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/ >