The Charles Denny store at 201 North Main Street in Butler.
Courtesy of the Eddie Herrman Archives
January 29
1841–Bates County is officially organized.
1856-Joseph Smith is the new postmaster at Pleasant Gap.
1880-Robert Leech, one of the originators of the town of Mulberry, gives 2.2 acres for expansion of the town.
1886-Charles Denny is back in the grocery business, after rebuilding his East Side location, which was destroyed by fire on November 16, 1885.
1929-Bates County sheriff A. C. Hartley thwarts a jail break when he finds two window bars sawed through.
1945-Carl J. Henry, of Butler, is named chariman of the Bates County drive for the new state constitution.
Carl J Henry in Jefferson City. Photo taken 1931.
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There’s my 3rd great grandfather, Joseph Smith, Postmaster for Pleasant Gap, 1856. Any other Joseph Smith descendants here?