Whittington Cemetery
Barry Co., MO
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| Name | Born | Died | Research Notes & Inscriptions | Researcher or Resource |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, Carl | Abt. 1902 | Oct. 14, 1905 | Research Note: You can no longer see his name on the small red stone. He was a son of Henry C. and Julia (Whittington) Cooper and a grandchild of William Whittington. - Cassville Democrat, Oct. 14, 1905 - Washburn News Items: Died Oct. 14, Carl, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooper of Eagle Rock, of diphtheria. They formerly resided in this vicinity and will have the heartfelt sympathies of their many friends. | Family Records Online Obit Headstone Darla Ball Marbut |
| COOPER, G. Grant | Mar. 1897 Eagle Rock, Barry Co., MO |
Apr. 1916 Monett, Barry Co., MO |
Research Note: Son of Julia Whittington born Kings Prairie, Barry Co., MO and Henry C. Cooper born Eudora, KS. Henry Cooper of Salina, KS was the informant on the death certificate. - April 6, 1916, Thursday, Cassville Republican - Munsey News: The body of Grant Cooper was shipped from Monett Friday to be buried by the side of his mother in the Whittington Cemetery. Grant was 19 years old. He died of typhoid and pneumonia fever. The funeral services were conducted by Revs. Carter and Haddock in the Munsey School house. He leaves many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. The people of Munsey extend their sympathy to the bereaved ones. - Phyllis' Note: His death certificate has birth date as Apr. 9, 1898, born Eagle Rock, Barry Co., MO, and the death date as Mar. 30, 1916, Monett, Barry Co., MO. Henry Cooper of Salina, KS was the informant. - Death Certificate | Online Obit Headstone Darla Ball Marbut Death Certificate Phyllis Long |
| COOPER, Julia Belle (WHITTINGTON) | July 28, 1876 | Aug. 26, 1908 | Research Note: She married Henry Cooper, December 8, 1895, married by George Reed, JP. Henry died in 1933 and is buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery in San Bernardino, CA. | MO Marriage Records Headstone Darla Ball Marbut |
| COOPER, Phoebe | Abt. 1907 OK |
No Date | Research Note: Daughter of Henry C. and Julia (Whittington) Cooper. Henry apparently left Phoebe with the Keith's after Julia's death. - Darla didn't find a stone for her. She also said that she wonders if Phoebe is buried here at Whittington. - 1910 Census, Roaring River, Barry, Missouri - Isaac D. Keith, age 64, married twice, married 30 years, born IN, father born KY, mother TN; Nancy A., wife, age 58, married twice, married 30 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, born IN, father born OH, mother IN; Phoebe Cooper, boarder, age 3, born OK, parents born MO. - 1920 Census, Roaring River, Barry, Missouri - Isaac Keith, age 74, born IN, parents born IN; Nancy, wife, age 68, born IN, parents born IN; Odessa Jones, granddaughter, age 13, born KS, parents born KS; Phoebe Cooper, boarder, age 12, born OK, parents born MO. | Headstone Darla Ball Marbut Census Phyllis Long |
| JONES, Bertha (ROWLAND) | Abt. 1878 Independence, Montgomery Co., KS |
May 26, 1911 Barry Co., MO |
Research Note: Bertha C. Rowland, age 18, married William H. Jones, age 43, Feb. 25, 1896, Washburn, Barry Co., MO. Her death certificate names John Rowland as her father and Nancy A. (Kelley) Rowland, born Boone Co., IN, as her mother. (Nancy second married Isaac Daniel Keith.) She was a laundress and was about 30 years old. The cause of her death was given as tuberculosis. Isaac D. Keith, Cassville, MO, gave the information. - William first married Margaret Ann Talbott. She committed suicide after killing two of her children. According to the news article, they are buried at Washburn Prairie Cemetery. No stones found, must be in unmarked grave or the stones are not readable. William is buried at Seligman Cemetery. - June 1, 1911, Thursday, Cassville Republican - Eagle Rock News: Bertha Jones about 30 years of age died at her mother's Mrs. I. D. Keith's on the 26th and was laid to rest in the Whittington Cemetery the 26. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn their loss. She had been sick for about six months with lung trouble. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family. - Mrs. William Jones died Thursday at her home near Roaring River Spring of tuberculosis, age about thirty years. Funeral services were held Friday Conducted by Rev. J. G. Elkins of this city and the body laid to rest in the Whittington Cemetery on Roaring River. A husband and three children are left in the family. - Cassville Republican, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1894 - Roaring River News: Miss Bertha Rowland, who has been visiting her grandfather, Mr. Kelley, and other relatives and friends here, returned to Seligman, Friday. - Death Certificate | Online Obit Death Certificate Donna Cooper Note Darla Ball Marbut Online Newspapers Census Phyllis Long |
| KEITH, Isaac Daniel | Nov. 7, 1846 Hancock Co., IN |
June 16, 1923 Roaring River Twp., Barry Co., MO |
Inscription: "9 Kansas Cav, Co D" - Research Note: Civil War Soldier. Death certificate indexed as I. D. Kieth. He was 77 years, 7 months, and 9 days old. Widowed. Informant looks like maybe Charles Everett. Parents not named. Son of William C. Keeth, buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, and Christiana Burton, buried at Carpenter Cemetery, Iola, Allen Co., KS. His wife was Nancy A. (Kelley) Rowland. He filed for his Civil War Pension on July 21, 1896 from MO. - 1900 Census, Roaring River, Barry, Missouri - Isaac D. Keith, born Sept. 1846 IN, age 53, married 12 years, father born KY, mother IN; Nancy A., wife, born July 1857 IN, age 48, married 12 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, father born DE, mother IN; Myrtle G., daughter, born Jan. 1891 MO, age 9. - 1910 Census, Roaring River, Barry, Missouri - Isaac D. Keith, age 64, married twice, married 30 years, born IN, father born KY, mother TN; Nancy A., wife, age 58, married twice, married 30 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, born IN, father born OH, mother IN; Phoebe Cooper, boarder, age 3, born OK, parents born MO. - 1920 Census, Roaring River, Barry, Missouri - Isaac Keith, age 74, born IN, parents born IN; Nancy, wife, age 68, born IN, parents born IN; Odessa Jones, granddaughter, age 13, born KS, parents born KS; Phoebe Cooper, boarder, age 12, born OK, parents born MO. - Death Certificate | Headstone Darla Ball Marbut Census KS Marriage Index Phyllis Long |
| KEITH, Nancy (KELLEY) (ROWLAND) | 1851 IN |
July 10, 1921 | Research Note: No stone found. Nancy Kelley, age 20, married John Rowland, age 30, on July 26, 1876 in Montgomery Co., KS. She was divorced from John Rowland in the 1880 census, living with her parents, Elijah Kelley and Nancy Margaret Keith and daughter Bertha Rowland. Isaac D. Keeth/Keith, age 36, married Nancy A. Rowland on Aug. 29, 1881 in Allen Co., KS. | Census KS Marriage Index Phyllis Long |
| MALONEY, Lucinda (WHITTINGTON) | May 27, 1825 Bartholomew Co., IN |
Dec. 26, 1899 Eureka Springs, AR |
Inscription: Lucinda Whittington, daughter of John Wesley Whittington and Catherine Davis, married John Maloney. The last known of John Maloney was when he enlisted in the Mexican War at the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Grayson Co., TX. - This obit says she was buried in Munsey Cemetery but she has a marker here in Whittington Cemetery. No stone found at Munsey for her. - Cassville Republican, December 28, 1899 - Eagle Rock News: Died Monday, Dec. 26, at Eureka Springs, Grandma Maloney, of dropsy. Grandma Maloney was the mother of Houston Maloney of this place and for some time made her home with Little John Whittington, who moved to Eureka Springs a few months ago. She had been under the care of the physician for some time and was getting very old. Her remains were brought here and interred in the Munsey Cemetery Wednesday. - Samuel Houston Maloney, buried at Munsey Cemetery, was a son of John and Lucinda (Whittington) Maloney. They were listed on the 1850 census for Denton Co., TX: John Maloney 36 born in KY, Lucinda, age 29, born in IN, M. (Margery Ann b. June 14, 1842, MO), Catherine b. Feb. 27, 1844 in MO, Julia Ann b. June 13, 1846 in MO and Samuel H. born March 6, 1850 in TX. They traveled to Texas with Lucinda Whittington's family returning to Missouri just before the Civil