Clay County farmer. Letters to North Carolina family members about Missouri life, customs, politics, religious and social events. This is a compilation of transcribed documents relating to the Gash family of Clay Co. Missouri from 1832 to 1846. The papers include correspondence between descendants, legal documents, correspondence from Clay Co., Missouri to Buncombe Co., North Carolina (1832 - 1846), misc. correspondence, census records (North Carolina), notes of pioneer life (1912), and cemetery record. Typescript prepared by Helen Smither for the Daughters of the American Revolution, Kansas City Chapter, 1978.
