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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Nachname, Taufnamen | Geburt | Personen-Kennung | ||
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1 | Gamber, Alvin W. Sr. | 20 Sep 1906 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191027 |
2 | Dick, Albert T. | 28 Dez 1906 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165816 |
3 | Peek, Eva Pearl | 2 Apr 1907 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I219598 |
4 | Jones, Verla Helen | 29 Jun 1908 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I166011 |
5 | Hurt, Virginia Ruth | 1 Okt 1912 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191028 |
6 | Butterwick, Clifford Wayne | 16 Mrz 1931 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191036 |
7 | Dick, Genevieve May | 13 Mai 1931 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165988 |
8 | Dick, Betty Jo | 10 Mrz 1933 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I166012 |
9 | Dick, Dorothy Marie | 19 Mai 1933 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165996 |
10 | Gamber, Beverly Jean | 26 Sep 1939 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191044 |
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Nachname, Taufnamen | Tod | Personen-Kennung | ||
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1 | Maurer, Anna Christina | 20 Sep 1905 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165733 |
2 | Knipp, Georg I. | 9 Jun 1908 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165732 |
3 | Knipp, Mary Teresa | 16 Jan 1935 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165813 |
4 | Dick, Henry J. | 6 Feb 1941 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165814 |
5 | Knipp, Henry J. | 13 Dez 1949 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165771 |
6 | Whiteman, Katherine Milan | 20 Mrz 1963 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165987 |
7 | Knipp, Rosa G. | 1 Sep 1964 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165828 |
8 | Gamber, Charles A. | 18 Jun 1972 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191020 |
9 | Bidwell, Adaline M. | 29 Sep 1972 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191026 |
10 | Hurt, Virginia Ruth | 31 Aug 1974 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191028 |
11 | Dick, Albert T. | 15 Sep 1992 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165816 |
12 | Jones, Verla Helen | 18 Okt 2003 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I166011 |
13 | Dick, Genevieve May | 17 Sep 2010 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165988 |
14 | Dick, Betty Jo | 12 Mrz 2012 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I166012 |
15 | Trautman, Norman Henry | 10 Jun 2014 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I129150 |
16 | Butterwick, Clifford Wayne | 7 Okt 2015 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I191036 |
17 | Dick, Dorothy Marie | 31 Okt 2015 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | I165996 |
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Familie | Eheschließung | Familien-Kennung | ||
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1 | Dick / Jones | 12 Mai 1930 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | F54898 |
2 | Dick / Cole | 18 Feb 1935 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | F54897 |
3 | Withers / Dick | 3 Jul 1954 | Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA | F54889 |