Transcription about Circleville Cemetery from "Monumental Inscriptions from Jackson County, Kansas Cemeteries": Circleville Cemetery is located in Jefferson Township, 1 mile west of the east end of Circleville, then 1/2 miles south, in SW 1/4 NW 1/4, S28, T6S, R14E. The Jackson County Numerical Index indicates this tract of land was purchased by patent from the U.S. Government by N.C. Boydston. There is no record of transfer of the land to the Circleville Cemetery Association. In deed book 83, p. 266, we find: On 11December 1925, the Circleville Cemetery Association, ... transferred ... for $1, a tract of land described as follows: Commencing at a point 20 rods and 11 links North of SW corner of NW 1/2, 28-6-14, thence East 768 feet, thence North 325 1/2 feet, thence West 769 1/2 feet, thense south 329 feet to place of beginning, containing 5.77 acres. more or less. The Lots are not laid out in a uniform manner and are ot consistent in size. A register of interments has been maintained since 1925, and there is also a list of lot owners and an alphabetical listing, by surname, of burials, but this is by no means complete. The interment register and associated books, in the capable hands of doris Jane Rash, were consulted, and checked against the graveston data. In the following list an (*) indicates a burial for which there is no stone; (**) denotes a burial since the stones were copied on 4 and 6 August 1977. Dates with ("") are from the interment registers. The earlies marked grave is that of Eliza Jane Brown (1856). In a piece in the Holton Recorder, Thurs., March, 1935, by Mrs. Arthur G. Hurst, entitled "Early Cemetery is South of Circleville," we learn" "The first death in the community was a Mrs. Brown, who lived on the place now occupied by Tim Cole. Saunders McComas picked out the cemetery and his brother-in-law , Nat Boydston, gave the land. Mr. McComas' first wife's grave was washed away in Missouri, hence I suppose he chose one hill overlooking what is now Circleville, and how appropriate it is." This is the end of the quote from the book. I visited the cemetery the fall of 1999 and found my relatives (McComas and Abel families - 1872 deaths and forward). I saw the book and made copies of the entries that I have at the Jackson County Historical Society in Holton, Kansas. Hope this is of help. Arlene in Milwaukee