According to my grandfather, the poor farm he remembers was north and east of them a few miles (he mentioned 2-3 miles). He was pretty young at the time, but remembers it was a good sized house facing south. He lived a couple of miles east out of Essex, at the crossroad called Crutchers Corner where the old Hawley School stood. ---------- >From: MO-CEMETERIES-D-request@rootsweb.com >To: MO-CEMETERIES-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest V01 #123 >Date: Thu, May 3, 2001, 6:00 PM > >Content-Type: text/plain > >MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 123 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [MO-CEM] Clement & Selma Undertake ["Joyce Allee" <jallee@tyler.net>] > #2 [MO-CEM] Re: MO-CEMETERIES-D Diges [Mike Flannigan <mikeflan@swbell.ne] > #3 [MO-CEM] Re: Poor House Cemeteries [Mike Flannigan <mikeflan@swbell.ne] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from MO-CEMETERIES-D, send a message to > > MO-CEMETERIES-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. 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The Schnur >Funeral Home was very kind and went to a great deal of trouble. > Again, my graditude to you Bill, for always being there with great >information, help and kindness. > >Thank you!! > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:26:01 -0500 >From: Mike Flannigan <mikeflan@swbell.net> >To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-id: <3AF194A9.1BA6C174@swbell.net> >Subject: [MO-CEM] Re: MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest V01 #94 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >We have tried to locate that Poor Farm. It is reported to be in >Sec. 26, T. 26N, R. 10E just S of Bloomfield, so we are guessing >that it is near ~365156N0895552W. > > >Mike Flannigan > > >> Subject: [MO-CEM] Re: MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest V01 #94 >> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 07:23:32 -0500 >> From: "Rick Huff" <rvhuff1@midwest.net> >> To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com >> >> I don't know if there has been any discussion on Stoddard County Poor Farms, >> but my grandfather who was raised a couple of miles east of Essex says there >> was a poor farm a couple of miles north and east of where he lived at >> Crutcher Crossing near Hawley School, and near Old Broadwater Slew. >> >> When a fellow named Tom Haley or Tom Hailey got behind on his bills they >> would send him to the poor farm, but he didn't always stay. He says a lot >> of them walked away from the poor farm, but they didn't really care. >> >> He also tells of a hail storm so bad that it killed all their sows and baby >> pigs except one who had made a nest in a hollow log. That would have been >> somewhere between 1910 and 1917. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:25:47 -0500 >From: Mike Flannigan <mikeflan@swbell.net> >To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-id: <3AF1949B.78C26049@swbell.net> >Subject: [MO-CEM] Re: Poor House Cemeteries >Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >Do you have a better description, like which side of town it's on? >Does Alley Cemetery ring a bell? > > >Mike Flannigan > > > >> Subject: re: Poor House Cemeteries >> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 05:59:08 -0500 >> From: "Jennie Vertrees" <backwood@grm.net> >> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-D@Rootsweb.com> >> CC: "Jennie Vertrees" <backwood@grm.net> >> >> My home county, Mercer County, MO, had its first poor farm just outside >of Mercer, MO, and there was a cemetery attached to it. The graves were >marked with large, square-cut pieces of limestone, but these contained no >information about the persons, whose graves they marked. Sometime, about >1900, the poor farm was moved to Princeton, MO, and most of the residents >were then buried in the Princeton Cemetery. I do not know if there were >markers for them. I haven't checked to see. Some were buried in family >plots in other cemeteries in the county. When I was a little child, a man, >who had lived with my grandparents, had to be sent to the poor farm, when >he became ill, and he is buried on their plot in the Coon Cemetery and has >a granite monument, which was set by the family. >> >> Jennie Vertrees backwood@grm.net >> >> The only records available for the Mercer County homes are contained in >records in the office of the County clerk. At times, a death, birth, etc. >would appear in the newspaper. Yes, there were occasional births at the poor farm. >