Villages of Crawford County, Missouri - VILANDER Vilander is gone and its site is difficult to find. The Vilander post office was established in 1885 and located in the residence of Calvin Vilander Lynch, who was a Union veteran, having enlisted in 1864 in Company K, 63rd Missouri Infantry. He was married to Eliza Harrison, and when the post office was established she requested that the post office be called Vilander for her husband's second name. The post office operated at Vilander for several years and Eliza T. Lynch served until it closed. Mrs. Lynch lived to be eighty-two years old and was buried in the old Harrison Cemetery. In old historic Harrison Cemetery are found the graves of fifty of more Harrisons and their relatives. Among these graves are to be found that of William Harrison, the first settler and the builder of the first blast furnace. Benjamin Harrison the second representative of Crawford County, John Harrison who built the first gristmill in the county; James Harrison who in 1818 was the first person buried in the Harrison Cemetery; and Katherine Harrison buried about 1970 was the last interment. The cemetery now contains five generations of the Harrisons. Many others are buried there including other Harrisons Attorney Ashley Harrison, Roy Harrison, Batteal Harrison, Hugh Frazier Harrison, and S. D. Anthony the namesake of Anthonies Mill. Here rest the pioneers, some sleeping there for one hundred and fifty years but, "They rest from their labors and their works follow them." ------ CRAWFORD COUNTY AND CUBA MISSOURI James Ira Breuer, 1972 p. 109-110 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe L. Miller ====================================================================