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| Yount Church |
We drove over to Van Buren and Big Springs and hiked on the Slough Trail. We took a picture of the Yount Baptist Church outside Van Buren. Hardy talked to a lady about the church's name and she said she thought the name came from a Yount who had worked on the church years ago. She knew Younts and Sitzes in the Marble Hill and Bessville area. We stopped at a roadside park outside Piedmont on MO34 and took a picture then went to Gad's Hill near DesArc on MO 49. This is the sight of the first train robbery by Jesse James gang on January 31, 1874. There is a large tailing pile from a mine next to the railroad and the railroad goes to Poplar Bluff.
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