Monday, February 15, 2016

Cemetery in Bennett Spring State Park, Laclede County, Missouri

There is a small family cemetery located in a remote area of Bennett Spring State Park in Laclede County, Missouri.  More specifically, it is located in the southwest part of Lot 3 of the Northeast quarter of Section 6 in Township 34 North, Range 17 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian.  The geographic location is Latitude: N37°42'06.0", Longitude: W092°50'36.4" (NAD 1983) as measured with a handheld GPS unit. The cemetery first appears in the records of the Laclede County, Missouri, Recorder of Deeds as a reservation in a Deed of Trust filed for record in Deed Book I, page 386, dated June 20, 1889.

The graves are arranged in two rows oriented North-South with headstones facing West and footstones to the East.

Following are the inscriptions on the headstones as transcribed on October 10, 2008:

- Eastern row, beginning at the North end and proceeding South:


Robert Jr.
son of 
R. & E. M. Murrell
Feb. 26, 1907


Emma M.
Dau. of
T. P. & M. E.
Lowdermilk
Born
Nov. 16, 1880
Died
Feb. 25, 1907
Gone to a better land


To My Husband
T. P. Lowdermilk
Born
Aug. 21, 1852
Died
Nov. 27, 1907
May he rest in peace.


To Our Mother
M. E. Lowdermilk
Born
Mar. 9, 1855
Died
Nov. 25, 1933
may she rest in peace.


- Next row West, beginning at the North end and proceeding South:


In Memory of
Ellefare
wife of
Dr. W. A. Jenkins
Born
Jan 17, 1872
Died
April 25, 1894


Thomas Jenkins
PVT 8 MO CAV
FEB 10 1839   OCT 26 1915
[military marker]


Nancy Jenkins
Born
Oct 26, 1819
Died
July 2, 1880


William L.
son of
W A & Ella
Jenkins
Born
Nov. 1, 1890
Died
Jul. 17, 1891


Nancy E.
Jenkins
Born
June 4, 1880
Died
Aug. 24 1880


Susan E.
Jenkins
Born
Jan. 1, 1871
Died
Mar. 26, 1889
We will meet again


Rebecca
wife of
Thomas Jenkins
Born
----- 12, 1853
Died
Apr. 1, 1889
We will meet again


The row continues south with 3 unmarked set rocks with elongated depressions to the east. The first two rocks appear to have accompanying foot rocks.


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courtesy of Steven E. Weible