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Pemiscot was organized February 19,1851 from New Madrid County and named for the Indian Word meaning 'liquid mud'. The county seat of Pemiscot is the city of Caruthersville. The first county seat was Gayoso, Missouri. There were three different buildings used as courthouses in Gayoso. One courthouse burned in 1882. That is why there are so few records before 1882. It was rebuilt, then because the Mississippi was eroding the land Gayoso was sitting on, the courthouse was moved to Caruthersville in 1899. There have been two different courthouses in Caruthersville.
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Birthdate information given on Ancestrial file: 21 Jun 1820
Cemetery Inscription Records has 20 March, 1820 as birthdate. The Well Parish Register gives the Baptismal date as 9 April 1820.
Obit from Pem Historical Society Quarterly spring 2007 p. 4484: July 31, Wilks, John, buried today. One of the oldest men in the county.
Gus Holley and Missouri Goad were married in 1913. Gus is the son of Sylavette Holley of Warrick County, IN. His brother, Fredrick Issiah Holley is shown in the picture to the right. Missouri Bell Goad is the daughter of Samuel Goad and Eliza Kight. She was born on 19 May 1891 in Arkansas (death Certificate says Pemiscot Co., MO). Residence 1900 in Little Prairie, Pemiscot, Missouri. She died on 09 Nov 1923 in Caruthersville, Pemiscot County, Missouri. Burial on 10 Nov 1923 in Little Prarie Cemetery, Pemiscot County, Missouri.
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