From The St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, 13:4 (winter 1980), quarterly publication of the St. Louis Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 43010, #4 Sunnen Drive, Suite 140, St. Louis, Missouri 63143-0010. © St. Louis Genealogical Society. Reprinted in Lincoln County USGenWeb MOGenWeb Cemeteries by permission, 22 October 1998. Transcribed by Steven L.Watts, 9 November 1998.
Cemeteries in Lincoln County, Missouri
McClanahan Cemetery
St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, 13:4 (winter 1980), p. 125.
Reprinted by permission.
Submitted to StLGS by members William L. Douglas Jr. and Merle M. Jackson.
Go north of Troy, MO about 12 mi. to H-E, go left on E .5 mi to first gravel road on left (Auburn, MO). Go south on gravel road 1.6 mi., where road turns sharply left. (Park here.) Walk through field gate leading to farm. Graveyard is inside gate to the left under a large tree. Stones are scattered and knocked over. Some weeds. Graveyard is in very poor condition. Here lieth the body of Ann FENTON Died May 15 1818 Aged 70 years 10 days The wife of R. L. FENTON Born Manchester England Footstone - I. B. C. Footstone - P. R. C. Broken stone with numbers -- 88 Priscilla REID wife of Nathan COURTNEY Born May 10, 1804 Emigrated from Burkley Co., Va in 1833 Died May 17, 1886 ages 82 years 7 days Gone but not forgotten Warner VERDIER Born in Jefferson Co., Va. Came to Mo. 1836 Died Feb 21 1880 aged 79 yrs 7 mos 24 days Gone but not forgotten Broken stone with inscription - Infant Babe Due to the scattered condition of these stones there was no way to put them in the order or rows they belonged in originally. Believed to be more graves here but due to the condition of this graveyard unable to find more. (census taken August 24, 1979)
From The St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, 13:4 (winter 1980), quarterly publication of the St. Louis Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 43010, #4 Sunnen Drive, Suite 140, St. Louis, Missouri 63143-0010. © St. Louis Genealogical Society. Reprinted in Lincoln County USGenWeb MOGenWeb Cemeteries by permission, 22 October 1998. Transcribed by Steven L.Watts, 9 November 1998.
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