Showing posts with label Cemetery Descriptions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemetery Descriptions. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Myers Cemetery

Myers Cemetery is more commonly known as Macedonia Cemetery.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Big Piney River Cemetery

The stones in this cemetery have been moved to Dry Creek Cemetery. Only an empty field, and the slightest indentions in the ground let you know that there are burials six feet below. A fence used to mark the perimeter. Near Ferrell Bluff. Grave sites confirmed by Freddy Gray JR.


N37 55.162 W -92 14.487 (GPS Coordinates by Pulaski County Historical Society 12-6-2010)

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Fort Leonard Wood

Missouri Veterans Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, Missouri, near Fort Leonard Wood, on H Highway near Interstate 44, exit 156.

Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Fort Leonard Wood is expected to be completed December 2009. The cemetery occupies 229 acres that was donated by U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center and Fort Leonard Wood. Initial construction will consist of 25 acres and will include an administration building, maintenance facility, a committal shelter for conducting interment services, and a columbarium wall for cremation interment. Construction of Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Fort Leonard Wood, began late 2008 with a $7.5 million federal grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Missouri Veterans Cemeteries are also located in Springfield, Bloomfield, Higginsville, and Jacksonville.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Pulaski County Cemetery Descriptions Index

Bold type indicates that photographs of the cemetery are available.


Assembly of God Cemetery
Ballard Cemetery
Bartlett Cemetery
Bates Cemetery
Berean Cemetery
Bethany Cemetery

Bethlehem Cemetery
Beulah Cemetery
Big Piney River Cemetery
Bloodland Cemetery
Boulware Cemetery
Bradford Cemetery (Fort Leonard Wood)
Bradford Cemetery (H Highway)
Bradford Cemetery (J Highway)
Brake Cemetery
Brian Cemetery
Brushy Hill Cemetery
Buckhorn Baptist Church Cemetery
Burchard Cemetery
Carmack Cemetery
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Center Point Cemetery
Christeson Cemetery
Clark Cemetery
Cole Cemetery
Colley Hollow Cemetery
Concord Cemetery
Copeland Cemetery
Corey Cemetery
Crawford Ousley Cemetery
Crismon Cemetery
Crocker Cemetery
County Farm Cemetery
Davis Cemetery (Phelps County)
Decker Cemetery
Deerlick Cemetery
Dixon Cemetery
Dodds Cemetery
Dry Creek Cemetery
Dunkard Cemetery
Eagan Cemetery
Egan Cemetery
Eliza Jane Laycock Thomas Gravesite
Elm Grove Cemetery
Ervin Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery
Ferrell Cemetery
Fire Baptized Holiness Cemetery
Flea Hollow Cemetery
Fox Crossing Cemetery
Frank Graham Farm Cemetery
Friendship Cemetery
Gaddy Cemetery
Gasconade Cemetery
George Cemetery
Goodman cemetery
Gospel Ridge Cemetery
Gospel Ridge Union Cemetery
Green Cemetery
Hale Cemetery
Haley Cemetery
Hamilton Cemetery
Hamilton Farm Cemetery
Hammock Cemetery
Hancock Cemetery
Hawkeye Cemetery
Hazelgreen Cemetery (Laclede County)
Hensley Cemetery
Hiawatha Lodge Cemetery
Highpoint Cemetery
Hicks Cemetery
Hogan Cemetery
Hooker Cemetery
Hopewell Cemetery
Humboldt Cemetery
Idumea Cemetery
Irish Gravesite
Johnson Cemetery
Joiner Cemetery
Kenner Cemetery
Knapp Cemetery (Phelps County)
Krone-Tyree Cemetery
Laughlin Cemetery
Lawson Cemetery
Lawson Cemetery (Phelps County)
Layman Cemetery
Leeman Cemetery
Lewis Cemetery (Camden County)
Lipscomb Cemetery
Macedonia Cemetery
Madden Ford Cemetery
Manes Cemetery
Mayes-Gillispie Cemetery
Mayfield Cemetery
McCann Cemetery
McCourtney Cemetery
Miles Cemetery
Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Fort Leonard Wood
Mitchell Cemetery
Mitchell Chapel Cemetery
Mitschele Cemetery
Messersmith Cemetery
Morgan Cemetery
Mt. Gibson Cemetery
Mt. View Cemetery (Camden County)
Musgrave Cemetery
Nelson Cemetery
Nelson Wood Cemetery
Nicks Cemetery
Nicks Cemetery (Laclede County)
Oaklawn Cemetery
O'Malley Cemetery
Owens Cemetery
Palace Church Cemetery
Parsons Cemetery
Pemberton Cemetery
Pharris Cemetery
Pickering Cemetery
Pillman Cemetery
Pisgah Church Cemetery
Porter Cemetery
Portuguese Cemetery
Post Cemetery
Prosperity Cemetery
R.A. Hamilton Cemetery
Ralph Christeson Farm Cemetery
Ramsey Cemetery
Rayl Cemetery
Relfe Cemetery
Resurrection Cemetery
Riddle Cemetery
Roberts & Gray Cemetery
Rockwell Cemetery
Rolling Heath Cemetery
Rollins Cemetery
Rose Lawn Cemetery
Routh Cemetery
Rowland & McGowan Cemetery
Ryther Cemetery
Saling Cemetery
Schlict Cemetery
Seaton Cemetery
Sewell Cemetery
Sheppard Cemetery
Shockley Cemetery
Shultz Cemetery
Shultz Farm Gravesite
Smith Cemetery
Spaulding Cemetery
Spring Creek Cemetery
St. Anne Cemetery
St. John Swede Cemetery
Stories Cemetery
St. Theresa Cemetery
Sunset Memorial Estates Cemetery
Tanner Cemetery
Teeple Cemetery
Thompson Cemetery
Tilley Cemetery
Trout Cemetery (Phelps County)
Trower Cemetery
Turpin Cemetery
Vaughan Cemetery
V.F.W. Ozark Memorial Cemetery
Vickers Cemetery
Wair Chapel Cemetery (Laclede County)
Wall Place Cemetery
Wagon Ford School House Cemetery
Warren Cemetery
Watts Lawn Cemetery
Wayman Cemetery
Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery
Wheeler Cemetery
Wiseman Farm Cemetery
Williams Cemetery
Wood Cemetery
Wrinkle Cemetery
Yarbrough Cemetery
Zion Cemetery

