Caples Cemetery
AKA Amazonia Cemetery or Boston Hill Cemetery
Amazonia, Lincoln Township, Section 36 South
Andrew County, Missouri
Directions: From Amazonia, east on Broadway, turn north to Main, follow Main to end of blacktop, where the road becomes County Road 370, gravel lane to left. The cemetery is on the top of a steep hill. The road around the perimeter is drivable in good weather
Credits: These pictures were taken by Joe and Keith Stanton, 2005, and Betty Halvorsen, 2006. (c)THE Transcriptions (Taylor, Halvorsen, Eshelman).
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Also reported buried here, but no tombstones found in 2005-2006:
| Unknown child 1849-1857 Allen, Herman L. Allen, Susie Bartlow, Sarah Frances (Grimes) Bartlow, Rosetta (Wilson) Boydston, Elizabeth (Broce) Caples, Charlotte (Lisle) Caples, Julia (Dick) Caples, Martha Anna (Vessar) Caples, Matilda (Tracy) Cobb, Alfred Monroe Coffelt, Judy Ann (Underwood), d. Sept. 21, 2008 Davis, Cyrus Duncan, Claudia George, Frances Lorene George, Sarah Elizabeth (Graves) Hall, infant s/o John & Minnie Hall, John C. Hall, John G. Hall, Minnie Harman, William E. Hobbs, Florence Genettie (Schumaker) Karr, Katherine (Carter) Karr, Richard Karr, Warner Kaullen, Larry Allen Kerns, Ethel C. (Crippen) Lee, Ira Richard Lee, Wiley P. Lisle, Charles H. Lisle, Jerome Valentine Lisle, Lemuel Lisle, Thomas J. Lisle, Tibetha B. Lisle, William H. McConnell, Clem Edward McConnell, John Downing McCush/MacCuish, Donald McCush/MacCuish, Duncan (Jr.) McCush/MacCuish, 2 infants named Mary |
Paxton, E. 1900-1976 Paxton, Alfred R. Paxton, Clara Belle (Weaver) Perkins, Mattie Jane Peterson, Nilson Petterson, Hannah Pierson, Joseph H. Posey, Walter Tenet Proffit, Deanna Kaye (Proctor), died Dec. 2, 2007 Reynolds, Melissa (Duke) Roat, Mary Elizabeth (Stillion) Sheridan, Phillip James Silkwood, Larry H. Smith, Enoch Smither, Enos Harned Smither, Mary Jane (Carr) Stephenson, infant of John+ Stephenson, John Wright Stephenson, Mary Emmaline (Taylor) Taylor, George+ Taylor, James Frederick Thorpe, Joel B. Trapp, Mattie A. Waud, Frances Waud, John Weeks, Ralph Franklin Welter, David A. Sr. West, William Edward Wettes, John Wolfe, Juanita Marie Wright, Anna (McCush) |
Rows
| Section 1 Furthest east section of cemetery, beginning at south end |
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| Row | Direction of Row | Photographs |
| 1 | South to north | 01B-12 |
| 2 | North to south | 13-19 |
| 3 | South to north | 20-28 33-35 |
| 4 (very irregular) | 95B, 36-63 29B-32B, 27B 67bB, 69, 88B, 90B-94B, 70B | |
| 5 | 71-84B | |
| 6 | 85aB-87 | |
| Section 2 Starts at southern edge of cemetery |
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| Row | Direction of Row | Photographs |
| 1 | South to north | 01aB-11bB 13B-19B 12B, 20B-30B |
| 2 | North to south | 31-39bB, 72aB, 72bB, 40B, 79B, 41B, 41bB, 41aB |
| 3 | South to north | 41-49bB, 69B, 70B, 71B, 50aB-51cB, 67B, 68B, 64B-66B |
| Cluster of stones | 52aB-63B | |
| Section 3 On south side of ridge which runs roughly east and west through the middle of the cemetery |
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| Row | Direction of Row | Photographs |
| Row | Direction of row | Photographs |
| 1 (starting at southeast corner) | South to north | 001B-006 |
| 2 | North to south | 007-018 |
| 3 | South to north | 019-022B |
| 4 | North to south | 023B-025 |
| 5 | South to north | 026B-038 |
| 6 | North to south | 040, 042, 041, 041B, 043-051 |
| 7 | South to north | 052-062bB |
| 8 (not straight) | North to south | 063, 067B, 064aB-074 |
| 9 | South to north | 075-080 |
| Cluster north of fenced plot | 081B-085B, 109B, 086, 087 | |
| Family plot | 088-101 | |
| Cluster south of fenced plot | 102aB-107B | |
| Section 4 Runs parallel to Section 3, on the north side of the dividing ridge, continues to near west end of cemetery |
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| Row | Direction of Row | Photographs |
| 1 | South to north | 01B-02bB |
| 2 | North to south | 03-14cB |
| 2.5 (family plot) | 15-18B | |
| 3 | North to south | 19aB-23B |
| 4 | South to north | 24-28B |
| 5 | North to south | 30-32B |
| 6 | South to north | 33-36 |
| 7 | North to south | 37, 37B, 48B, 82aB, 82bB, 38-42 |
| 8 | South to north | 43-51 |
| 8.5 | 52B | |
| 9 | South to north | 53B-62, 47B |
| 9.5 | 63 | |
| 10 | North to south | 64-67 |
| 11 | South to north | 70-72 |
| 12 | North to south | 73-77 |
| 13 | South to north | 78-80 |
| Alone, end of section | 81 | |
| Section 5 Western end of cemetery, cemetery drive is the boundary to the west and south |
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| Row | Direction of Row | Photographs |
| 1 (starting at west side) | South to north | 001B-009bB |
| 2 | North to south | 010B-014 |
| 3 | South to north | 015B, 016 |
| 4 | North to south | 017-026 |
| 5 | South to north | 027-046 |
| 6 | North to south | 047-058 |
| 7 | South to north | 059B-061, 68B, 69B, 062B-067 |
| 8 | North to south | 068, 069B, 071B, 073 |
| 9 | South to north | 074B, 077B-096 |
| 10 | North to south | 097-103 |
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