Dear Robert,
This may or may not be of help to you. I was surfing the net and came across this:
http://www.hearthstonelegacy.com/new_page_7.htm
Is a commerically sold C.D. about Benton County including ColeCamp, Mo. The price is only $11.90 ($9.95 for cd plus $1.95 shipping)..
The site mentions that C.D. includes..
****1889 Goodspeed�s History of Benton County, Missouri.
[Wonder if this book is available by inter?-library loan program somewhere?]
This massive (124 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Benton County, Mo. from its earliest settlement up to 1889.
***includes exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Benton County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information.*****
and 45 page biographical section with biographies for each of the following surnames:
* Baldwin * Bockelman * Boeschen * Bohling ** BORCHERS ** Bradley * Brauer * Brill * Burnsides * Caldwell * Carlin * Chastain * Cherrington * Clark ** CORDES ** Cunningham * Davis * Eastmann * Eckhoff * Eickhoff * Eoff * Fowler * Freund * Frisch * Fristoe * Fryback * Gallaher * Gist * Goetze * Grother * Gunn * Hackler * Hart * Harvey * Heimsoth * Heyne * Hockman * Holsten * Holtzen *
Howery * Jagels * Junge * KAHL * Kieffer ** KOENKE** Kreisel * KULLMANN * Lay * McLane * McMillian * Mabry * Mahnken * Michaelis * Monsees * Moore * Muller * Nixon * Orr * Patten * Payton * Priestley * Ranken * Reed * Rolstin * Rouse * SCHROEDER * Schwettmann * Shaver * Smith * Thomas * Thompson * Thurston * TIEMEIER * TONJER * Weaver * Wenger * White * Wienberg * Wright *
In addition to those listed above, hundreds of other family surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.