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Time Marches on in Thornfield, Missouri

Shirley Carter Piland
Posted 7/5/24

The men who came to western Ozark County following the exodus of the Indians from the area were different from the earlier white trappers and adventurers. They were family men with wives and children. They came to stay, to build homes and schools and churches. Most of them came directly from Kentucky or Tennessee, bringing their “squirrel shooting, ridge running” culture with them, which they indelibly stamped upon the new region.

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