What's New - What's Hot 
31 Mar 2009
I cleaned out all the garbage comments left by the "spammers" in the Photo Gallery and the Guestbook. There should be a law so that we could put those creeps in jail!
29 Mar 2009
Hey - I'm back! I had lost my hard drive and had a change of jobs that took me away from maintaining my site and doing more research for awhile but I'm finally back at it again. My apologies to those who may have tried to write me at the email address shown. If you want to contact me, please email me at wnapierc@wnapier.com. I have corrected my contact information. I hope to have some site updates soon. Stay tuned.
26 Jan 2007
Added pictures of Gaulding Cemetery in Bennett's Bayou in Ozark County Missouri to the Photo Gallery. This is the burial place of Nancy K Bennett's parents Richard Bennett and Mary Russell-Bennett. Also created an album for each cemetery and put all the photos in the appropiate album.
7 Jan 2007 (Corrected)
Added two pictures to the Photo Gallery. A picture of William T Sutherlin, Martha Garrison-Sutherlin, Mary Suthelrin, & Martha Sutherlin-Napier. The Second picture is of Roseanna Jessee Cobb-Garrison and the same two girls - her granddaughters. Both are in the 1800s album. Thanks Shirley for the pictures!
28 Nov 2006
Updated Family Tree information.
6 Nov 2006
Removed ads from site.
5 Oct 2006
Added several more sections to
"A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas" .
2 Oct 2006
Added 4 more pages to
"A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas" . Particularly intesting is a section entitled "A Big Confederate Meeting at West Plains"
1 Oct 2006
"A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas" by Col. William Monks of West Plains, Missouri written in 1907 is being added. It begins with early history of the area and then most of it recounts events in the Civil War. Excellent reading! I have put in the first 3 sections - stay tuned for the rest of the book!
26 Sep 2006
Added picture of Columbus Napier as a teenager to the Photo Gallery page 4 of 1800's Album .
22 Sep 2006
Added pictures to the Photo Gallery. Added pictures of Ollie Ethyl Shelton (1899), daughter of Jincie Napier-Shelton, to 1900-1920 Album. Also added a new album for early pictures of Marshfield / Webster County Missouri.
19 Sep 2006
Implemented template to be used for most pages. This provides the same "look and feel" among pages and implements web site analysis code. Added a line of selections at the top of pages to allow the users to go to different sections directly from a sub page. Updated the family tree with same "look and feel". Now contains 1460 individuals.
18 Sep 2006
Added several new pictures including documents (marriage certificates, death certificates, railroad pension cards, etc). See Photo Gallery.
16 Sep 2006
Added copies of Civil War service cards for Quincy M Bennett (pvt), Nathan Bennett (cpl), and William Lord (sgt).
Added pictures of Cyrus, Nancy, and Ashford's tombstones.
15 Sep 2006
Added transcription of deed for farm purchased in Webster Co., Missouri by Cyrus Napier on 13 Oct 1863. Updated/corrected Cyrus' dates of Civil War service and added Cyrus' regimental histories.
14 Sep 2006
Put in an expanded list of resources and included the other genealogy home pages in this file as well. General update and clean up - includes 1,461 individuals.
13 Sep 2006
Changed the photo section again. Looks like this is the way I want to do it so it shouldn't change for awhile. Most pictures are there but still have a lot of "tweaking" to do.
11 Sep 2006
General update of Family Tree. Now have 1,445 individuals listed - however most updates are to improve accuracy..
10 Sep 2006
Added 11 more episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly for a total of 21.
09 Sep 2006
Added a History of West Plains, Missouri and The Marshfield Cyclone of April 18, 1880. Changed the links to point to a history page where various selections can be made from there.
06 Sep 2006
Added a Civil War diary by Rachel Young Anderson of Greene County.
Converted Dragnet to new format - put in 5 shows.
05 Sep 2006
If you want to hear specific Old-Time Radio series or certain shows, please Email Me with your request. If I can, I will put it on the site. Increased the number of Fibber McGee and Molly shows to 10. Began a new Old-Time Radio pages format with one series per page which gives some room to provide some information about the series and list as many shows as desired. Will be converting the other series to this format and adding new ones.
03 Sep 2006
Began implementation of my own Picture Gallery instead of using Snapfish (another web site) to hold my pictures. So far have implemented only the pictures from the 1800's - will soon put in the other pictures. An advantage is you can now download FULL SIZE PICTURES. Before, you would get only the thumbnail size pictures.
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Background
My first Napier ancestor in this country immigrated from Scotland ca 1655. Dr. Patrick Napier, a physician, came to Virginia where he practiced his trade. His gg grandson, Ashford Napier Jr., moved west from Virginia living in various places on the way. In 1829 he was living in Gallatin County, Illinois (extreme southern Illinois) where his son, Cyrus Napier, was born. He may have lived in Ozark County Missouri for a short time but by 1840 he was living in Izard County, Arkansas, in the Mountain Home area.
Cyrus married Nancy K Bennett in 1857. Early in the Civil War, Cyrus volunteered for the state militia in Taney County, Missouri. While stationed at or near Springfield, Missouri, he purchased a farm in Webster County, just east of Springfield. He raised his family in Webster County and that is where he lived the remainder of his days.
I am also researching my mother's side of the family, but so far, it has been more difficult to uncover. Less work been done by others and less information is readily available.
An area of particular interest is to find out and document what it was like to live in these times.
All branches of my ancestry are targets for study. So far I've found I'm descended from immigrants from Scotland, England, France, and Germany as well as from several Indians (American Natives).
