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Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA



 


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Sedalia, Missouri is a city located about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Missouri River in Pettis County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 21,387. As the county seat of Pettis County, it is the principal city of the Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Pettis County. Sedalia is also the location of the Missouri State Fair and the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. U.S. Routes 50 and 65 intersect in the city.

History:

Indigenous peoples lived along the Missouri River and its tributaries for thousands of years before European contact. Historians believe the entire area around Sedalia was long occupied by the Osage (among historical American Indian tribes). When the land was first settled by European Americans, bands of Shawnee, who had migrated from east of the Mississippi River, lived in the vicinity of Sedalia.

The area that became the European-American city of Sedalia was founded by General George Rappeen Smith (1804–1879), who also founded nearby Smithton, Missouri. He filed plans for the official record on November 30, 1857, and gave the area the name Sedville. The original plat included the land from today's Missouri Pacific Railroad south to Third Street. In addition, the version filed jointly by General Smith and David W. Bouldin on October 16, 1860, displayed the city extending from Clay Street to the north and to Smith Street (today's Third Street) in the south, and from Missouri Street in the west to Washington Street in the east. Smith and Bouldin anticipated that the city would grow to the north; however, it grew in a southern direction.

During the American Civil War, the U.S. Army had an installation in the area, adding to its boomtown atmosphere of accelerated development as merchants and traders attracted to the military business came to the area. In the post-Civil War period, two railroads were constructed connecting it to other locations, and Sedalia grew at a rapid pace, with a rough energy of its travelers and cowboys. From 1866 to 1874, it was a railhead terminus for cattle drives, and stockyards occupied a large area. At the same time, the town established schools (racially segregated for white and black children), churches, and other civic amenities.

In the late 19th century, Sedalia was well known as a center of vice, especially prostitution, which accompanied its large floating class of railroad workers and commercial travelers. In 1877 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called Sedalia the "Sodom and Gomorrah of the nineteenth century." Middle-class businessmen made money off illegal prostitution as building owners and lessees; others did business with people in the industry, who banked, used lawyers, etc., in town. Reluctant to raise taxes, residents allowed money to run the city. Services were provided from the fines charged to prostitutes.

In the 1870s brothels were distributed throughout the city, but in the 1890s, they became more concentrated above businesses on West Main Street, as the middle class tried to isolate less desirable elements in town. These establishments also employed musicians, particularly piano players, contributing to a thriving musical culture. It fostered the development of many artists, including the renowned ragtime composer Scott Joplin.

While the city attracted many commercial travelers and railroad workers, its population of married couples and families also grew. By 1900 its population of more than 15,000 made it the fifth-largest city in the state. The entrepreneurial middle class created more formal separations between its residential areas and those of working class whites and African Americans.

During World War II, the military built Sedalia Glider Base in Johnson County to the west. After the war, this facility was transferred to the Strategic Air Command. It was converted to a bomber base, the Whiteman Air Force Base, named after a man from Sedalia who had been killed in the 1941 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. After a massive construction program, the base became the center of 150 ICBM silos and administrative offices. These were decommissioned in the 1990s.

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Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Butterwick, Clifford Wayne  16 Mrz 1931Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191036
2 Dick, Albert T.  28 Dez 1906Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165816
3 Dick, Betty Jo  10 Mrz 1933Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I166012
4 Dick, Dorothy Marie  19 Mai 1933Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165996
5 Dick, Genevieve May  13 Mai 1931Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165988
6 Gamber, Alvin W. Sr.  20 Sep 1906Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191027
7 Gamber, Beverly Jean  26 Sep 1939Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191044
8 Hurt, Virginia Ruth  1 Okt 1912Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191028
9 Jones, Verla Helen  29 Jun 1908Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I166011
10 Peek, Eva Pearl  2 Apr 1907Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I219598

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Bidwell, Adaline M.  29 Sep 1972Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191026
2 Butterwick, Clifford Wayne  7 Okt 2015Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191036
3 Dick, Albert T.  15 Sep 1992Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165816
4 Dick, Betty Jo  12 Mrz 2012Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I166012
5 Dick, Dorothy Marie  31 Okt 2015Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165996
6 Dick, Genevieve May  17 Sep 2010Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165988
7 Dick, Henry J.  6 Feb 1941Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165814
8 Gamber, Charles A.  18 Jun 1972Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191020
9 Hurt, Virginia Ruth  31 Aug 1974Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I191028
10 Jones, Verla Helen  18 Okt 2003Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I166011
11 Knipp, Georg I.  9 Jun 1908Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165732
12 Knipp, Henry J.  13 Dez 1949Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165771
13 Knipp, Mary Teresa  16 Jan 1935Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165813
14 Knipp, Rosa G.  1 Sep 1964Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165828
15 Maurer, Anna Christina  20 Sep 1905Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165733
16 Trautman, Norman Henry  10 Jun 2014Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I129150
17 Whiteman, Katherine Milan  20 Mrz 1963Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA I165987

Eheschließung

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   Familie    Eheschließung    Familien-Kennung 
1 Dick / Cole  18 Feb 1935Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA F54897
2 Dick / Jones  12 Mai 1930Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA F54898
3 Withers / Dick  3 Jul 1954Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA F54889