Okay Gang!! It’s been a few days since I was out and about “Exploring” the Back Roads of Lafayette County, Mo. It was on Saturday, the 14th 2014..... Now I want to add an important Note here: Now when it comes to Old Cemeteries, or an Old Church or Schoolhouse to Old Houses or Buildings, I just get back to these Old Families Historic Cemeteries around are Surrounding areas of Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, Johnson, Saline, Pettis to Cooper Counties, of Missouri, when found and located, it would be a Good thing here and Add them with an Archaeological site no. from DNR, Shipo, with this kind of Documentation of a Historic Cemetery, it can Save some time when that Old Road project comes along or that Sewer Lagoon, this saves it!! So I, Christopher N. Cooper I want to add a flare to Old Historic Cemetery and make it an Archaeological and Historical Project, adding it with an Site No. from DNR, this is something that I choose to do. I would like to see this happen to these kinds of Historic Places!! And Now Back to the Fun Stuff – Chris & Gang!! And then ---- My trip took me from Odessa, Laf. Co. area starting off of I-70 following along the East fork of the Big Sniabar -aka- Sni-A-Bar Creek drainage system and areas of the Little Sni-A-Bar Creek, now I had plan to see some Areas of mine that I had visited several times in my past life!! But I did have One Major thing to do and I had my thoughts that I wanted to see this One Historic Cemetery, South of Lexington and NE of Odessa and SE of Wellington, all in Lafayette County, Mo.... I had to see this one Cemetery for myself and I wanted to Explore the Hilltop or Ridge and see this Cemetery!! On all of the Maps and they all Read - Cemetery but in 2012 a fellow Findagrave friend of mine, add a list of you all was buried there or what Headstone could be found! The Cemetery is now known as the Historic Graves Cemetery!! Now on the Findagrave site listed only 14 each graves there! Now the day I was there I saw only at least 10 each, 4 of them were hiding from me!! Now I may not be related to these early Folks and Families here of a Period of Lafayette County, Mo., of 1830s to 1840s and 1858, these Families being Early Pioneers or Settlers of Lafayette County, Mo... Buried here are David A. Graves, his father, John Graves, some of Graves children, including one son being a young John W. Graves, born in 1851 and dies in 1855, two children of the Callaway family and two older ladies, a Martha A. B. Tyree and Mary Tyree…. Now I do love Exploring and seeing these kinds of Old Cemeteries, it’s in my Blood to do so! I started on the Back Roads of Osage & Gasconade Counties at the age of 17 to 18 Years old and I was there when my family of Cousins, Aunts & Uncles, my Mom and Father, we together Repaired and Fenced in the Old John Burton Cooper Family Cemetery at Cooper Hill, in Osage Co., Mo. - this was about 1973 or 1974!! The Headstones, with the name of John W. Graves, now this is the son of David A. and Lavina Campbell Letton Graves: And there is a little Hint of some of the other Gravestones/Headstones of a Catherine L. Callaway, daughter of James A. & Ann Callaway, she died on the March 24, 1848 - Aged: 4 Years, 5 days Old --- So sad to see things like this, it always gets to me those Young Ones!! Some of the Other Gravestones, maybe! The View of the Old Historic Graves Cemetery, located or situated at the extreme High point of the Southern end of the SW to NE Hilltop or Ridgetop...... So I do hope that I haven’t Bored anyone here with my Investigations or Exploring those Back Roads for something Old or Really Old to Historic! For it is some that I do Love Doing in my Life!!!
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:00:32 +0000
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