I do not know where the Doniphan are is ?? It is close to Nesho , Wentworth, Grandby, Tell me where Doniphan is. Pat ---------- > From: Doris Barnes <dorisb@primary.net> > To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery > Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:14 PM > > That cemetery isn't in the Doniphan area, is it? > > > > > > >I found a Cemetery this years in Ritchey Mo. I was look for the Humpherys > >Cemetery in Ritchey MO. > >where my Mauller were suppose to be buried. I was told Humphreys cem.is > >over by Wentworth MO, it is called Blackfox by the old timers or Van buren > >by > >the younger generation. Never found my Maullers, graves, why do they > >change cemeteries name ? They should not be able to. My Maullers died in > >1925 and 1930. there Obit says Humpherys Cemetery. > > > > > >On or way to find Humpherys Cemetery an Older lady told us of a cemetery in > >the woods my the Holiness Church in Ritchey, and pointed to the woods. So > >we went beside the Church. Across the way were 3 men , so we ask them about > >the cemetery. They had no idea what it was called, they said it had been > >abandoned for years, and that it was so old that no one visited it, and as > >far as they could remember. They said they played in it as children, we ask > >if we could go up in there, they said you cant find anything but a few > >stones because the brush and trees covered them, and most were on the > >ground. It was quite scary in there just me and my husband. We were a > >little frightened of the men, they looked like red necks, and they were > >drinking. We remembered that the Little old lady told of one of the men > >telling her he dug into one of the graves and found nothing. > > > >We continued to dig with our hands and found some tombstones, some you > >could not read and some > >we could, they were all over 100 years old laying on the ground, it made > >us sick. We found one Dunne and another that said Moller pretty close to > >Mauller. but > >my husband said we had better get out of there, he was spooked by the men > >near by and us all alone in the woods. The people at the stores in Ritchey > >do not want to talk about this cemetery for some reason and put you off > >about it. One man has a website about Ritchey and talk about playing in the > >cemetery and he says no one knew the name of it then either. I would like > >to know the mystery of this cemetery, and why has it been abandoned > >Below is the Url of The Ritchey Web site > >http://www.vvm.com/~ritterh/ > >This is the sit about Ritchey MO > >It has a picture of the Holiness Church and the Cemetery is in the woods > >beside it, the men say the cemetery was a little longer than the church and > >a little wider. Some say the Church ownes it. It was over a year ago when > >we were there. > > > >I can not get my husband or anyone else to go back with me and look, I > >talked to someone else who was looking for there family in Ritchey and they > >had the same experience with people in Ritchey. They told me they now have > >a new fence put up. I guess after I raised some interest in it they decided > >to fence people out. They must want to sell the land and not let anyone > >know there is a Cemetery there. They do not want people to know. I wish > >someone could find info. about this place. I wonder if that Moller was my > >Mauller, Now I will never know. > > > >Thanks for listing > >Pat Short > > > > > >==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > >If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Missouri Cemetery list, > use > >MO-CEMETERIES-l-request@rootsweb.com or > MO-CEMETERIES-d-request@rootsweb.com if > >you are on the Digest list. > >To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > >Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > > >============================== > >Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html