{"id":1934,"date":"2024-11-30T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:47:53","slug":"clemmens-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/clemmens-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemmens Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clemmens Cemetery
Platte Township, Section 33 West
Andrew County, Missouri<\/h3>\n

Directions: Go 1.5 miles south on State Route D from State Hwy. 48. Cemetery in on private property on the west side of the road. Access by permission.<\/p>\n

Credits: These pictures were taken by Betty Halvorsen, 2006. (c)THE Transcriptions (Taylor, Halvorsen, Eshelman).<\/p>\n

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* Indicates African-Americans
+ Indicates obituary available<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Updates, corrections and additions:<\/td><\/tr>
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Name<\/th>\nInscription<\/th>\nPhotograph(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens Cemetery <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 092<\/a> 145<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atkinson, Robert <\/td>\n Robert Atkinson
Born Apr. 8, 1868
Died Mar. 2, 1869 <\/td>\n		 146<\/a> 147<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broyles, Melissa J. <\/td>\n Melissa J.
dau. of W. P. & Ruth Broyles
Died Aug. 2, 1865
Aged 1 yr. 7 ms 7 ds <\/td>\n		 113<\/a> 114<\/a> 115<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, A. C.+ <\/td>\n Rev. A. C. Clemmens
Died Oct. 18, 1881
In the 80th Year of his age
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,
From henceforth, yea, saith the spirit,
that they may rest from their labours,
and their works do follow them.
Farewell
Sacred to the memory of our Father and Mother <\/td>\n		 130<\/a> 131<\/a> 132<\/a> 133<\/a> 134<\/a> 135<\/a> 124<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, Henry <\/td>\n Henry Clemmens
Born Jan. 11, 1831
Died Jan. 9, 1854 <\/td>\n		 128<\/a> 129<\/a> 123<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, Malissa <\/td>\n Malissa Clemmens
Born May 21, 1839.
Died Feb. 26, 1858 <\/td>\n		 143<\/a> 144<\/a> 119<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, Mary E. <\/td>\n Mary E. Clemmens
Died Oct. 30, 1851
Daughter in Law of A. C. & Sarah Clemmens <\/td>\n		 139<\/a> 140<\/a> 120<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, Sarah+ <\/td>\n Sarah
wife of Rev. A. C. Clemmens
Died Oct. 16, 1881
In the 78th year of her age
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Farewell
Sacred to the memory of our Father and
Mother <\/td>\n		 130<\/a> 131<\/a> 136 137<\/a> 138<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, unknown [maybe A.] <\/td>\n Clemmens
Born Oct. 4, 1843
Died Jan. 5, 1844 <\/td>\n		 125<\/a> 126<\/a> 127<\/a> 122<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clemmens, William A. <\/td>\n William A.
son of C. M. & Mary A. Clemmens
Born Aug. 26, 1858
Died Oct. 14, 1858 <\/td>\n		 141<\/a> 142<\/a> 121<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Officer, Alexander J. <\/td>\n Alexander J. Officer,
Died July 3, 1863
Aged 40 y’s 1 mo 25 d’s
Loved in life and in death not divided. <\/td>\n		 104<\/a> 107<\/a> 110<\/a> 111<\/a> 112<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Officer, Lucinda <\/td>\n Lucinda
wife of A. J. Officer
Died Aug. 26, 1868;
Aged 44 y’s 11 m’s 18 d’s
Loved in life and in death not divided. <\/td>\n		 103<\/a> 104<\/a><\/font> 105<\/a> 106<\/a> 107<\/a> 108<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Officer, Martha A. <\/td>\n Martha A.
dau. of A. J. & L. Officer
Died Nov. 25, 1863
Aged 1 Y’r 1 Mo 27 ds <\/td>\n		 096<\/a> 097<\/a> 098<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Officer, Robert B. <\/td>\n Robert B.
son of A. J. & L. Officer
Died Nov. 21, 1856
Aged 3 y’s 4 m’s 10 d’s <\/td>\n		 099<\/a> 101<\/a> 102<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reynolds, Jane <\/td>\n Jane Reynolds
Born Apr. 16, 1833
Died July 1, 1873 <\/td>\n		 093<\/a> 094<\/a> 095<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
unknown <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 117<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Also reportedly buried here, but no tombstones found in 2006:<\/p>\n

Banister, infant d. 1886
Reynolds, Leroy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clemmens Cemetery Platte Township, Section 33 West Andrew County, Missouri Directions: Go 1.5 miles south on State Route D from State Hwy. 48. Cemetery in on private property on the west side of the road. Access by permission. Credits: These pictures were taken by Betty Halvorsen, 2006. (c)THE Transcriptions (Taylor, Halvorsen, Eshelman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-cemeteries-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}