Prosperity Cemetery is an old church cemetery, the church is now gone. The land was originally donated by Japes Patton Caldwell. Only 4 stones remain:
John Andrew Jackson Lee
31 January 1818-4 May, 1880
Maj. Surgeon
53rd MO E Mie. Civil War
Rachel Henderickson
1822-Unknown
The other two stones are only identified as Little Girl and Woman. Tombstone Inscriptions of Pulaski County states the little girl was an unknown girl killed by lightening, and unknown woman, traveling through, nursed by Mrs. R. Lee.
These Lees were my 3X great-grandparents. Rachel died in 1901. We haven't proven if she was actually buried here.
ReplyDeleteTheir daughter Rebecca was the wife of James Patton Caldwell, who donated the land.