Jim, Per the 'Howard County Cemetery Records' by Karen Boggs and Louis Coutts the Hackley Cemetery is "off Highway 5 on Howard County Road 210". They show T 51 R 16 S 20, but I am not sure if that helps or not. I sure wouldn't help me. Ms. Cecil V. Boyd P.S. I have a very distant connection to Rhoda M. Snavely, via her husband William B. Burnam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim-Ed Sappington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:18 AM Subject: [MO-CEM] Hackley Cementary > Can someone tell me where Hackley Cementary is located at in Howard > County, Missouri. I am looking for Elizabeth Jane Burnett who passed on > March 18, 1856 and Juda Frances Williams who passed on March 28, 1896. > Husband to both these women, Ephraim Snavely who passed on July 9, 1896. > Thanks Jim > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen > Burnett [email protected] > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

Last week I went with the land owner to try and find where my family cemetery might be. It was disappointing in that there was absolutely no area that wasn't being used as pasture and no signs of stones anywhere. It appears that the cemetery has been buried/bulldozed/trampled by cows a long time ago. We don't have an exact location, just the deed stating the general section quarter. The land owner couldn't have been more gracious and helpful. His wife and the person who rents the land came too. We walked all over and the land owner tried to dredge up memories of working there with his father as a child and young man in case he could remember any clues. I also went to the courthouse, but didn't find anything except the same vague description of the location. Is there anything else to be done? I guess there could be stones buried although and some might have readable fragments. We did find the approximate site of the house based on the 1876 plat map and a grove of trees. This is in Monroe County. Ginny Durham, NC

Give me a break!! Someone suggested having a dowser go over the area and search for graves. I am a dowser, but it's nerve wracking enough to have someone, who is sure you can find exactly what you're hoping to find in a defined area. One has to walk slowly over any given plot of ground. Generally, the acreage will be in 40 acre plots and that would take forever and you could still miss finding the graves as some will be children and some adults and unless you're looking for the upper part of a body, you can miss any children. Also, the dowser must be able to tell if there is a male or female under the ground and some can find the buried objects, which can be big rocks, tree limbs, fence posts, etc. as well as graves, but won't have a clue if it's a human remains, a rock, etc. unless it is in a fairly well defined area of search. About a year ago, I was asked to go to a cemetery and witch for 13 burials in an unmarked area. I found all of them, determined the sex and the approximate height of each person. From my findings, the man was able to identify almost all his relatives as he knew the names, sex and age they died. He was absolutely delighted to be able to determine almost all the persons by the descriptions I was able to give him. I'm sorry to be such a "wet blanket" about dowsing for graves in a large area, but I know how hard it would be to find graves in a 40-acre plot of ground. The best of dowsers could miss them in that large a plot of ground. When I reread this, I realized a whole quarter section is being considered and that is 160 acres!! Jennie > Last week I went with the land owner to try and find where my family cemetery might be. It was disappointing in that there was absolutely no area that wasn't being used as pasture and no signs of stones anywhere. It appears that the cemetery has been buried/bulldozed/trampled by cows a long time ago. We don't have an exact location, just the deed stating the general section quarter.<