Notes: This is a large cemetery with only a small bit of it photographed. We need a volunteer to finish it.
Credits: Kelly submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
Kelly took the photos of this cemetery.
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From Union Star, east on Hwy 169 to State Hwy F. South on State Hwy F about two miles to NW Gospel Road. East on NW Gospel Road about 0.2 miles. Church and cemetery are on the north side of the road.
Book O p. 186, 31 October 1870 — From J. R. Lindley and wife, Elizabeth to James Redding, James H. Johnson, J. R. Lindley, Bluford Trotter, James Allen, W. H. Spangler, John Williams and J. J. Williams. A warranty deed with a consideration of $25.00 [worth about $460 in 2018] released for use as a place of worship. All of the above people were charter members of the Oak Grove Church and all but J. J. Williams and James H. Johnson are buried in this cemetery.
Photos are numbered in order of date/time taken, when possible. Kelly and Kris took the pictures for this cemetery.
Directions: From Maysville, head out of town on State Route 6, going west approximately 9 miles. The cemetery will be on the left, or south, side of the road. It is at the top of a hill and hard to see until you are right upon it. Oak Baptist Church is right across the street. From Clarksdale, take State Route 6 north and at approximately 5 miles the road will make a 90 degree bend — after that bend it is about one more mile. The cemetery will be on the right side, at top of hill.
Credits: Kelly Alvarado photographed this cemetery.
On 29 September 1883, Pauline Warner deeded two acres for this cemetery to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church for $100. The church was active until about 1921, and the building was torn down in 1952. Cemetery Association members in 1954 were Louis Goodwin, Harold B. Owen, George C. Warner and Edward Owen.
Dawn photographed this cemetery.
North of Cameron on 69 Highway, north on EE Highway, east on SE Grindstone. Located at the NW corner where SE Grindstone and SE Heimbaugh intersect. (Kelly was not able to find this cemetery from these directions.)
On 27 August 1874, the land was deeded from James M. Hunt and his wife, Lena, to David Smith, David Heimbaugh and T. B. France, Trustees.
Information about the burials in this cemetery from “DeKalb Co. Cemetery Census 1845-1971.” As of November 2010, we haven’t been able to locate this cemetery. If anyone can provide further information, it would be much appreciated.
From the “Dekalb Co. Cemetery Census 1845-1971”: Only two stones found at this neglected site of the old church, Mt. Carmel. About 1940, a man from King City came to the Blackburn home with a small casket and Helen Blackburn’s father helped him to dig up the body of his small son. She did not know the name of the gentleman, nor where the body was reburied. Agnes Bender wrote there was an epidemic of scarlet fever and three young women were buried in the same grave. Her grandfather, Oliver Lewis, was buried in this cemetery for 19 years. After the grandmother saw that the cemetery was neglected, she had the body removed to the Packard Cemetery in Cameron. Today, the readable stones, along with several crumbled stones are in a tangled mass of weeds, brush, and grass. It is not fenced and cattle are free to roam among the stones.
Located in the NW 1/4 of Section 12, King Lake area.
We were unable to locate this cemetery. The burials listed are from the DeKalb County Cemetery Census by the DeKalb County Historical Society.
Kelly submitted the photos of this cemetery.
N Highway north of 36 Highway at Stewartsville. Located at the NE corner of intersection of State Hwy N and SW Gridley Road.
Kelly submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
One mile north of Bethel Church on D Highway, then west on gravel road about one mile.
Kris took the photographs of this cemetery.
Steve Jones, Kelly and Kris took the photos of this cemetery.
According to the cemetery book issued by the DeKalb County Historical Society (1971), this cemetery was fenced and well-maintained. However, in October of 2011, it was very overgrown and not maintained, so much of it was inaccessible.
Kelly and Kris took the photos of this cemetery.
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Kelly and her friends took the photographs of this cemetery.
West of Weatherby on 6 Highway, north on D Highway, east on NE King Road. Located on a farm 1 mile NE of Round Top School.
We were unable to locate this cemetery in 2011. The burials recorded are from the DeKalb County Cemetery Census from the DeKalb County Historical Society.
Kelly submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
This is a very large cemetery and we need volunteers to photograph it for us. If you are interested in helping, please coordinate with Kelly Alvarado of the NWMGS. It would be greatly appreciated.
North of Stewartsville on N Highway at Alva Gilbert Farm. The graves are located in a pasture 1/2 mile west of N Highway. There were originally four graves in the Ellis Cemetery, two infants and two adults. Only two remain: Daniel Ellis (1801-1861) and his brother, John W. Ellis (1820-1854).
Located on the Dallas Pickett farm about 1-1/2 miles east of Stewartsville. This cemetery has not yet been photographed.
North of Cameron on 69 Highway, north on EE Highway. Cemetery is in a fenced area on private land east of EE Highway.
