A NEW feature in our grand museum!!

Old Time Photo in the parlor at the Ray County Museum in sepia tone or color.

Dress in our authentic looking costumes of the era or wear your own and step back in the past.

Bring your family and make a memory.

Two sizes of photos are available on high quality photo stock.

Wouldn’t this be a great Christmas card or to make memories with your class reunion?

We have children’s to larger sized costumes available with accessories for a small additional charge.

Please call for your reservation.

Ray County Museum

816-776-2305

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TEA TIME!

What better way to relax and run away from all the problems and the hectic pace of your lives?
A formal parlor, your best friends, tea served with light refreshments and a tour of our grand old museum?
October and November are Special Tea in the Parlor Months.
Grandmothers, bring your granddaughters to tea and enjoy an afternoon to remember.
The atmosphere of the 1900’s parlor along with the rest of the museum, a tea party complete with playing dress up if you like plus a tour of the museum.
Complete with our 1800’s Costume room, sewing room, quilt room, Grandmother’s kitchen and more!
The water is on the fire
The china is out
We’re in our period costumes to serve you
We’re just waiting for your reservation.
A nominal fee will bring you a maximum of pleasure and memories.
Come and join us!
Contact- Karen Windsor Bush, Curator/manager/tea-mistress
816-776-2305, Wednesday through Saturday
email- raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

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THE DONNER PARTY, 1846-47

FORMER RESIDENTS OF EASTERN RAY COUNTY WERE INVOLVED IN THE RESCUE

In the spring of 1846, Thomas Rhoads, Sr., his wife, Elizabeth Forster Rhoades, thirteen of their children and 35 members of their extended family which included their daughter-in-law, Amanda Esrey and three of her brothers, left Ray County, Missouri, for California. Family tradition has it that Thomas Rhoades, Sr., was a Mormon and had been asked by Brigham Young to assess possible route the Mormons could use to travel west.

The Rhoades group split into two parties at Big Sandy River in Wyoming with one group taking the Greenwood Cutoff route to Ft. Hall and then turning onto the California Trail at Raft River. Thomas, Sr., took the rest of his family over the new Hastings Cutoff by way of Great Salt Lake and rejoined the California Trail just below Elko on the Humboldt River in Nevada. This was the same route the Donner Party traveled two weeks later. When the Rhoades family learned the Donner Party was trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, John and Daniel Rhoades and the Esrey brothers were members of the group which went back to rescue them.

Several members of the Esrey family remained on property in Ray County near Hardin and have descendants in this area. Some related families are Holsinger, Grove, Stratton and Trenchard.

If you would like to learn more about these interesting Ray County people and historic events, plan to attend the program given by Dan Esarey, currently of St. Louis, Missouri. Dan welcomes participation with the audience, questions and answers.

This program will be held at the Ray County Museum,

901 West Royle Street

Richmond, Missouri

1:00 P.M., Saturday, October 11

This program is jointly sponsored by the Ray County Genealogical Association and the Ray County Historical Society. The program is free and the public is invited.

Refreshments will be provided.

(information provided by Bernie Rhoades, great-great grandson of Thomas Rhoades,Sr.)

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