St. Anne Cemetery

St. Anne Cemetery was relocated to Bloodland Cemetery in 1942.

St. Anne Cemetery's original location has not been established.

Bloodland Cemetery

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Bloodland Cemetery on Iowa Avenue, Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Photo by Pulaski County Obits.

Bloodland Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., at the former site of the town of Bloodland. The town was razed in the early 1940’s to make way for the Fort Leonard Wood military installation. It is located on Fort Leonard Wood, about 3 miles south of the airport, across the road from the Bloodland Range House near Range #11.

Bloodland Cemetery was originally a graveyard in the town of Bloodland, Missouri. The town was razed by the government to build Fort Leonard Wood. Fort Wood has named Bloodland Range Control to honor the once thriving town in Pulaski County.

According to Tombstone Inscriptions of Pulaski County this cemetery also includes graves that were previously located in Routh Cemetery, Hicks Cemetery, and St. Anne Cemetery, which were reburied here, under authority of a government contract in 1942. This graveyard has approximately 40 unmarked graves, and is the subject of local legends that speak of haunting and odd events which supposedly occur here, dating back to 1942.

According to the Fort Leonard Wood newspaper, The Guidon, Bloodland Cemetery "holds a prohibitionist, a Mason and a man who served with Company C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, most likely during the Civil War."

Latitude: 37.6914309
Longitude: -92.1512745
Township 34-Range 11-Section 04

Bloodland Cemetery is the location of the graves that were moved from St. Anne, Routh, and Hicks Cemeteries. Photo by Pulaski County Obits, September 2009

Arnett Shields 1890-1908

This entry is from the J.J. Watts collection. John J. Watts hailed from Warren, Maine and moved to the northern Ozarks of Missouri sometime after the Civil War. He was a circuit-riding Baptist Minister and his territory covered Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties and parts of Maries and Dent Counties. He established a cemetery, Watt’s Lawn, which is located 1 mile West of J Highway, near the Pulaski County-Phelps County line. This collection covers 1878-1912.

Arnett, son of Peter S. and sis Nancy Catherine Shields, died at his father's home near St. Anne Ch. July 19th 1908 at 6 p.m., aged 18 ys, 6 ms. & 8 ds., sick 4 ms. & 9 days with pneumonia fever. He was of a family of 11 children, all living but 2, Lolie May & Arnett. All present but John Harvey who is in Nevada. 2 grand parents living, grandfather John Prock and Grandma Shields. Burial & funeral sermon at St. Anne Ch. & cemetery, July 20, 1908.

11 January, 1890 - 19 July, 1908

***St. Anne Cemetery was moved to Bloodland Cemetery on Fort Leonard Wood, by a government contract in 1942