Kepner Cemetery, Bogard Township, Henry County, Missouri
aka: McCoy Cemetery

Location: T43, R28, S29 - 1495 NW 800 Rd
Landowner: Lee Kepner
Indexed by: LeVaude Markle, 1976; also Margaret Kerns, date unknown 
Earliest Known Burial: 1859
Latest Known Burial: 1959
Directions: One and one half miles northwest of Urich on Hwy 7. West (left) on NW 
800, cemetery is on the first hill north (right) of the road between Hwy 7 and NW 
800.
History: Tradition says that the first burials were the bodies of slave children 
owned by the McCoy family who were burned to death in a cabin fire. There is 
also said to be a mass grave here containing the bodies of Civil War soldiers and 
local men who were killed when they attempted to bury them. All were buried by 
the women of the community during the night.
Condition: Unkept and very brushy.
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BALLARD, John - b: Nov 10 1807 - d: Sep 18 1879

BEACH, Angeline DePEW - b: abt 1854 Indiana - d: Jul 23 1875 - dau of Hezekiah & Margaret Elizabeth ESSIG DEPEW - 21Y 1M 8D

BEACH, Martial C. - d: Aug 12 1875 - 1M

BEACH, Potter E. - d: Mar 6 1875 - 20Y 8M 14D

BERRY, Nancy A. - b: Aug 1 1860 - d: Jan 7 1883

BRADLEY, Dick - b: Mar 16 1879 - d: Aug 9 1879

BROWN, James H. - b: Feb 25 1803 - d: Jan 19 1859

BUTCHER, Infant - b: May 17 1895 - d: Jun 2 1895

CORWINE, Alice - d: Dec 3 1882 - 15Y 6M 10D

CORWINE, Elizabeth B. THORNTON - b: May 21 1813 Mason Co, KY - d: Jun 3 1901 - m: Jan 28 1835 to Richard S. CORWINE - ch: George, Mary, Lucinda, William, Richard, Ruth, John, Amanda C., Nancy A., Infant

CORWINE, George F. - b: Mar 2 1836

CORWINE, Julia A. - b: Jan 10 1840 - d: Dec 4 1910 - *death year may be 1880

CORWINE, Richard S. - b: Feb 9 1813 Mason Co, KY - d: Oct 9 1891 - son of George & Nancy THORNTON CORWINE - m: Jan 28 1835 to Elizabeth B. THORNTON - ch: George, Mary, Lucinda, William, Richard, Ruth, John, Amanda C., Nancy A., Infant  - *death year may be 1898

CORWINE, William B. - d: Jan 2 1891

DAVIS, Carrie - d: Oct 16 1866 - 1Y 5M 27D

DePEW, Andrew - b: Apr 22 1857 MO - d: Jul 27 1882 - son of Hezekiah & Margaret DePEW

DUNAWAY, James C. Marion - d: Aug 30 1859 - son of William T. & Anna - 3Y 4M

DUNAWAY, William T. - d: Apr 16 1869 - 29Y 2M 4D

EASTER, Darthula - b: Feb 23 1857 - d: Jan 30 1873

ELLIS, Joseph - b: Oct 29 1809 - d: Apr 18 1876

GOOCH, Samuel - b: Nov 22 1866 MO - d: Nov 2 1868 - son of Charles I. Jr. & Sophia HILIGAS GOOCH - 1Y 11M 10D

GOODSON, Annabelle - b: Sep 15 1874 - d: Jul 31 1877 - *birth year may be Dec 15 1831

GOODSON, Philip - b: Nov 5 1823 - d: Oct 5 1881

GRAHAM, Dora - b: Jan 16 1886 - d: Jan 16 1917 - dau of William J. & Nancy GRAHAM - *birth year may be 1881

GRAHAM, Nancy J. - b: 1850 - d: 1910 - sp: William J. GRAHAM

GRAHAM, William J. - sp: Nancy J.

HARRIS, Amanda C. CORWINE - d: Jan 28 1881 - dau of Richard S. & Elizabeth B. THORNTON CORWINE - 31Y 2M 17D

HARRIS, J. J.

HARRIS, Mahulda WILLIAMS - b: 1819 - d: Dec 29 1868 - sp: Sheldon HARRIS - 49Y 2M 8D

HAZLEWOOD, Meredith

HISEY, Abraham - b: Jan 3 1803 - d: Jun 7 1871 - 71Y 5M 1D

HISEY, Chester L. - b: Mar 16 1880 - d: Aug 19 1892

HISEY, Lucy E. C. - d: May 2 1887 - 32Y 3M 23D

HISEY, Luster C. - b: Jun 9 1859 - d: Nov 13 1880

HOBBS, William - d: Aug 5 1873 - 1Y 9M 28D

HOLWELL, Casandre J. - d: Jun 3 1879 - sp: Patrick HOLWELL - 47Y 3M 20D

HOLWELL, James - d: Jan 22 1879 - 64Y 28D (or 54Y 22D)

HOLWELL, James A. - b: Sep 2 1858 - d: Dec 7 1873 - *or d: Dec 7 1879 - son of J. & M. E.

