CEMETERIES-Douglas Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

FROM: Margaret R. Bates <mrbates@swbell.net>
DATE: 8 Oct 2000

Douglas Cemetery
92nd Street & Charlotte
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri


This very small cemetery is a perfect example of why it's so 
important to document cemeteries. It is a vanishing cemetery. 
When I surveyed it in October 2000, there were only a few legible 
markers. Not one had escaped some sort destruction by vandals.

To reach the cemetery, turn east on 92nd Street off Holmes and 
travel about 1/8 mile. There is an opening in the brush on the 
left before the road ends and you can see the cemetery. We were 
able to drive up to the cemetery, as the ground was level and dry.

Some major plumbing work was going on in the neighborhood and there 
was lots of equipment and piping to be seen on the road. There was 
a wooden handpainted sign which announced that we had arrived 
at "Douglas Cemetery."

Although there once had been some very fine stones, only a couple 
of granite stones remained that still looked fine. Apart from the 
inscriptions below, there were a number of bases, broken stones, 
rocks which appeared to have once been markers. Also, there were 
two or three deep depressions, which suggested loved ones had been 
removed to other locations. (Perhaps the bases were left and stones 
removed for others?)

At the entrance to the cemetery, once fenced, but only pieces of 
fence remaining, was a concrete pad of about 10' x 12' which may 
have been a chapel of some sort. A sidewalk led from the cemetery 
to a large tree toward the north end of the cemetery, which may 
have once led to a church or perhaps a home.

ARN, Cornelius - 15 Aug 1841 - 21 Jul 1880
ARN Albert - d. 21 Nov 1900, 2y
UNKNOWN, Aug... d. 21 Jul 1880, 41y 11m 6d (broken stone)
DOUGLASS, Albin - 28 Dec 1841-27 Jun 1916 "Father" 
	(ss/w Amanda Douglass)
DOUGLASS, Amanda - 3 Sep 1843-14 Mar 1880 
	(ss/w Albin Douglass) "His Wife" "Mother"
DOUGLASS, William - d. 20 Mar 1886, 72y 4m 11d
STUKESBERRY, Nancy d. 27 Sep 1877, 20y
MacDONALD, Mary - 15 Mar 1812-10 Mar 1888
UNKNOWN, H.D.A. (footstone next to a base)
SMITH, A. C. - 1856-1918 "Mother" "At Rest"
SMITH, R. H. - 13 Jun 1849-4 Jan 1910 "Husband"

Of the above stones, the Smith stones are together, but knocked 
over, and the 3 Douglass stones are together. The others are 
scattered around the cemetery. Only Nancy Stutesberry's stone 
seems to be relatively unharmed, intact, and upright.

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