Monday, October 5, 2009

Vaughan Cemetery

Click picture for larger view of Vaughan Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, MissouriClick picture for larger view of Vaughan Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri

Vaughan Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., near Crocker, Missouri, north of Lipscomb Cemetery on Bunker Road.

More information is needed about this cemetery.

Zion Cemetery

Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009

Zion Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., on U Highway, near Crocker, Missouri.

Zion Cemetery is a church cemetery, although the church is no longer active. Some of the family surnames here are: Abbet, Becker, Cole, Cook, Crews, DeFoe, Dodson, Eunus, Fitzgerald, Frye, Funston, Holt, Holtsman, Holtzman, Jennings, Johnson, Kelso, Kimmel, Kinsley, Long, Mackney, Mosley, Neely, Nigh, Penland, Phillips, Reed, Smay, and Thornsberry. The oldest dated stone marks the grave of Mary Elizabeth Holtsman who passed away 12 October, 1883.

Township 37-Range 13-Section 12

Zion Cemetery, near Crocker, Missouri  Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 2009Zion Cemetery, near Crocker, Missouri Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 2009


The old church at Zion Cemetery.  It is believed that the building also served as a school.  Photo by Pulaski County Obits, Oct 2009The old church at Zion Cemetery. It is believed that the building also served as a school. Photo by Pulaski County Obits, Oct 2009

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Elm Grove Cemetery

Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009
Elm Grove Cemetery is located in Camden County, MO., north of Richland, Missouri. Highway 7 to Highway A to Elm Grove Road.

Elm Grove Cemetery is a church cemetery that was established circa 1840. The original cemetery land was donated by Nancy Glover and addition land was donated by the Robert Lambeth family in 2002. There is a very visible division between the "old" cemetery and the "new" cemetery, although the newer cemetery has many older stones.

The newer section of Elm Grove Cemetery, near Richland, Mo.  Photo by Pulaski County ObitsThe newer section of Elm Grove Cemetery, near Richland, Mo. Photo by Pulaski County Obits


The older section of Elm Grove Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri.  Photo by Pulaski County ObitsThe older section of Elm Grove Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri. Photo by Pulaski County Obits


Headstones of members of the Thornsberry family, immediate relations to Margaret Headstones of members of the Thornsberry family, immediate relations to Margaret "Mattie" Thornsberry Atwill, author of Thy Will Be Done, published in 1969. Photo by Pulaski County Obits.

Mt. View Cemetery

Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 3, 2009
Mt. View Cemetery is located in Camden County, MO., near Richland, Missouri. Highway 7 to A Highway to Mt. View Road.

Mt. View Cemetery was established in 1895. It is a church cemetery and is still active.

Mt.Mt. View Cemetery near Richland, MO. Photo by Pulaski County Obits, Oct 2009


Headstone of John W. Polly (1841-1912), Confederate States Army.  Photo by Pulaski County ObitsHeadstone of John W. Polly (1841-1912), Confederate States Army. Photo by Pulaski County Obits

Latitude: 37.93530
Longitude: -92.44490

Wheeler Cemetery (Lipscomb Cemetery)

Wheeler Cemetery is also known as Lipscomb Cemetery.

Lipscomb Cemetery (Wheeler Cemetery)

Click picture for a larger view of Lipscomb Cemetery's location in Pulaski CountyClick picture for a larger view of Lipscomb Cemetery's location in Pulaski County

Lipscomb Cemetery, also known as Wheeler Cemetery, is located in Pulaski County, MO., near Crocker, Missouri, on Bunker Road. It is near the site Wheeler’s Mill was located.

