Amos Gorrell Purchased Land in Cooper Co, Missouri, 1869

Last week, I wrote about Amos Gorrell, Jr. being enumerated on the 1870 agricultural and population schedules. See this post here.

The ag schedule indicated he had 25 acres of land. The population schedule did not indicate that he owned real estate. The conclusion from that would be he was renting the land he was living on.

However, I have found a land transaction where he purchased about 24 acres of land from James & Virginia Staples in Cooper County, Missouri on 6 Aug 1869 and it was witnessed by W. L. Scott, the Justice of the Peace.[1]

This piece of land was located at the Southwest fractional quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 2, in Township 48, Range 19.

I wanted to know where this was and used Randy Majors website where I could map the section, township, and range, and it would appear on a Google map.[2]

From RandyMajors.com

Because he purchased only a fractional quarter of a quarter, or less than 40 acres, I don't know exactly where in the red box was his 24 acres. However, I can see he was close to the Blackwater River.

Here is the satellite image of the same location.

So now, I wonder why he didn’t list the value of the property in the 1870 population schedule.

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[1] Cooper County, Missouri, Deeds, bk 2, p 473-74, James & Virginia Staples to Amos Gorrell.

[2] “Section Township Range on Google Maps,” digital image, randymajors.org (https://www.randymajors.com/p/township-range-on-google-maps.html : accessed 4 Oct 2019), Section 2, Township 48N, Range 19W in Cooper Co, Missouri.

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