As early as 1894, Callie Taylor, daughter of a pioneer Methodist minister from Lewis County, Mo., taught educational fundamentals to the children of Ralls County, who lived nearby to Oakwood.
Living, as he did in June 1915, on the banks of the Mississippi a mile south of Hannibal, dairy farmer Evan T. Cameron, 49, was accustomed to the noises associated
Within every old building there are stories entrapped, begging for release. The laughter of children, long since gone to their graves, remains absorbed within the plastered walls.
On a clear evening in late August, 1919, a young man approached a small-framed woman as she walked through the square block dedicated since the town’s incorporation as Hannibal’s Central