Cemeteries near Auburn, Lincoln County, Missouri

From The Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal, 4:2 (spring 1984), quarterly publication of the Missouri State Genealogical Association, P.O. Box 833, 

Columbia, Missouri 65205-0833.  © Missouri State Genealogical Association. Reprinted in Lincoln County USGenWeb MOGenWeb Cemeteries by permission, 12 January 1999.

Transcribed by Betty Lavy Krieg, prepared by Patricia SummersSmith.

Cemeteries in Lincoln County, Missouri
Cemeteries near Auburn
Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal, 4:2 (spring 1984), reprinted by permission.

Copied by Timothy E. Peterman, 11315 Applewood Drive, Kansas City, MO 64134

Auburn is a tiny community located in Lincoln County about nine miles north of

Troy and about one-half mile west of US 61. Although only a couple of families

live in Auburn today, during the 19th century the area was considerably more populated.

A number of cemeteries are located in the Auburn area. In Vol. I, No. 1 of the

Journal, the names of those buried in two of them-Auburn and Cochran-were reported.

Since then I have located several more cemeteries, each containing very few graves,

but being quite ancient.

A gravel road, once called the Cannonball Route, passes through Auburn on a

north-south axis. About a half mile south of Auburn, there once stood a fort that

dated back to the War of 1812. This fort was located on a hill just above a spring

that is, to this day, known as Fort Spring. The fort stood in what is today a vegetable

garden. The current owner pointed out to me that every year, as he tills his garden,

stones always come to the surface where the walls of the fort once stood.

Located about 200 feet west of the old fort was a cemetery. The legal description is:

100 feet west of the east boundary of the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of

Section 11, Township 51 North, Range 1 West. This cemetery was supposedly started as

a means of burying those who died in a cholera epidemic. This cemetery is more than

160 years old and it is quite possible that many of the stones were removed. Because

all of the stones were for a Galloway family, the cemetery should be called Galloway Cemetery.

The contents of the cemetery were:

1. There were two graves without stones.

2. There were seven graves with stones that were set up as markers and not inscribed.

3. The three readable stones were:

1) Phebe Galloway, born 8 September 1760, died 19 July 1828

2) (Eliza)beth Galloway

Born 6 June 1818, died 15 August 1819

3) (name broken off) Galloway

Born 18 July 1824, died 5 September 18 (illegible)

About a half mile further south along the Cannonball Route was another cemetery.

The legal description is: the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter of the

Northwest Quarter of Section 13, Township 51 North, Range 1 West. The stones in

this cemetery were all out of place, several of them having been apparently piled

near a tree. The contents of this cemetery were:

1. There was one unreadable stone that was flat and probably once inscribed.

2. There were three foundations where stones had once stood erect.

3. There were three large stones with rough sides that did not appear to have

been inscribed.

4. There was a footstone marked I.B.C.

5. There was a stone inscribed "Infant Babe".

6. There were three readable stones:

1) Priscilla Reid

Wife of Nathan Courtney

Born May 10, 1804

Being (...) from Burkley Co., VA in 1833

Died May 17, 1886

Aged 82 years and 7 days

2) Warner Verdier

Born in Jefferson Co., VA

Coming to Mo. 1836

Died Feb. 21, 1880

Aged 79 yrs 7 mos 24 days

3) Hear lieth the Body of Ann Fentom

Died May 15, 1818

Aged 70 years 10 days

The wife of B (or K) L. Fentom

From M (N or V) a...hesitt...old Co. (stone broken off)

There was a cemetery located near where a church once stood, whose congregation

was entirely black. The graves in this cemetery have not been examined yet, but

will probably be reported at a later date.

On the north side of Auburn, there was once a graveyard located near where my

grandmother's old chicken house now stands. My grandmother reported seeing a

grave stone there many years ago inscribed with the name McKay. The only stone

I could find was a footstone inscribed "L.K." This was located within 100 feet

of a house once owned by Dr. Knox.

None of these cemeteries are shown on 7 ½ Quadrangle Maps. The inscriptions were

recorded on April 30, 1983.

From The Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal, 4:2 (spring 1984), quarterly publication of the Missouri State Genealogical Association, P.O. Box 833, 

Columbia, Missouri 65205-0833.  © Missouri State Genealogical Association. Reprinted in Lincoln County USGenWeb MOGenWeb Cemeteries by permission, 12 January 1999.

Transcribed by Betty Lavy Krieg, prepared by Patricia SummersSmith.

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