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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 313 and were afterwards resold for $2.50 each, while some lots located in what is the best business part of the town could not be sold at all. Mr. Eudaly lived until his death in the neighborhood in which he settled, and was for many years postmaster, having been ap- pointed on the establishment of the office in 1872. Bollinger County Bollinger county w'as organized in March, 1851, and was formed from parts of Wayne, Cape Girardeau and Stoddard counties. The commissioners appointed to select the seat of justice decided on Marble Hill, and a county court for the county was organized in the store of John C. Whybark, March 24, 1851. The members of the court were Reuben Smith, John Stevens, Drury Massey; Oliver E. Sni- der was clerk and William C. Grimsly the sherifl:. Shortly after the organization of the county a brick court house two stories in height was erected. It was used only a very short time and was burned. Another building similar to it in size and appearance was erected in the same year, the money having been raised by private subscription in part and in part an appropriation from the county. It, too, was destroyed by fire in ilarch, 1884, though at the time it was practically abandoned, having been condemned as unsafe. For sev- eral mouths the county was without any court house building ; an effort was made to re- move the county seat from Marble Hill to the neighboring town, Lutesville. To prevent this, the citizens of Marble Hill raised a sub- scription amounting to irl,620, and the town itself contributed $1,000 for the rebuilding of the court house in that town. The propo- sition for removal was defeated and the county court appropriated $7,000 in addition to that raised, for the construction of the present building. It was erected under the supervision of J. J. Conrad. At present there are eight townships in the county, as follows : Crooked Creek, Fillmore, German, Liberty. Lorance, Union, Wayne and Whitewater. The county was named in honor of Col. Geo. Frederick Bollinger, one of the early settlers in Cape Girardeau district and a most prominent and influential citizen. The county seat, which was long called Dallas, was named Marble Hill from the belief that the hill on which the town was built was composed of marble. Pemsicot County On February 19th, 1851, the governor ap- proved an act of the legislature for the estab- lishment of Pemsicot county. It was erected from territory cut off from the south part of New Madrid county. The line between it and New Madrid county was to begin in the Mississippi river opposite IMajors mill race, then through Cushion Lake bayou to Cushion lake to the head of Portage bay and through the bay to Little river and due west to the eastern boundary of Dunklin county. A county court was organized at the house of James Eastwood, who was its presiding jus- tice, with Martin L. Stancil and John Scott as associate justices. Robert Stewart was the first sheriff and Theodore Case was the clerk of the court. When the ciuestion of the county levees came up. Judges Scott and Stancil resigned in 1855 and were succeeded by Ebenezer Oldham and Thomas Bartlett. This question of levees was agitated by the people of Pemsicot county for a good many years. A large pai't of the county was sub- ject to overflow from the Mississippi river. In fact, the name of the county is said to be