County Farm Cemetery
AKA Shady Lawn Cemetery
Rochester Township, Section 18 West
Andrew County, Missouri
Directions: From Savannah US Business 71 east on SR E 3.5 miles to State Route D, south on State Route D 1 mile to where County Road 337 joins State Route D. Cemetery is on east side of road.
Notes: Also known as Shady Lawn Cemetery. The County Farm and Infirmary housed “paupers” and mentally impaired people of all ages, as well as the elderly. There are reportedly many burials there without tombstones. The 1914 building is currently part of Shady Lawn Nursing Home. There was only one existing stone in 2005-6.
Credits: These pictures were taken by Betty Halvorsen, 2005. (C)THE Transcriptions (Taylor, Halvorsen, Eshelman).
* Indicates African-Americans
+ Indicates obituary available
| Name | Inscription | Photograph(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Views of Shady Lawn and County Farm Cemetery | 11 13 15 18 19 | |
| Weigel, Ruth | Mother Ruth Weigel 1898-1955 |
01 |
Also reportedly buried here, but no tombstones found in 2005:
| Arthur, Samuel Auld, John Bailey, Elijah Banister, Luther Banister, Samuel Black, Edd Bowlin, Amanda Bradford, Lyman T. Bradshaw, Elliston Burtnett, Thomas Cline, Charles Collins, Winchester "Doe, John" died 1928 (African-American) "Doe, John" died 1951 Ellis, M. B. Fox, Sadie Bell Fuller, Cyrus E. Garrett, Robert Wesley Glick, Christ Hall, Lafayette+ Haris, Theodore Hattsworth, William Henry Henson, Riley Hess, Eliza Hess, infant d. 1890 Hess, Mary Rebecca (a.k.a. Mary Counce) Hixon, Ellen Hixon, India Anna Huber, John Imes, William Inhealder, John Robert Ketring, David King, John Lewis |
Mason, James Mathews, William McCallon, Benjamin F. McGue, Charles Miller, Henry Miller, Simon Mixell, James Moore, Robert Moran, Joseph C. Mylotty, Jerome Newman, Madison Noble, C. G. Palmer, James Pyburn, William Riley Reed, William Roberts, Mrs. (died 1914) Schofield, Edward Schwarz/Swartz, Gottfried Shaffer, John Shelton, Thomas Simerly, Franklin Sloop, Daniel Smith, John S. Smith, Mattie Copper Stockwell, Harrison Tailor, Richard Taylor, Joseph N. Thurnstine, Elizabeth VanAlburn, Xavier Waymer, James Weiland, Simon M. Wheeler, Elisha Huston Wilson, Thomas (African-American) Woodruff, Sarah J. |
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