General Research Sources

• Deem’s History of Butler County by David Bruce Deem
• Early History of Butler County, George R. Loughead
• Daily American Republic , June 28, 1979
• Butler County Missouri, Vol. 2 , Butler County Genealogical Society
• City of Fisk, Mo.
• Neelyville History by Earl Greeson, 1988
• Robert Manns, Butler County historian
• The Rev. Jim Schremp, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
• Bess Harwell Tidd, Arlington, Texas
• General Butler State Resort Park, Carrollton, Ky.
• United States Post Office, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
• Picture of Gen. W. O. Butler, courtesy of Butler County Historical Society
• Map by Lee Reed