Lost
Hill Cemetery
Cemetery ID FAG –
2638089
Jim Henry Township
Section 32, Township 41 North, Range 12 West
Miller
County, Missouri
Lost Hill Cemetery – Hwy 52 from St. Elizabeth take 52 and continue
NE on 52 for 2 ½ miles until you come to Lost Hill Road on the left. The cemetery is a few miles down Lost Hill
Rod and sits off to the right several hundred feet.
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The historic Lost Hill Cemetery is located two and a half
miles North East of St. Elizabeth on Hwy 52.
Just after crossing the Tavern Creek Bridge
the location in believed to be in the tree covered hill on the right (second
drive on the right). There are no stones left standing. This cemetery is
believed to be part of the Lost Hill Community, and location of the first white
settlers in Miller County. The cemetery was started by Henry F. Warren sometime
in the 1800’s. The property is now owned by Curtis Lueckenhoff (Luecke)
Prater, Benjamin Paul FAG # 119971172
1819 – Cannon Co. TN. – Indian Twn. Payne, OK. - Date is Unknown
s/o Archelus Archibald Prater – 1767 – 1854 &
Sally (Hughett) Prater, Archelus and
Sally were married 18 June 1816, in Patrick, Virginia. They were the parents of 6 sons and 7
daughters,
Benjamin Paul Prater is the husband of Elizabeth
Ann (Warren) Prater – 1822 – 1903 - wed
10 Mar. 1839 - FAG # 71971806 - Buried West Adair Cemetery, Mayes Co., Oklahoma
- Elizabeth is the daughter of Henrey V.
Warren & Barbara Warren. Benjamin
Paul Prater and Elizabeth (Warren) Prater were the parents of 8 sons and 1
daughter.
The Life Summary of Benjamin Paul Prater
When Benjamin Paul Prater was born in 1819, in Warren,
Tennessee, United States, his father, Archelaus Archibald Prater, was 53 and
his mother, Sally Hughett, was 23. He married Elizabeth Ann Warren on 10 March
1839, in Cannon, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8
sons and 1 daughter. He died in Indian Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United
States.
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The source for this cemetery and burial
information is a Find A Grave contributor who is researching the burials in
this old cemetery. Reportedly, old gravestones were removed from the area where
they had been toppled by flooding. They apparently reside on a farmland near
the old cemetery area. Some descendants of Benjamin Prater are studying the
family history to document his burial at this site.
Several family trees on Ancestry.com indicate
that Benjamin died in the Oklahoma Territory, where his wife died while
visiting her family in 1903. While Benjamin was alive for the 1860 Federal
census, his wife Elizabeth was listed as a widow in the 1900 census. The year
of Benjamin's death has not been found.
Children of Benjamin Paul Prater & Elizabeth Ann
(Warren) Prater
William W. Pater – 1840 – 1899 -
Thomas Dillard Prater – 1842 – 1883 - buried
West Adair Cemetery, Mayes Co. OK.
FAG # 119782988
Henry Valentine Prater – 1844 – 1935 – buried
Meta Southside Cemetery, Osage Co. Mo.
FAG # 8887356
Sarah Catheryn Prater – 1846 - 1888
Archibald c. Prater – 1848 -
Elijah Lafayette Prater – 1854 – 1860 –
burial details unknown -
FAG # 183697997
Elisha Napoleon Prater – 1854 – 1937 –
Pendleton Cemetery, Maries Co,. Mo.
FAG # 32193369
Lafayette Prater – 1854 - 1854
Samuel B. Prater – 1856 – 1929 – Columbus
City Cemetery, Cherokee Co., KS.
FAG # 21151101151101
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry V Warren and Barbara Eliz
(Tassey) Warren.
She married Benjamin Prater on March 9, 1839
in Cannon County, TN. They had ten children.
1850 Census – Tennessee - Warren-162, district
13, dwelling 1081.
Benjamin, Elizabeth and their children are listed in the
household of Benjamin's father Archelus Prater.
Three of Benjamin and Elizabeth's sons were is the Army of
Tennessee. After the war, sons Henry Valentine Prater and Thomas Dillard Prater
moved to Missouri near their mother's sister Sarah (Warren) Barnhart - 16 Nov.
1833 – 4 Mar. 1895. William remained in
Tennessee. Sometime after 1870, son Thomas Dillard Prater and his family moved
from Missouri to Oklahoma.
Sometime before 1900, Elizabeth Ann (Warren)
Prater came to Missouri to live in her son Napoleon Prater's home. She is
listed in the 1900 Maries Co, Mo. Boone Township Census living in Napoleon
Prater's home. (See 1900 Maries-10A, Boone Township, dwelling 211.) She came to
Maries County, Missouri where her brother Henry V. Warren, Jr. And her sons
Henry V. Prater and Napoleon Prater all lived. Her Sister Sarah Elizabeth
(Warren) Barnhart had died in 1895.
The story is handed down from, Leonard Prater,
that her son Henry Valentine Prater took his mother Elizabeth Ann (Warren)
Prater to the train station near Dixon MO in about 1902 or 1903 where she rode
a train to Oklahoma to visit her children in Oklahoma. Her son Samuel B. Prater
was living in Chelsea, Oklahoma. The children of her deceased daughter Sarah
(Prater) Youngblood and the children of her deceased son Thomas Dillard Prater
also had families in Northeastern Oklahoma.
She travelled from near Dixon, Missouri to
Vinita, Oklahoma by rail and reportedly went to the home of Samuel Prater in
Chelsea, Oklahoma. The story is handed down by Nelson Prater, son of Samuel Prater
that Elizabeth Ann suffered a stroke and lay in a coma for several weeks. She
died in the home of Nelson's dad, Samuel B. Prater. Nelson Prater and Velma
(Youngblood) Klamm, granddaughter of Sarah (Prater) Youngblood, confirms that
Elizabeth Ann (Warren) Prater rests in the West Adair Cemetery in Adair,
Oklahoma. She rests near her grandsons Frank and Samuel Youngblood and other
family
members.