Political - Road Overseer

Political - ROAD OVERSEER business and lists.

(David Sanford Ferguson was Road Overseer in Howell Co, Mo for several years.)

Letterhead: J. M. Harris, Dealer in Drugs and Patent Medicines
Willow Springs, Missouri March 1 1888

Mr. D. S. Ferguson
Sir, I have the honor of submitting a list of hands beginning at Pine Grove School House and working West in the opening of the Willow Springs and Ava Road.

(Note: number after each name is Days Worked. I do not understand why persons with no days worked are listed, but felt list significant to establish residence in the area at the approximate time of the missing 1890 census.)

Eli Green	4	Charles Green	4	Wm Green	3
S N Benett	4	R Fitsjerald	0	C Thomas	0
W A Brachett	0	S H Davis	0	S A Golden	0
W B Sleples	0	Frank Lewis	0	Gus Lee	0
Geo Green	0	S A Hagg	0	C A Criger	2
Jas Radford	0	Thos Clanset	0	M L Tolliver	0
Wm Mogie?	0	A E Flinn	0	Wm Rankin	0
Thos Evans	0	Wm Stevenson	1	C L Pruitt	4
W L Powers	0	by Thos Stevenson		J M Harris	4
Travis Taylor	2	Thos Brackett	0	Wm Chambers	0
J A Mahaffey	0	T D West	4	John Bratt	0
J D Boles	4	by Calvin Perkins		F F Teeter	3
Wm Thrasher	1/2	Jas Green	0	C Hall	2

Signed J. M. Harris Foreman

ROAD OVERSEER'S REPORT TO COUNTY CLERK OF DELINQUENTS. (Road Law, 1883)

STATEMENT of Amount Collected and Balance due by Road Hands on account of Road Labor, by D. S. Ferguson Road Overseer of Road District No. 26 in Howell County, Mo., on the first day of October 1888 for the Taxes of said year. (The word "October" has been lined through) (Amount due $4.00 from each person listed - most collected)

Names of Persons Liable for Road Labor

Benett, S. N.
Brachett, W. A.
Brachett, Thos
Bratt, S. C.
Boles, J. D.
Bubb, J. D.
Bubb, S. A.
Benett, Joseph
Beard, Geo.
Brown, S.
Brown, E. O.

Criger, C. A.
Classet, Thos.
Chambers, Wm
Cook, Jno
Clark, T
Cochran, E. C.
Culliton, Jno.

Donahugh, ______
Ennis, J. E.

Fitsjerald, R.
Flinn, A. E.
Fuller, J. A.
Ferguson, T. J.
Fountain, J. M.
Fromble, Phillip
Green, Eli
Green, Charles
Green, Wm
Green, Geo
Green, Jas.
Golden, Jno.
Golden, S. A.
Garlett, A.

Harris, J. M.
Hagg, S. A.
Hall, C.
Harlin, Jesie
Hopper, Wm.
Heart, G. W.
Hungate, Porter
Holloman, T. M.

Kenworthy, Thos

Lewis, Frank
Lee, Guss
Lay, B. F.
Mitchell, E. E.
McLucus, Dayton
Megher, Geo.
Manning, L. S.
More, Wm
Mahaffey, Wm

Neasly, ________
Norman, W. E.
Norton, A. L.

Osburn, _______

Price, G. S.
Palmer, J. M.

Radford, Jas.
Ranken, Wm
Roush, J. A.
Reynaldo, Frank
Reese, D.
Robberts, E.
Ray, Samiel
Staples, W. R.
Stevenson, Wm
Smith, J. N.

Taylor, Travis
Thomas, C.
Tolliver, M. L.
Teeter, L. T.
Teel, Frank
Thrasher, Wm.
Timmie, W. N.

Vorner, Mat

Wymer, Geo.
Wright, A.
West, T. D.
Wisner, Gib
Whitmire, Fred

A second Road Overseer's Report is similar, but with some different names, and with the printed October "188_" not completed.

Alexander, Ira
Bratt, S. C.
Brown, W. S.
Bowles, J. A.
Bowles, J. D.
Bubb, S. A.
Brackett, T. M.
Beard, George
Benett, Joseph
Burkart, W. M.
Burkart, G. W.
Broombaugh, David
Culleton, John
Cochran, E. C.
Book, John
Baylor, J. J.
Davis, S. M.
Donahou, William
Evans, W. P.
Ennis, J. I.
Ferguson, T. J.
Ferguson, E. C.
Green, W. M.
Garlett, A. P.
Green, E. H. L.
Green, Charles
Green, George
Holloman, T. M.
Hall, J. M.
Hutsell, Henry
Hankes, Newt
Headley, J. S.
Hymer, G. W.
Hagg, S. M.
Harison, J. D.
Harris, J. M.
James, I. A.
Jaynes, W. B.
Kenedy, Pamt
Keeth, H.
Loutrell, W. A.
Lyons, D.
Norman, W. E.
Nease, W. A.
Nease, T. J.
Nease, J. D.
Mitchell, E. E.
McCullough, John
McAlester, R. R.
Meaghr, George
Moore, W. M.
Palmer, J. W.
Pruitt, C. L.
Radford, James
Reece, W. J.
Rogers, J. W.
Smith, Isaac
Sipes, A.
Staveson, Thomas
Staveson, John
Staveson, William
Smith, C. M.
Staples, W. R.
Spauldin, N.
Teeter, F. F.
Thresher, William
Tolover, M. L.
Varner, J. M.
Wisner, Gib
Webb, G. W.
West, T. D.
Wells, J. W.
Woods, N. P.

Notice from the Clerk of the County Court for Howell County,
West Plains, Mo February 13, 1894

Dear Sir,

You have been appointed Road Overseer by the County Court. Find herewith Bond you will sign and get two good solvent securities to sign with you then bring the bond and come to my office and be sworn in and receive your commisson.
Respectfully,
R. S. Hogan, Clerk

Dear Dave,

I did not have any hand in appointing you and hope you will not blame me. The Dist. has been cut down and will not require nearly so much time as you will have Twp. 27 R. 10 only.

This leaves us all well.

As ever, R. S. Hogan

(Note - David Sanford Ferguson and Robert "Rob" S. Hogan were first cousins.)

CERTIFIED COPY OF ORDER

State of Missouri)
County of Howell) August Term, 1897

In the County Court of said County, on the 3rd day of Aug 1897, the following, amoung other proceedings, were had, viz:

In the matter of the petition of P M Green & Etal for a new road it appearing to the Court that the South Mo Land Company and other unknown parties over whose land the proposed new road is to run have failed to relinquish the right of way.

It is ordered by the Court that D S Ferguson, Wm Young & David Hogan be and they are hereby appointed Commission to view the premises & assess the damages that may accrue to the above named parties, taking into consideration the benefit as well as the damage and make due report herein according to law at the next regular term of the Court.

State of Missouri)
County of Howell) Will T Smith, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a true copy of the proceedings of our said county Court, on the day and year above written, as the same appears of record in my office.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in West Plains, this, the 30 day of Aug 1897.
Will T Smith, Clerk County Court.