I am Nancy Virginia Hamilton Wright, and this is information collected by  others and myself about my family. There is a list of surnames for you to  read. This site is searchable, and family trees, charts and  reports can be printed from it.
 Everything written here should be accurate and true. If anything is in doubt,  I hope I have said so. I have done research in libraries,the national archives,  birth, marriage, and death indexes,correspondance with individuals, newspaper  clippings and obituaries, saved letters, recent email correspondance with people in  this country as well as in Australia, and recently on computer, have consulted the  memories of others as well as  my own. Some facts are from my own experience, and  others I learned by asking questions when I was a child, and getting answers from  such people as my grandmother Flo Cannon, my Uncle Lawrence Hamilton, my aunts Bess  and Elizabeth Hamilton, and my parents.   
 More recently help has come from my Aunts Ella Bennett and Jean Pfaff; my  double-cousin (both in the Hamilton and Cannon lines) Jerry Hamilton;Dean and Dee  Hamilton; my son-in-law's mother Adelina Silveira and her  mother, Francesca Leal,  and people I have met online who are descended from the Wood family - as are Judie  White and Don Vinyard;  Australian cousins Dave Wright,Irene Fitzgerald, Paul Mann, Belinda Dornseiff Day, and Dena McAbee and her brother Russell McAbee,  and Chanel K. Reid; Janet Goad Hill who married a McGee relative, Trisha Whitlock  whose McGee research is also on Tribalpages, Phyllis Sams who is a LaPlante,Deanna  O'Reilly who is a Spencer; Michael Miller for sharing his extensive research on Wood,  Dalton & LaPlante families in SE Missouri; R.R.Rowlett, Bob Montgomery, LaPlante descendant, Ron  Black and his aunt Charlotte 
 Robinson;Polly & Helen Maes, niece Diane Klingman & her step-dad Rich Osborn,3rd cousin Jerry  Cannon Beeler; and 
 others. I  
 can't name them all, unfortunately. And the loan of old photographs from the above as  well as my sister Pat Hardig. Modern photos are from today's young families.  In the meantime, I am working at filling in the written Sources as  opportunity arises. To do this I must recheck U.S. Census records, state  birth, marriage and death indexes, newspaper articles, family letters,books  and more.
 Since this is a Work In Progress, check back from time to time and you will  find any new information, including sources.
 My parents moved from Jasper co., Missouri in 1941, just before the start of  the Second World War, to Stockton, California. Both of my parents, Bob  Hamilton and Virginia Cannon, were born and raised in Jasper county, Missouri. Once farmers, the men in both families went to work in lead and zinc mines, my  mother's maternal grandfather, Robert Lee McGee inventing mining machinery,  including the McGee Coffee Mill.
 Because of this he became a working partner in some of the mines.  Of course, mines play out, and miners - if they haven't died of diseases or  accidents related to their work-need to look for other employment. To do this,  they often removed to other areas. 
 At the present time, I know of no relatives still living in Carterville,  although there are some in Duenweg (pronounced Dunn-uh-wegg)and Joplin. This work is meant to be, not only a record of the past, but an attempt to  help us find each other, the remains of a family that once knew of each  other's existence and whereabouts.
 Please read and enjoy.
 Any questions are welcome, and I will try to provide an answer.  All additional information, also,is welcome from any cousin, however distant.

Nancy Wright.  P.S. You can upload your photos to this site, if you want to.