HOLWELL, John F. - b: Sep 23 1854 - d: Feb 2 1876 - 21Y 4M 9D

HOLWELL, Patrick - d: Apr 19 1880 - 53Y

JENKINS, Clara M. - b: Oct 30 1868 - d: Oct 5 1869 - 11M 23D

JENKINS, Emma E. - b: Feb 1 1860 - d: Jul 22 1876 - 16Y 5M 21D

JENKINS, Mahala - d: Aug 14 1876 - 15Y 6M 9D

JENKINS, Nathaniel - d: Aug 12 1893 - 68Y 10M 10D

JOHNSON, Florence - d: Aug 19 1869 - dau of A. M. & M. JOHNSON - 8Y 5M 19D

JOHNSON, W. H. - d: Oct 6 1861 - 62Y 5M 8D

KEPNER, Bertha W. - d: Sep 24 1880 - dau of S. Augustus & Elnora JENKINS KEPNER

KEPNER, Daniel Jerome - b: 1849 - d: May 6 1876 - son of P. Solomon & Sophia MARK KEPNER - sp: Cordelia Bell "Dillie" McCALMON - 26Y 5M 27D

KEPNER, Elizabeth Susan ELLER - b: Mar 15 1853 Cooper Co, MO - d: Mar 26 1936 Cass Co, MO - dau of David S. & Martha Jane OGLESBY ELLER - m: Feb 27 1878, Cooper Co, MO to Hiram Mark KEPNER

KEPNER, Hiram Mark - b: Oct 27 1838 Juniata Co, PA - d: Jun 26 1908 near Urich, Henry Co, MO - son of P. Solomon & Sophia MARK KEPNER - m: Feb 27 1878, Cooper Co, MO to Elizabeth Susan ELLER

KEPNER, Ina - d: May 2 1878 - dau of S. Augustus & Elnora JENKINS KEPNER

KEPNER, P. Solomon - b: Feb 22 1811 Juniata Co, PA - d: Jan 10 1880 Henry Co, MO - son of Benjamin Henry & Anne BOLLINGER KEPNER - m: May 19 1835 to Sophia MARK

KEPNER, S. Augustus - b: Jul 3 1847 - d: Apr 15 1883 - son of P. Solomon & Sophia MARK KEPNER - sp: Elnora JENKINS

KEPNER, Sophia MARK - b: Nov 1 1810 Chambersburg, PA - d: May 2 1904 Henry Co, MO - m: May 19 1835 to P. Solomon KEPNER

KNIPE, Nancy M. MILLNER - b: IN - d: Dec 12 1873 - m: Nov 18 1852 to J. B. KNIPE - ch: Marshall E., Alsa F., Lina M. - 47Y 3M 19D

LUSBY, William A. - d: May 11 1866 - 69Y 9M 20D

MAUPIN, Anderson - b: Sep 29 1842 - d: Apr 10 1887

MAUPIN, J. A. - b: Jun 9 - d: Jul

MAUPIN, Loretia B. - d: Aug 28 1881 - 5Y 3M 12D

McCLUNG, Elizabeth R. - b: Apr 18 1831 - d: Apr 9 1888 - sp: William McCLUNG

McCLUNG, Maggie - d: Oct 27 1876 - 11Y 9M 27D

McCOY, Infant

McCOY, John - d: May 28 1869 - sp: Letitia W. - 65Y

McCOY, Letitia W. - b: Jan 8 1806 - d: Jun 6 1862 - sp: John McCOY

McFARLAND, Martha E. - b: Sep 2 1838 - d: Mar 8 1887

MILLER, Edna Pearl - b: Feb 16 1883 - d: Sep 22 1885

MIX, Emline - b: Oct 12 1819 - d: Dec 5 1870

MIX, Frank A. - b: Apr 6 1875 - d: Aug 27 1885

MIX, J. W. Sr. - b: Oct 2 1812 - d: Nov 6 1877

MIX, Julia A. - b: Oct 22 1851 - d: Jun 3 1886 - sp: J. W. MIX

MIX, Lina - b: Oct 25 1871 - d: Dec 3 1873

MORROW, Maggie E. - b: Oct 29 1868 - d: Nov 11 1873

PHIPPS, John E. - b: Feb 4 1882 - d: Aug 4 1883

RADER, Gideon - b: Dec 17 1817 - d: Nov 2 1876 - m: Nov 28 1848, Lafayette Co, MO to Mary Jane McCOY

RAY, Viola - d: Feb 12 1872 - sp: Woodford RAY - *death year may be 1873

ROBISON, Linnie M. - d: Aug 16 1875 - 1Y 4M 6D

SMITH, Jane H. - b: Feb 23 1820 - d: Jun 5 1887

SMITH, John B. - d: Apr 15 1876 - 56Y 7M 24D

TEDDER, John G. - b: Feb 24 1824 - d: Nov 10 1905

TEDDER, Sarah A. - d: Apr 28 1872 - sp: John G. TEDDER - 45Y

TEDDER, Unknown - d: May 14 1871 - 17Y 9M 13D

THORNTON, Mary Z. - b: Sep 8 1837 - d: Nov 13 1903

TISDALE, D. C. - b: Mar 18 1829 - d: Oct 3 1882

TOMPKINS, Charlotte - b: Mar 29 1865 - d: Oct 11 1877

TOMPKINS, Obadiah Rev. - b: Jan 22 1823 - d: Dec 31 1878 - sp: Ruth - Baptist Minister - "He died at his post"

TOMPKINS, Ruth - b: Nov 6 1823 - d: Mar 3 1882 - sp: Rev. Obadiah TOMPKINS

TOMPKINS, William J. Worth - b: Sep 1 1874 - d: Dec 9 1877

TOWNSEND, Emma - b: Oct 24 1877 - d: Oct 24 1877

TOWNSEND, Floyd - b: May 31 1875 - d: Aug 25 1876

WELLS, Lucieta - d: Apr 3 1942 - funeral home marker - 75Y 6M 12D

WELLS, Randolph - d: May 14 1941 - 89Y 3M 12D

WELLS, Sarah E. - d: Nov 20 1872 - 57Y

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