Welcome to Missouri Research
Belcher and Related Surnames
The U.S. Territory of Missouri was set up in 1812, but settlement was slow even after the War of 1812. The coming of the steamboat increased traffic and trade on the Mississippi, and settlement progressed.
Settlement of Missouri itself quickened, spreading in the 1820s over the river valleys into central Missouri and by the 1830s into W Missouri.
The boundaries of the state were formed after Native Americans gave up their claim to Platte co. in 1836; this strip of land in the northwest corner of Missouri was added to the state.
Mormon immigrants came to settle Missouri in the 1830s.
German immigrants, however, were cordially received during the 1840s and 50s, settling principally in the St. Louis area.
During the Civil War most Missourians remained loyal to the federal government.
A state convention that met in Mar., 1861, voted against secession, and in 1862 the convention set up a provisional government. Guerrilla activities persisted during this period, and the lawlessness bred by civil warfare persisted in Missouri after the war in the activities of outlaws such as Jesse James.A new Missouri rose out of the warthe semi-Southern atmosphere, along with the river life and steamboating, began to decline, but the flavor of the period was preserved in the works of one of Missouri's most celebrated sons, Mark Twain . The coming of the railroads brought the eventual decay of many of Missouri's river towns and tied the state more closely to the East and North.
 Missouri Belcher Marriages
Missouri Chaney Marriages
Missouri Nutter Marriages
Missouri ODell Marriages
Missouri Ramey Marriages
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Welcome to the Missouri, May 2002, Issue of the Belcher Blues Newsletter.
Greg Belcher
Gayl Ramey Wells
Miscellaneous Missouri Information:
Edward Everett Belcher (1835-1892) moved with his parents, Joseph Belcher and Serena Coats, from Boston to Adams County, Illinois about 1839, and then to St. Louis, Missouri in 1841/1842. Edward went to the silver strike area near Virginia City, Nevada, where he met and married widow Elizabeth Jane (Perkins) Perkins in 1863. She was a Mormon; he was converted and they were married in 1875 in the Endowment House. Descendants and relatives lived in Nevada, Utah, California and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virignia, New England and elsewhere.
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