Anyone know who to contact in Mercer Co, Mo about land ownership and how to clean up an abandoned cemetery?  Yesterday my dad and I were going to the Eastin Cemetery about 2 miles south of Pleasanton.  The road back to the cemtery has fallen from a "B Maintained" Road to a farmer's field road.  It was not this bad just a few years ago.  :(    I'm sure Mercer County has written this off as an abandoned cemetery since the last buried would have been in the 30's or 40's, but we would like to try to clean it up as my great, great grandparents & ggg grandparents plus 5 of my great aunts/uncles are buried there.    We also looked for any remainders of the town of Saline, MO.  Nothing is there anymore along the paved road to Cainsville, MO.     Thanks in advance!   ~Tracie   TRACIE McBROOM Newton, IA    --- On Mon, 5/31/10, Stacy Smith <slsmith@grm.net> wrote: From: Stacy Smith <slsmith@grm.net> Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Off Topic? To: iadecatu@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 6:54 AM I wanna also say that alot of my family lived on the land surrounding Payne cemetery. And if you look at census informatino, if you didn't know any better, you'd think they moved back and forth and back and forth from Iowa to Missouri...but the Iowa/Missouri line changed all the time back then and they really just stayed put. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations > of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail > me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County > & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking > at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Tracie, You might try Keith or Victor Seymour as to the land ownership - they own north and south of there and I think they would know, if they don't own it themselves. They are in the Mercer or Princeton or Cainsville phone book, not sure which one. You may be able to Google their phone numbers or use White Pages online. As to Saline, the remants are certainly still there. If you go south on Mercer Co. B highway out of Pleasanton, past the Freedom Cemetery (church used to be there but burned down) (P highway goes left/east there) there is another road about 3/4 to 1 mile south from there, should be marked as T highway, and turn right on that. Go past the old Center schoolhouse on the right, down the hill and the road turns left - you will be in Saline. There should still be several old buildings and houses along the road and up the hill to the east. Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trace McB" <cy_hick@yahoo.com> To: <iadecatu@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Off Topic? Anyone know who to contact in Mercer Co, Mo about land ownership and how to clean up an abandoned cemetery? Yesterday my dad and I were going to the Eastin Cemetery about 2 miles south of Pleasanton. The road back to the cemtery has fallen from a "B Maintained" Road to a farmer's field road. It was not this bad just a few years ago. :( I'm sure Mercer County has written this off as an abandoned cemetery since the last buried would have been in the 30's or 40's, but we would like to try to clean it up as my great, great grandparents & ggg grandparents plus 5 of my great aunts/uncles are buried there. We also looked for any remainders of the town of Saline, MO. Nothing is there anymore along the paved road to Cainsville, MO. Thanks in advance! ~Tracie TRACIE McBROOM Newton, IA --- On Mon, 5/31/10, Stacy Smith <slsmith@grm.net> wrote: From: Stacy Smith <slsmith@grm.net> Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Off Topic? To: iadecatu@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 6:54 AM I wanna also say that alot of my family lived on the land surrounding Payne cemetery. And if you look at census informatino, if you didn't know any better, you'd think they moved back and forth and back and forth from Iowa to Missouri...but the Iowa/Missouri line changed all the time back then and they really just stayed put. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations > of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail > me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County > & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking > at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message