Mt. Comfort Cemetery

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Directions: John and Patricia Dill visited this cemetery during the summer of 1998. It is located on the Vincent Cahalan property near the Newton County, line, several miles south of Pierce City.

They located 17 stones with some form of inscription (James and Sarah Hudson are on the same stone - with two different inscriptions). There were a number of graves, marked only with fieldstones and it is likely that a lot more graves were not marked in at all. There might also have been more that they missed. This is the basic information that they obtained from headstones. The photos, dates and names that we have on the Mt. Comfort pages were added from their research and cemetery work done in 1998.

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This cemetery had been surveyed some time ago, we had a copy of that listing. Our survey did not entirely agree with it. The cemetery is in poor shape, most of the stones are down. At one time it may have been a large cemetery. It is certainly an old cemetery. It is spread out over a fairly large area within it's two acre site, there were probably many unmarked graves. Tradition says this was the original site of the Mt. Comfort Cumberland Presbyterian Church, founded 1843. Only the remains of a cellar indicate the former location of the church. Sometime in the later 1800's the church moved to it's present location at Berwick, Newton County. The names and dates on gravestones in both locations seems to confirm that information.

This is believed to be one of the original pioneer cemeteries in SW Missouri along with the equally abandoned ROSS Cemetery in eastern Newton County, MO. To some degree both of these cemeteries were later replaced by the Berwick and Clear Creek Cemeteries in eastern Newton County (by descendants of some of the original pioneers).

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