John Hadley Cemetery
Barry Co., MO

This cemetery is located southwest of Butterfield, 1/2 mi back in a pasture.
Butterfield Twp.
Land Office Location - S11, T23N, R28W


All the stones in both of the Hadley cemeteries were photographed by Jack Fly in the Spring of 2007. May 23, 2007 - George's, Inc. fenced the cemetery and Jack Fly began repairing stones.

       

Above photos before and after restoration.


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John Hadley house

Back of the house

Deed to John and Sarah's land

Cattle in the cemetery

Setting the John Hadley headstone
L to R: Randy McFarland, Terry Caudill and Joe Chaney

Taking out a tree

Moving Stone.

Cassville Democrat Story



This note was posted before the restoration began: There are two Hadley Cemeteries back in a field and can't be seen from each other. They are separated by two fields, both grown up with weeds and open to the cattle. The cemeteries are a real mess. Trees rotting and falling apart, ground covered with leaves and debris. All of the stones were laying on the ground and off their bases. This was posted in 1999. In August 2001 the weeds were over the hood of the truck and cows were everywhere so if you are in a car visit in the spring or fall when the weeds are down.

Directions: Take 37 south out of Butterfield or north out of Cassville and turn west on FR2150. Cross FR1085 then the Railroad tracks. Right after crossing the RR, there is a private gate into a pasture.

You need to go through numerous some gates and across some pastures. Follow This map

The John Hadley and the Henry Hadley Cemeteries are located at opposite corners of a pasture. The Hadley house was on the John Hadley property.

131 years ago the stone for Henry Hadley was a beautiful white marble stone that marked his grave.

Was this stone a victim of a tornado, falling limbs, curious cattle or vandals? We will never know the answer. Whatever the event that brought it to the ground, it marked the beginning of the end for this cemetery stone. The elements have combined and eroded it away to almost nothing.

The photo of Henry's stone is an example of "sugar stone". The stone dissolves similar to a cube of sugar, crumbling into small granules at the slightest touch. This stone has rapidly deteriorated over the past six years.

This is why the Barry County Genealogical and Historical Society Cemetery Committee is working to restore our cemeteries.

Time is running out!

A lot of our ancestors' headstones will soon be gone!

Submitted by Jack Fly