I have a map of Newton Co., Cemeteries. It shows 95 cemeteries but I know that not every cemeterie is on the map. Around Ritchey, Mo. it shows Van Buren Union Cem., Nimmo Cem., Wormington Cem., Pybern Cem., Boaz Cem., Cook Cem., Berwick Cem., Roseborough Cem., and Clear Creek Cem. I know a lot of Ritchey's people are buried at Newtonia, Mo. in Newton Co. They are Newtonia 100F Cem. on Hwy. V, ( If you go there watch out, believe it or not we were there a year ago Feb. and there was still snow on the ground and it was bitterly cold and we got into a nest of copper heads. They were sunning and they were trying to bite)., Old Civil War Cem.,and the Newtonia Cem. Fred D. Edens Pat Short wrote: > 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/