This cemetery is on private property. On purchase of the place, the current owners (as of October 2011) found the tombstones stacked near the garage. With help from local residents who grew up in the area, and old photographs, they attempted to re-establish the site. It is now fenced and well maintained, though the markers may not be in the original locations.
This cemetery was founded in the 1840s and discontinued shortly after the Civil War. There are approximately twenty graves, mostly infants of related families: Dice, Ward and Stewart.
Kelly and Kris took the photos of this cemetery.
From the intersection of Hwy 36 and 69 in Cameron, Hwy 69 north for about 2.5 miles (passing the prison on the right), turn left/west on Frost Road and proceed 1/2 mile. Cemetery is on right/north side of road.
Kelly submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
In Cameron, from Walnut and Hwy 36, proceed west on Hwy 36 approximately 14 miles, turn right and head north on Sharp Road (this is a gravel road) about 1.5 miles. The cemetery will be on the left side of the road. In St. Joseph, from I-29 and Hwy 36, proceed east on Hwy 36 approximately 15 miles, turn left and head north on Sharp Road (this is a gravel road) about 1.5 miles; the cemetery will be on the left side of the road.
DeKalb Cemetery is approximately two miles north of Stewartsville, Missouri on Sharp Road. It is a small cemetery, maybe half an acre, and there is no sign. Of the death certificates found for the people interred here, the cemetery is also referred to as McKee cemetery, and Black cemetery. Many Missouri death certificates that indicate “DeKalb cemetery” as the place of interment actually refer to West Lawn cemetery, which is in the city of DeKalb and located in Buchanan County.
Kelly submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
The county “Paupers’ Home” was in operation from 1874 to 1905. Reportedly, there is one marker, “The DeKalb Co. Poor” in a poorly fenced area that we were unable to locate in 2011. To date, no record of burials has been located.
Prior to the year 1874, the poor and indigent class of DeKalb County were supported by private individuals at so much per pauper. In that year, however, a tract of land of eighty acres, three miles southeast of Maysville, in Adams Township, was purchased for a poor farm, the necessary buildings upon which were subsequently erected. The expense for maintaining paupers has never been very great, the county having been remarkably free from that unfortunate class. (History of Andrew and DeKalb Counties, Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888.)
East of Maysville about a half-mile stands a big house with many windows in it. It stands high up on the hill and can be seen from afar. About it are beauty and the grandeur of nature. About it is a big farm crowned with the farm conveniences of the times. That farm is the county poor farm. That finest of all impulses, the impulse to hold out the hand of tenderness and kindness to the afflicted of earth, found a proper lodgment here some years ago ; and while some counties permitted their helpless and their poor to suffer from a motley aggregation of bad farm conditions, to be harried by neglect and reduced by the sloth of their keepers, DeKalb County bade farewell to the rude methods of coarser days, moved out into modern light, and fitted up a farm and built a home for the poor, exhibiting all the physical elements of a real home. And the county farm stands out today as one of the institutional things of which the people are justly proud. (A History of Northwest Missouri, Walter Williams, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.)
Clarksdale Cemetery is located approximately one mile northwest of the town of Clarksdale. From Clarksdale, from Hwy 6/31, go west on State Route P 3/4 mile to Bray Road, a gravel road on the north, or right, side. This will be as you come over the top of a hill and is easy to miss. Go north on Bray Road 1/2 mile and turn right, east, onto Wamsley Road. As you come around the jog in the road the cemetery is right there on the north, or left, side of the road. It is easily visible with a dirt track that runs around the east side of the cemetery.
Credits: Kelly Alvarado submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
Christian Chapel Cemetery is approximately four miles south of Weatherby in DeKalb County, Missouri. The church itself is no longer standing, but there is a memorial stone at the site. The cemetery has a nice white vinyl fence around it, with a small driveway and parking area, and a gate on the south side.
From Cameron, at the intersection of Hwy 36 and Hwy 69, drive north on Hwy 69 about one mile (passing the state prison on the right). At the fork in the road, bear left onto County Hwy EE and follow it for approximately 5 miles. (The road, as country roads often do, will take a 90 degree turn to the east, and then 90 degree turn back to the north, go for about a mile, and then take another 90 degree turn to the east.) At that second turn to the east, you will want to go straight onto SE Willow Road, which is a gravel road. Immediately after you are on the gravel road, on the west/left side, you will see the church memorial stone, then a small copse of trees, and then the cemetery.
On 28 May 1877, the land was deeded from William West and his wife, Nancy to Jacob Taylor, William Wood, John Bradford, Trustees. The board members were Cecil Wright, Oscar Bradford, Clarence Bradford, John Drice, and the caretaker was H. O. Whitaker.
Credits: Kelly Alvarado submitted the photographs for this cemetery.
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Kris and Kelly took the photographs of this cemetery.