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Notes for Benjamin Hughes RUBOTTOM

Benjamin and Sarah Rubottom lived their whole lives in Greenville, Missouri, which is in the County of Wayne. This is some of the history of Wayne county, Missouri:

"The State of Wayne"
Wayne County was created in Dec 1818 by the last Missouri Territorial Legislature out of parts of Cape Girardeau and Lawrence Counties and thus predates the state of Missouri. In March 1819 Congress established the territory of Arkansas and most of Lawrence County, Missouri Territory became Lawrence County, Arkansas Territory. The small strip of "Old Lawrence County" that had been orphaned in Missouri was added to Wayne County by the State Constitution of 1820. The Osage Strip along the Kansas border was added in 1825. From 1825 to 1831 Wayne County was an enormous area larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware combined. All or part of 32 Missouri counties were at one time part of Wayne County.

When the county was formed, five commissioners were appointed to govern the county. They chose a small settlement known locally as Cedar Cabin located on the St Francis River to be the county seat and named it Greenville. In 1900 Greenville had a population of about 1,000. By 1940 the population had declined to 572. The town was relocated by the the construction of Wappapello Lake in 1941 and the new town only had a population of 270 in 1950. Today around 500 people live in Greenville.

The Wayne County courthouse burned in 1854. The records in the new courthouse were stolen in 1866 and in 1892 the courthouse burned again. As a result few official county records prior to 1893 survive. In the Census of 1820, the large area of Wayne County had a population of only 1,239 whites and 204 slaves, but unfortunately the list of Head of Households has been lost as were early local census records.

Lake Wappapello was built in 1941, and took all of the land belonging to the Rubottom Family.

To see some photo's of the Lake that covers the place where the " Rubottom Farm" and all of the surrounding are was please go to;

http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Wappapello/

Another site is:
http://www.mostateparks.com/lakewappapello.htm

Learn about the area of the Lake at:
http://www.mostateparks.com/lakewappapello/geninfo.htm

http://www.mostateparks.com/lakewappapello/map.htm

Photo page of the Lake:
http://www.mostateparks.com/lakewappapello/photos.htm
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