Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.020
Current with changes from the 2023 Legislative Session
When several lineal descendants, all of equal degree of consanguinity to the intestate, or his father, mother, brothers and sisters, or his grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles and aunts, or any ancestor living and their children, come into partition, they shall take per capita, that is, by persons; where a part of them are dead, and part living, and the issue of those dead have a right to partition, such issue shall take per stirpes; that is, the share of the deceased parent.
§ 474.020, RSMo
RSMo 1939 § 310, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 237