IMPORTANT!
» It's January. The month when it is cold, a bit dreary, and hopefully snow rather than ice. Major updates coming. While the site is being updated, links on the new pages (all have the headers) will have this pale yellow background.
» All links on the ORIGINAL GRUNDY SITE" will work as they did previously. If a page has been redone, the page will display in the website's new look.
11 Jan 2026:Over 150 bad links have been corrected. The remaining are almost all from pages older than 2016, some back to 2008. These will be addressed as the pages are updated.
Next major work: Utilize server-side-includes for portions of a page (such as headers, footers, menus) that appear on almost every updated page.
9 Jan 2026: I ran a broken link checker tonight. ARGH! The result was an embarrasing number, 588. Many are on the old pages, some are links in footers which are rarely accessed. The cemetery links and (grave)stone links are almost all bad. I will be updating those first. The content IS there, just the link is incorrect. Bear with me while I find all these errors and get them corrected. Corrections will come BEFORE updating the page to the current design. This will ensure better accuracy.
Since I last updated this section, I am still Grundy County's Coordinator and now have an additional new role, Assistant State Coordinator for MOGenWeb. The Grundy site is near and dear to my heart. I grew up in this county, my father was born in this county. This website and Larry were so helpful when I started my genealogy journey in 1998. His grandpa knew my grandpa. So, please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. I am unable to do additional research on your family, but I have ancestors here and will update the site with general information I find. The first goal, still in progress, is to move current content into the new format.
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Information contained on all of the pages within the Grundy portion of the MOGenWeb may be used for personal genealogical and historical purposes.
Please be considerate of copyright information and give credit where credit is due.
Any and all donated data will remain with the County in the event of the resignation of the County Coordinator.
Grundy County, Missouri was organized January 2, 1841 from part of Livingston County. The county is named for Felix GRUNDY, U.S. Attorney General under President Van Buren. The County Seat is Trenton, Missouri, with a population of 5,584 (2021).
Before white men settled in Grundy County, it was occupied as a hunting ground by tribes of Sac, Sioux, and Pottawottomie Indians. The Iowas tribe occupied what is now Grundy, Mercer, and Harrison counties.
No obtainable record or tradition exists of a permanent settlement being made until 1833, when General W. P. THOMPSON settled near the Grand River. Among the first settlers in the vicinity of the present site of Trenton were: James R. MERRILL, Samuel BENSON, John THRAILKILL, Levi MOORE, William COCHRAN, Jewett NORRIS, John SCOTT, and Daniel DeVAUL, plus the PERRY, GRUBB, and METCALF families.
I hope you find this website helpful in your research of Grundy County roots. I am unable to do local research on the county as do not live in Missouri and do not have direct access to records.
The page was last modified on : 11 Jan 2026 8:04pm CT
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Laredo Grist Mill circa 190
Located east side of Medicine Creek
Dunlap Baptist Church
Church no longer standing
Coca-Cola Company
circa 1920s
Grand River College
1850 - 1853
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Grundy County Coordinator:
Lynda Coffman Peach
State Coordinator: Martha A C Graham
ASC: Bob Jenkins
ASC & Tech Advisor: Lynda Coffman Peach
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please do not ask for specific research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Missouri and do not have access to additional records. Members of The MOGenWeb Project team are listed to the left.
There aren't enough words to properly thank Larry Flesher who established this website. Larry has stepped down after years of service. Larry started this website in 1996. In fact, he was part of the team that envisioned what USgenWeb.org could be.