Clinton County MOGenWeb Project

Wilkerson Family Cemetery

Location: adjacent to 1424 S. "C" Highway, southeast of Plattsburg MO

• J. W.
• L. W.
• Wm. S. Wilkerson - date of death 3-18-1862, aged 51 yrs 11 mos 12 days
• Mary B. [Chrisman] - date of death 8-7-????, wife of Wm. B. Chrisman
• Green - no other name or initials, no dates
• John Wilkerson - no dates
• no name, date of birth 7-22-1870, date of death 8-7-1870, daughter of W. B. Chrisman
• no name, died Mar 9, 1863, aged 22 yrs 1 mo 28 days
• Laura? [Wilkerson], date of death 2-19-1878, aged 64 yrs 19 days, wife of W. S. Wilkerson. Inscription: "Farewell my dear children all, from your mother"
• Amanda J. [Arnold], died 6-29-1870, aged 17 yrs 1 mo 21 days, wife of R. B. Arnold, daughter of W. S. & L. Wilkerson
• M. E. C.
• M. ?. C.
• inscription from isolated broken piece of stone:
  "Green grows the ...
  Friend of my better? days
  None ... ... but to love
  ... ... but to you"
• Probably:
  Green be the turf above thee,
    Friend of my better days!
  None knew thee but to love thee,
    Nor named thee but to praise [cf. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)]

Transcriber's notes: Jimmie Lou Courtney chalked the stones, Linda Livingston recorded the data, Bill Livingston "hefted" the stones, so they could be transcribed.  They had to drive through a tall weedy pasture, across a creek bed, and up a "mountain"; then crawl between the "hog wire" and the "barbed wire" above it to find the tombstones were in a jumble at the base of trees.