Click picture for larger view of Mayfield Cemetery’s location in Pulaski County, Missouri. Mayfield Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., 5 miles off J Highway, in the Mark Twain National Forest. Mayfield Cemetery is in a very remote location along a ridge near the Big Piney River.
The oldest legible dated stone is that of Joshua Davis who died 30 August, 1879, approximately 74 years old. The most recent legible stone belongs to Louisa Virginia Deer, wife of John W. Deer who passed away in 1913. At one time, Mayfield Cemetery was well kept, and pictures survive of a “Decoration Day” here. Over time, most of the relatives of those buried here have either passed away themselves or moved away and it is no longer a gathering place on Decoration Day. Today Mayfield Cemetery seems very desolate and abandoned.
Project Preservation, based in Rolla, Missouri is working in conjunction with the National Forestry Service to clean up, restore, and preserve Mayfield Cemetery.
Latitude: 37.7853186
Longitude: -92.0665514
Mayfield Cemetery, Summer 2009. Photo by Pulaski County Obits.
Mayfield Cemetery, Summer 2009. Photo by Pulaski County Obits.
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