Editing Stoutsville, Missouri (section)

==History==
Stoutsville was [[plat]]ted in 1871 and named after the family of Robert P. Stout, the original owners of the town site.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_monroe.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070849/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_monroe.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Monroe County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= November 10, 2016}}</ref> A post office called Stoutsville has been in operation since 1872.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Monroe | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=November 10, 2016}}</ref>

For at least 25 years during its early history, Stoutsville had been a [[sundown town]], a place that forbade [[Black people]] to stay overnight.<ref name="Oklahoman">{{Cite news |date=August 9, 1907 |orig-date=First published on August 8, 1907 |title=Blacks Aroused by Curfew Law |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/900131197/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Oklahoman]] |page=9 |location=[[Monroe City, Missouri]] |quote=Seven years ago Paris, the county seat of Monroe county, drove out more than one-third of its negro population, while Stoutsville, eight miles southwest of Monroe City, has not allowed a black to remain in town after nightfall for twenty-five years. A sign prominently displayed a short distance from the railroad station reads: 'Mr. nigger, don't let the sun set on you in Stoutsville.' |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> A sign once displayed near the railroad station read, "Mr. Nigger, don't let the sun set on you in Stoutsville."<ref name="Oklahoman" />