The Green Forest tribune., 1912-01-26
HISTORY OF
 CARROLL COUNTY
Compiled by the Goodspeed Publish ing Go. and Was First Published
 in the Year 1889.
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
 No record of township organization prior to 1870 is extant, but from a con- parison of traditional knowledge it is in ferred that the three original townships of what is now Carroll county were Carrollton, Osage and Prairie (said to have been known at che time as Ashiey), to which Long Creek was added prior to 1850. The order of subsequent for nation cannot be ascertained. The re- cords having been destroyed it became necessary to establish township bound res, which was done at an adjourned term of the county court April IS, 1870; Hon. Robert Rains, judge, and Esquires Jackson Childers and Alexander H. Me Elyea presiding. On this day the court proceeded to establish the different townships, defining their boundaries and voting places as follows, to wit
 Long Creek township to commence at the Boone county line, at the southeast corner of Section 27, in township 20 north, Range 22 west, running west to the southwest corner of Section 9, in Township 20 north, Range 23 west; thence due north to the Missouri line; thence east to the Boone county line; thence south with said line to the place of beginning; and that the voting place in said township be, and the same is hereby designated at the residence of Redden E. MattoX.
 Hickory Township line to commence above and near the Dallison farm on Dry Creek, running northward to the southwest corner of Long Creek Town ship; thence north with said township line to the Missouri line; thence with the Missouri line to a point near and east of the residence of Thomas Wise; thence southward with the range of mountains, leaving said Wise west of said line to the Pilot Knob; thence south to the Osage mountains; thence east with the aforesaid mountain to the southwest corner of the sixteenth see ton; thence east with said section line to Dry Creek, near Jeremiah Young blood s; thence down the main channel of Dry Creek to the place of beginning; and that the voting place be, and tke same is hereby designated, at the t4ol- dence of John s. Shahan.
 Kings River Township line to com mence at the northwest corner of Hick- ory Township; thence west with the Missouri line to point due north Of Boat Mountain; thence south with tie divide between Leatherwood and Kings River to the head of the Cox and Hobbs saw-nill hollow; thence down said hol- low to the Masters ford on Kings Riv CT; thence by Bradley Bunch's to the southwest corner of Hickory Township line; thence with said line north to the place of beginning; and that the voting place in said township be, and the same is hereby designated, at the frame house on the l.. D. High farm, in the Wax weed hollow.
 | Cedar Township line to commence at the northwest corner of Kings River; thence west with the Missouri line to the Benton county line; thence south with said line to the Madison county line; thence east with said line to the divide between Leatherwood and Keel's Creek; thence to the southwest corner of Kings River Township; thence with said township line to the place of begin ming; and that the voting place in said township be, and the same is hereby designated, at the residence of William Skelton, in said township.
 Prairie Township line to commence at the southeast corner of Kings River; thence west with the said boundary line of Kings River Township to the south east corner of Cedar township line; thence with the Cedar Township line to the Madison country line; thence with the Madison county line to the Rock house Creek; thence down said creek so as to include the settlements on said creek (which is to Kings River thence up Kings River to the mouth of Piney; thence east to William Barkley's on Osage; thence north by the way of Benjamin Jennings to the place of beginning; and that the voting place be, and the same is hereby designated at Berryvilie.
 Liberty Township line to commence at the southwest corner of Prairie Township; thence south with the Mad ison county line to Stephen Howard S; thence east by the way of the Widow Usrey's on Osage, to Daniel Conner's; thence north on the divide to the Hick- ory Township line near the old Rush still-house; thence with said Prairie Township line to the place of beginning; and that the voting place in said town ship be, and the same is hereby desig- mated, at the residence of Matthew Griffith.
 Osage Township line to commence at the southwest corner of Liberty Town ship, thence south with the Madison County line to the Newton County line, thence east to the Boone County line, thence with the divide between Osage and Long Creeks to the southeast corner r | IL