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From: Frank Gebhart <>
Subject: Re: [AR-RAILROADS] Railroad
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:53:04 -0800
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Jasper County is on the Missouri-Kansas border. My 1960 vintage
Hammmond's atlas shows the MoPac joining the St. Louis-San Francisco RR
just about at Carthage. Reynolds and Ripley Counties are in the
southeastern part of the state. Ripley is on the Mo-Ark border. Once
again the map shows the MoPac going into Ripley from the east as far as
Doniphan. The map doesn't show anything going into Reynolds, however the
MoPac goes north and south through Iron county directly east of Reynolds
co. In the 1870s that part of the MoPac line was known as the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern RR. I'm told that MoPac has some archives
somewhere. If you find them, please let me know. My ggf, John Slowey,
worked for the StLIM&S in the 1870s.

Frank Gebhart

wrote:
> Hi,
> My gr gr Grandfather worked for the railroad back in the 1870's. He was from
> Franklin Co. ILL. We have pictures of him standing by the railroad tracks. We
> were told that he was like a forman. On the census's that we have found him on
> it said that he was a tie maker. But of course that was on the 1880 -1900 -
> 1910 census. Before then we haven't been able to find him on any cesus. We know
> that 1880 he was in Jasper Co.,MO. he had a son that was born in KS. in 1879.
> In 1881 he was in Pearidge, Ark. That was where my gr. Grandfather was born.
> 1900 he was in Ripley Co.,Mo. and 1910 he was in Reynolds Co.,Mo. We think by
> then he wasn't any longer with the railroad.
> Here is my question. Does anyone know of what railroad it would have been
> that he worked on working in the areas that I gave here? And if so would there be
> any information to be found on him going back that far?
> Thank you,
> Paula
>
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