The name of the town is Latin for "Vale of the Cross," a reference to a valley in the area where three streams converge to form a shape similar to an archbishop's cross.
There was scattered settlement in the region in the 1840s when an Episcopal missionary, WilliamWestSkiles, came to the area.
Skiles also founded the first monastic order within the Episcopal Church in the United States.
William A. was born in 1826 and died in 1870, at age 44.
William Samp was the son of GUSTAV SAMP of Garnsee, West Prussia and LUISE BAARS of Dambeck, Germany.
William Alfred DANIEL was born on 23 Jul 1811 in VA., died on 23 Aug 1893 in Harrison County, MO., at age 82, and was buried in Daniel Cemetery, Harrison Co., MO.
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