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.