Ozark County Missouri, Cemeteries in Ozark County, Miscellaneous Additional Information 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 ==================================================================== Ozark County Cemeteries Miscellaneous Additional Information A number of burial sites were reported to the cemetery committee while the survey of burial grounds was in progress. In some cases, these sites could not be worked into the general survey for various reasons and were classified as miscellaneous. Also, some notes relating to the earlier survey, reprinted under this cover, and related items are included under this classification. Items are listed in alphabetical order. CLOUD NINE AREA The Copeland Cemetery plot (T23, R11, S35) is located just across Spring Creek on Cloud Nine near Caulfield. Because of a hole in the road washed out by high water, Connie Lyons was unable to get to this cemetery. Johnny Griffin, Caulfield, tells of three graves with no inscribed stones near the spring on the old Wilder Ranch, on Cloud Nine. The graves are fenced and well cared for. The place is locally referred to as Graveyard Hole. DAWT AREA Unidentified burial ground reported on James Burkhart farm. Evidence of burial remains but no markers. Report by James Burkhart. DUGGINSVILLE AREA Burial site of child reported somewhere along the old Dugginsville Road. Name of person making the report not secured. JEFFERSON CITY Two markers erected in Woodlawn Cemetery in Jefferson City by the Missouri General Assembly mark graves if Ozark County men who served in the House of Representatives. One grave is entirely covered by a stone slab that bears this inscription: "Sacred tp the Memory of Robert Hicks, late Representative of Douglas and Ozark Counties. Died February 22, 1863. Age 58 years." The marker at the other grave site is a tall, four-sided stone. On one side is this inscription: "sacred to the memory of M. C. Martin, late Representative from Ozark County, MO. Born in Kentucky and died on the 15th of February, 1868. Age 55 years." M. C. (Moses) Martin had walked from Ozark County to assume his duties in Jefferson City. LUTIE CEMETERY Dean Wallace has called attention to disagreement regarding the first person to be buried in Lutie Cemetery as reported in a 1972 survey, printed in 1985, and reprinted under this cover. Mr. Wallace said that some persons say the first burial was "a Jones", and others say it was "a Friend". He reports that S. C. Turnbo wrote in his history that "…Jane Dillwood Friend was the first interment." Mr. Wallace is her great-great-grandson. In the history of Lutie Cemetery, Brooksie McGinnis and the late Rainey Webster, great-granddaughters of James and Mary Jane Friend, wrote that the first burial was Ed Milit; second was a black man known only as Hall; and next was Mary Jane Friend. All burials were in 1867, the year James and Mary Jane Friend gave land for the cemetery. Instead of a homestead, as the Lutie Cemetery survey reported, Mr. Wallace said James and Mary Jane Friend purchased their land from "the Jones family." NOBLE AREA Located in the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section36, Township 24, Range 15, are the burial sites of Martin R. Smith and his wife Elizabeth. In the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the same section are graves of three members of the Grabeel family. Martin R. and Elizabeth Smith were both born ca. 1815, and both died in the 1880's. They settled in the area early and received their land patent in 1853. Andrew Grabeel, who bought the property after the Smiths died, moved to Douglas County around 1910. In the late 1970's, the late Rev. Billy Grabeel moved the remaining headstone from the original burial site to the Ava Cemetery. Information from Dexter Hawkins NOTTINGHILL AREA Three burial sites were reported on the Murl Daniel farm, section 19, Township 23, Range 14. The burials are said to be two Rufe (Rof, Rofs, Roof) children and an Indian man. Mr. Daniel said when he bulldozed the field where the graves are, he left a tree to mark each burial. The parents of the babies are said to be early landowners in the area. Information from Murl Daniel. SOUDER CEMETERY The name of John Henry Naugle was omitted from the listing of inscriptions in the Souder Cemetery survey compiled in 1964, printed in 1985, and reprinted under this cover. The stone with his name also has the name of his wife inscribed, and her name was included in the survey. Her name was Nancy Mahala (Thomas) Naugle. On the stone, the inscription reads, "Nancy M. Naugle, 1880-1953." John Henry Naugle's dates, inscribed on the same stone with is name, are 1873-1942. TECUMSEH AREA Formerly a cemetery of some twenty-five to thirty graves marked only by fieldstones was located east of Tecumseh bridge and near the Tecumseh store which burned in 1988. The burial ground was on the forner Walter and Samantha Cope Cole farm. After the farm was sold, all evidence of the cemetery was removed. Earlene Hicks, in reporting on this former burial ground, said her mother, the late Edna Cole Blacksher, spoke of Isoms, Kings, and other families being buried there. THEODOSIA AREA Another old burial plot contains seven or eight graves, but only one can be identified, that of Agnes L. Kirby. The plot is located on land now owned by Jim Henderson. Mr. Henderson's abstract shows that in 1880, one-tenth of an acre was reserved for the cemetery when the land belonged to Nel Reich. The plot is on the south side of Highway 160 west of Theodosia just east of State Road P. THORNFIELD AREA A few small burial plots in the Thornfield area with no markers or identifications have been discovered during the survey. One such is the Hash family plot on the Dan Donnelly farm. Also noted were the Riggs plot on the Clell Jackson farm and a plot containing a dozen or more graves on the Audie Evans farm. According to Mr. Evans, the parents of Bill Wilson are buried there. Also on Evans' land is another plot called Harrington Cemetery. "Several 1918 flu victims and Charlie Truener's baby are buried there." Mr. Evans said. Two graves in another plot on land belonging to Norma Evans are those of State Representative Larkin E. Brown and his daughter, both covered by large cement slabs. The inscriptions at these gravesites read, "Larkin E. Brown, Nov. 23, 1862-Mar. 2, 1921" and "Iva Brown, Aug 21, 1908-Oct. 19, 1910, daughter of L. E. and Nancy." The fifteen-year-old son of John and Nancy Piland, Wesley Yokum Piland, is buried somewhere near Foil, supposedly the victim of bushwackers during the Civil War. He had missing for several days and was buried where found. An interesting article appeared in the August 24, 1989, Springfield, MO, NEWS-LEADER regarding a gravesite in Ozark County. Union Cpl. Harrison Collins, a Civil War soldier believed to have received on of the first 300 National Medals of Honor and who died nearly 100 years ago, was honored August 23, 1989, at the National Cemetery in Springfield, Missouri. Unfortunately, he wasn't there-in body, at least. Plans were to exhume his body from its first resting place, a cemetery in Isabella, Ozark County, Missouri, and bury it with other Union and Confederate soldiers at National Cemetery. However, Sonny Wells, head of the Medal of Honor Historical Foundation, who had planned to do the exhumation for Collins' descendants, overslept because his alarm didn't go off, and the job didn't get done. Arrangements had already been made for the ceremony, which went as scheduled, even without the honored soldier's remains. The 10 minute ceremony culminated more than a year and a half of searching and planning by Collins' descendants, who discovered he earned his Medal of Honor in a Christmas Eve, 1864, attack on a Confederate Unit in the Battle of Richland Creek, Tennessee. He died in Christmas Day, 1890, and was buried in a tiny Isabella cemetery, the resting-place of his wife Sarah Caroline Williams, whom he married in 1859. Because Collins' wife never had a headstone, his descendants intend to put up a marker for both Great-grandparents after the Collins' body is moved. Many single graves throughout the county hold those who are gone and forgotten.