch of Alfred W. Slaughter, a teacher who lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, as well as a volume titled "Slaughter and Abbot Genealogy" and a scrapbook, 1857-1913.
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Smiley Family Papers, 1804-1951 (C3671)
0.4 cubic feet (40 folders)
Correspondence, deeds, appointments, legal documents regarding suits and estates, receipts and business papers concerning Samuel W. Smiley, early settler and property owner in Lincoln County, Missouri. Similar material regarding his wife, children, relatives, and descendants is also included. The bulk of this collection dates from the 1820s to the 1840s.
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Smith Civil War Correspondence Collection, 1859-1863 (S1140)
0.04 cubic foot, 16 folders, 1 DVD
The letters consist of reproductions of correspondence from Lieutenant H.H. Smith to his father during the Civil War. Smith served in the Union army in the 17th Regiment Indiana Volunteers and the 49th Indiana Regiment. The collection contains photocopies of the correspondence and a DVD that contains digitized versions of the documents.
Charles H. Smith Letters, 1833-1887 (K0079)
0.09 c.f. (3 folders)
Civil War era letters concerning life in camp and the death of Charles H. Smith in battle near Stafford Courthouse, Virginia, in May 1863. Includes family tintypes and photographs.
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George R. Smith Papers, 1835-1899 (C1028)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
The papers of George R. Smith contain correspondence, miscellaneous personal and business papers, and speeches of a Sedalia, Missouri, lawyer and businessman. Smith was influential in the establishment of the Missouri Pacific Railway.
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Henry Ackerman Smith Papers, 1861-1907 (C0431)
2 rolls of microfilm
Papers of a teacher and Methodist minister who lived in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. Includes letters written to his wife, 1861-1862, while in the Union army; autobiography, genealogical information; record of marriages performed, 1884-1905; diary, 1882-1907; a newspaper article; and photographs.
Nathan Lipscomb Smith Letters, 1838-1869 (C3823)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains photocopies of personal letters from Franklin County, Missouri, farmer Nathan L. Smith to his brother William D. Smith in Todd County, Kentucky. Includes Smith family genealogy to 1858, a list of census and church references to Nathan Smith, and one letter from John and Mary Frances (Smith) Fox to William D. Smith and his sister Caroline.
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Thomas Adams Smith Papers, 1798-1864 (C1029)
1 cubic foot; also available on 2 rolls of microfilm
Correspondence, letterbooks, and official papers of a professional soldier, who served in Florida and on the Canadian front and later was commander of the 9th Military Department at Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, MO. From 1818 to 1829 Smith was receiver of public monies at the land office in Franklin, MO.
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Thomas Adams Smith Papers, 1852-1919 (C0166)
0.2 cubic feet (11 folders), 2 oversize volumes, 2 rolls of microfilm
The papers of a Saline County, Missouri, doctor, and landowner include family correspondence, clippings, miscellaneous bills and papers, and a copy of a record book providing the births, death, and sales of enslaved people belonging to the estate of Thomas Adams Smith and Crawford Early Smith.