War. The last known of John Maloney was when he enlisted in the Mexican War at the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Grayson Co., TX. Samuel Houston Maloney's grandparents were John Whittington and his wife Catherine Davis. - John Whittington was buried in Bethel Baptist Cemetery, born 1799 KY and died in 1862. He was killed during the Civil War when he refused to give up his property to the Federal Army. Catharine Davis, born 1804 and died in 1885 is buried in Kings Prairie/New Liberty Cemetery. - Of interest, is the 1860 census for Lucinda. - 1860 Census, Franklin, Newton Co., Missouri - Isaac Southerland, age 34, born AR; Lucinda, age 34, born IN; Margery, age 17, born MO; Catharine, age 14, born MO; Samuel, age 10, born TX. | Family Bible Census Headstone Darla Ball Marbut |
| WHITTINGTON, Alzada (LOCKWOOD) (BETTERTON) |
Dec. 7, 1882 | July 9, 1919 Vinita, Craig Co., OK |
Research Note: Daughter of William Whittington and Nancy Jane Medlin (Evans) Whittington. Alzada married at age 17 to Eli Lockwood, age 27, on Dec. 24, 1899 in Eagle Rock, Barry Co., MO. He died in 1917 and Alzada was the informant on the death certificate. She married second Monroe Betterman who shot her. - In the 1910 census, Monett, Barry Co., MO, they had 2 children Fred Lockwood, age 8; Mamie Lockwood, age 7; and her mother Jane Whittington, age 69 was living with them. - Alzada has a stone shared with Eli Lockwood in Washburn Prairie Cemetery but I doubt she is buried there as it states in the Cassville Republican, Thursday, July 17, 1919, that "R. W. Whittington received a message of the murder at once and went to Vinita, had the body of his sister embalmed, brought it to Eagle Rock Thursday for interment". Just speculation that she is buried in Whittington Cemetery. - Cassville Republican, Thursday, July 17, 1919 - Murders Wife - Monroe Betterton who lived for a time at Monett shot and killed his wife, Alzada Betterton in Vinita, Okla., Wednesday July 9th. Three shots were fired, one of which passed through the heart killing her instantly. Mrs. Betterton was before she was married, Miss Alzada Whittington. She was a sister of R. W. Whittington of Eagle Rock. She was first married to Eli Lockwood. About six moths ago she and Monroe Betterton were married. At the June term of the Barry county circuit court she was granted a divorce. Shortly after the divorce was granted her, Betterton called upon her and forced her to agree to a remarriage. Then a day or two later went to Mt. Vernon and were married and went to Vinita to visit Betterton's family. While at the home of one of his son's without any warning whatever, Betterton placed himself in a room of the home where he could safeguard any attempt at escape and when his wife entered the room began shooting. Three shots were fired, one taking effect in an arm, one entered a lung and the third shot which penetrated the heart caused instant death. R. W. Whittington received a message of the murder at once and went to Vinita, had the body of his sister embalmed, brought it to Eagle Rock Thursday for interment. Betterton was at once arrested and lodged in jail upon a charge of murder. One of his boys and a little girl saw the shooting and have told the officers just how it occurred. A few years ago he was convicted of murder of his second wife, sentenced to life imprisonment but later paroled. Mrs. Betterton leaves four children by her first marriage one brother, R. W. Whittington of Eagle Rock, and two sisters; Mrs. Lucinda Pendergraft of Stone County and Mrs. Artella Waltrip of Monett. | Census MO Marriage Records Cassville Republican Phyllis Long |
| WHITTINGTON, William | Jan. 23, 1844 MO |
Aug. 18, 1897 Barry Co., MO |
Research Note: Wm Whittington, son of John W. Whittington and Catharine Davis, married Nancy Jane (Medlin) Evans, July 14, 1869 in Lawrence Co., MO. She is buried in Kings Prairie/New Liberty Cemetery, died in 1929. Her first husband was James Evans. - Cassville Republican, August 26, 1897 - Died at Eagle Rock, Wednesday, August 18, Wm. Whittington age 58 years. The remains were interred in the family cemetery Thursday. | Headstone MO Marriage Records Darla Ball Marbut Online Obit Census Phyllis Long |
