In our last episode, we left Canada Ownbey (1811-1894) just moving into pre-Adair County from Macon County in 1838. He claimed a wide expanse of land which at that time was about 2 ½ miles south of what would be the center of Kirksville. However, in 1838, Kirksville did not exist.
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While the Old West wasn’t as wild as Hollywood would have us believe, the frontier really was full of crazy characters. They just didn’t have their own