Ozark County Missouri, Cemeteries in Ozark County, Baldwin - Abandoned Cemetery A SURVEY OF OZARK COUNTY CEMETERIES NINETY-ONE BURIAL SITES INVENTORIED 1986 – 1988 By: Connie Lyons With Cemetery Histories by Various Contributors And A Miscellaneous of information This Volume includes a Reprint Of Twenty-Four Cemetery Inventories Published in 1985 Published by the Ozark County Genealogical and Historical Society Gainesville, Missouri 1989 -------------- Prepared by Willa-Beth Olson and Shirley Henry from the original publication. Used by permission dated 28 Sep 2004. ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by: © Willa-Beth Olson © Compiled by: Ozark Co. Gen. & Historical Society ==================================================================== Baldwin - Abandoned Cemetery T23, R15, S21 Route Z, 2 miles west of Nottinghill This abandoned burial ground lies in what is now the Ava Ranger District of the Mark Twain National Forest. In June of 1982 the grounds were cleared of brush and fenced under direction of Jerry Decker, resource associate at rhe district. The work was done by a Youth Consrevation Corps crew, and the site was inventoried by Lyn Carpenter, a ranger in the district. Older residence in the area at the time of the survey reported a number of graves in the cemetery once had headstones, several with the family name of Baldwin. The first member of this family to settle in the area was Lewis M. Baldwin (and wife- no other name given) who were granted a 155-acre homestead by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892. Another member of this family to live in the area was Arthur Y. Baldwin, Western District Judge, 1892-1900. At the time of the survey, the remains of an old homesite, including toppled chimney rocks and building logs, were reported near the cemetery. Within the fenced burial ground, one headstone remains along with eleven gravesites. The inscription on the stone reads: Roy, son of J. M. and G. E. Lane, 1 Jan 1897-born and died suddenly.