Lipscomb Cemetery is a small, family cemetery with only 4 confirmed burials, Mag Burnett, Floyd Burnett, Nancy Layman (1847-1869), and Mary Polly Lipscomb (died 3 March, 1897).

Latitude: 37.9114287
Longitude: -92.1748902
Township 36-Range 11-Section 30

Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery

Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., on Historic Route 66 in Waynesville, Missouri.

Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery was established in 1945 and is the city cemetery for the town of Waynesville. It is believed that his cemetery has a Potter’s Field section of unknown or indigent people.

Township 36-Range 11-Section 19

Wayman Cemetery (Bradford Cemetery) (Pillman Cemetery) (Spring Creek Cemetery)

Wayman Cemetery is also known as Spring Creek Cemetery.

Pillman Cemetery (Bradford Cemetery) (Wayman Cemetery) (Spring Creek Cemetery)

Pillman Cemetery is also known as Spring Creek Cemetery.

Bradford Cemetery (J Highway), (Pillman Cemetery) Wayman Cemetery) (Spring Creek Cemetery)

Bradford Cemetery (J Highway) is more commonly known as Spring Creek Cemetery.

Spring Creek Cemetery (Wayman Cemetery) (Pillman Cemetery) (Bradford Cemetery)

Click picture for larger view of Spring Creek Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri.Click picture for larger view of Spring Creek Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri.

Spring Creek Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., on Highway J, near Spring Creek, Missouri.

Spring Creek Cemetery is also known as Pillman Cemetery, Bradford Cemetery, and Wayman Cemetery. It is a small, family cemetery with approximately 36 marked graves and many unmarked graves. In addition to members of the Bradford, Pillman, and Wayman families, members of the Drake, Elliott, Fields, Fisher, Gaar, King, Matthews, and Wright families are buried here. The oldest dated tombstone marks the grave of Eve Gaar who was born in Virginia in 1775 and passed away in 1835. One of the newer headstones is that of Martha Pillman Wright who died on Christmas Day 1982, aged 85 years.

Latitude: 37.7625409
Longitude: -92.0259943
Township 35-Range 10-Section 16

Watts Lawn Cemetery

Click picture for a larger view of Watts Lawn Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, MissouriClick picture for a larger view of Watts Lawn Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri

Watts Lawn Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., north of Ross Bridge, in Watts Hollow, near the Phelps County line. J Highway to County Road 6470.

Watts Lawn Cemetery was founded by John Jones Watts, an circuit riding Baptist minister and a Mason. There are over 200 marked graves and 26 unmarked graves here. Family names that are recorded here are: Ashworth, Braiser, Bray, Brookshire, Burnett, Cassidy, Chambers, Clark, Curran, Curtis, Davis, Devers, Gann, Halcomb, Haley, Hamma, Hayes, Hilgert, Hoff, Holcomb, Hood, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keaton, Keeney, Kohanskey, Landreth, Lane, Lawson, Lee, Mabley, manes, McCown, McGown, McMahan, Merrell, Ministers, Mobley, Mooney, Mueller, Preutt, Pruitt, Reagan, Reed, Riden, Ryno, Shaw, Shrout, Sneed, Stroup, Thorp, Thorpe, Underwood, Waddle, Wagoner, Watts, Whittaker, Williams, Wilson, Wolfinbarger, Woods, and Wollsey. The oldest dated stone is believed to be that of Casley Jane Bray who died 3 August 1858, aged 87 years. The cemetery was still in use well into the 1970’s, possibly later.

Latitude: 37.6917084
Longitude: -92.0365493
Township 34-Range 10-Section 04

McCortney Cemetery (Warren Cemetery)

McCortney Cemetery is also known as Warren Cemetery.

Warren Cemetery (McCortney Cemetery)

Warren Cemetery, also known as McCortney Cemetery, is located in southern Pulaski County, MO., “in a field, near the bank of the Big Piney River”, south of Miller Cave and Miller Ebb and Flow Spring. From Big Piney, cross the Ross Bridge and turn left.

The Old Stagecoach Stop Society, with help from the Waynesville LEAP classes, restored the graveyard, starting work in 1989. The oldest stone is that of James Madison Williams and is dated July 18, 1850.

Vickers Cemetery

Vickers Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., 3 miles west of Crocker, off Highway U. It is on land known as the Clifton Jones Farm.

Vickers Cemetery is a small, family cemetery with approximately 11 marked graves. In addition to members of the Vickers family, members of the Phillips and Smith families are also interred here. The oldest dated tombstone marks the grave of a stillborn son of S.D. and N.E. Phillips who was born and died 23 October, 1875. The most recent headstone is that of Nancy K. Vickers who passed away 27 January, 1918, at the age of 79 years.

VFW Ozark Memorial Cemetery

Click picture for larger view of VFW Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri.Click picture for larger view of VFW Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri.

VFW Ozark Memorial Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., near St. Robert, Missouri at 17305 Superior Rd.

VFW Ozark Memorial Cemetery was found in 1984 and the first burials were Stanley Barba, Martin Ferret, Edwin McKendrick, and Patrick Young.