Ozark County Missouri,  Cemeteries in Ozark County, Charity 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
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Prepared by Willa-Beth Olson and Shirley Henry from the original publication.
Used by permission dated 28 Sep 2004.

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Charity Cemetery
T21, R14, S20
Route W to 261, left two miles

Charity Cemetery takes its name from the former Charity school  district
and lies on land deeded for school purposes by S. E. and  Ida  Hillhouse
and S. W. and Sarah Smith in 1915. The district  was  consolidated  with
Gainesville in 1954-55.

Years before the school district ws  formed  there  had  been  a  burial
ground here.

There are two graves in  the  cemetery  which  are  outlined  with  rock
fences. Albert Hillhouse, son of S. E. and Ida Hillhouse, explained that
this was a method of protecting burials when only shallow  graves  could
be dug because of many rock ledges under shallow soil cover.

There are many unmarked graves, and sixteen are marked with fieldstones.
In addition to two graves with rock fences, there are  two  stones,  one
with initials A. A. M. and date 1900 and the other with the initials  H.
M. and date 1902.

   Information the full names for these burials has not been available.  

Belt, John F., 25 Dec 1856-10 Nov 1933
Belt, Genetty, 14 Oct 1865-10 May 1935
Belt, two infants, 1900 and 1920
Crabtree, Elza, son of P.C. and D.E., 20 Nov 1907-24 Jan 1925,
Jenkins, infant twins of Mr. and Mrs. J. C., 1 Jul 1914-1 Jul 1914
Pitts, Minnie, 23 Nov 1898-21 Sep 1915
Pitts, William S., 20 Jun 1864-11 Jun 1917