Florence, Morgan county, Missouri
The city of Florence was founded in 1832, but was called Williamsville
until about 1839. The June 1860 census lists 50 persons in 14 households.
The heds of households were:
Joseph Clark, physician
Chales Steinbach, merchant
John Hummel, potter
Born, Englebert, pottery laborer
Reed, James R., pottery laborer
Fisher, Charles H., blacksmith
Hook, James, merchant
Bremer, Louis, blacksmith
Hook, Thomas, merchatn
Anthony, Joseph, druggist
Much of my information was taken from the Florence
History Book 1832-1992. Copies of this book may be available from Jamet
Franklin at deljan@murlin.com
. Thanks to Janet Franklin for permission to use information
from this book for this page.
Family Histories in the book include the following surnames:
BASS, BAUGHMAN, BOATCHER, BREMER, BRETALL,
BRODERSEN, CARR, CARVER,
CHILES, COOK, CRAMER, DOHRMAN, ELDENBURG, FETHKE,
FULLENKAMP, GRIFFING,
HAMPY, HATFIELD, HOINS/HOENS, HOUCHEN, HUDSON,
JONES, KANENBLEY,
KLEIN, KNERIM, KURTZ, LEWIS, MAHNKEN,
MARQUESS, MARTENSEN, MERK,
MERTGEN, MILLER, MITCHELL, LINNEY, OEHRKE,
ORHRKE & DITZFIELD, SANDERS
& BRUNKHORST, SCHRODER, SLUDER, RASA, SIEGEL,
SCHLICTIG, RAGES, RATJE,
RICHARDSON, WEAR, WEICKEN, WILLIAMS, WITZKE-WORTHLEY, WOOLERY,
WORTHLEY,
List of people buried in cemeteries in the Florence community
