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

If you'd still like to go, I'd be willing to go with you! I love rootin through old cemeteries, and I don't live too far away, I'm in Webb City. Renessa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Short" <pashort@rectec.net> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery > 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/ >

Renessa: Good for you. Here is my email address. bquinn@dialnet.net. Let me know what you find. ----- Original Message ----- From: Renessa Lewis To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery If you'd still like to go, I'd be willing to go with you! I love rootin through old cemeteries, and I don't live too far away, I'm in Webb City. Renessa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Short" <pashort@rectec.net> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery > 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 ==== 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 ============================== 9 Health Tips for Computer Genealogists http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/ouch/

First of all you are in Newton County, well known for unusual characters who tend to be inhospitable. All you normal folks in Newton county don't need to email me. Let me ask a couple of questions and give you some suggestions. Is the nearby church active? If so, find out how to contact the churches minister. If he has been there any time he will have heard story or rumors. Next, try a nearby senior center. Granby should have a senior center. You could contact the Area Agency on Aging housed in Joplin to get location and times. Most of these area agencies are online. Best time to go is lunch time. Old-timers love to talk. See if you see a nearby nursing home. Write to the activity director and ask her to put your question in the residents monthly newsletter to see if any resident would talk to you. Were you able to get any dates with names from the stones to check obits. This is and was mining country. The close by town of Granby might have had a weekly newspaper at the turn of the last century. Don't forget to check in Neosho. Look at old abstracts to see who owned property contiguous with the church. Someone at the courthouse can tell you the names and probably the # of area geneoligist who may know details or might even go with you and others to make up a larger group. If you are really scared go by the sheriffs office, tell him/her your concern and let them know when you're going and expect to be back. Also take your cell phone and find out to contact the dispatcher. Go with tools and work fast. Take a camera too. Also, while you are at the sheriffs find out if crime records that far back are archived somewhere. Remember also that that area had numerous small civil war skirmishes. Neighbors were divided often fighting against each other for years after the end of the war. A final warning:the Ozarks is well known for it hills and hollers that hide many things. Use to be stills but now its meth labs and marijuana patches not to mention hate groups compounds so start with the easiest methods first. I am curious, who is the webmaster for the richey site? Have you contacted that person? ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Short To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery 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. 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I'm from Newton Co., Mo. and sister your right. My wife and I were taking data from a cemeterie in Ritchey, Mo. So I thought that I would be nice and ask the land owner if we get come on her property to take the data. Well as I was walking up to her door. The door swung open and there was a large lady standing in the door way, STARK NAKED!!! She just stood there well I was between the car and her front porch. I looked at my wife and shrudded my shoulders, wondering what on earth to do. My wife jumped over the wind shield to block our children's view. She stood there for what seemed to be 3 or 4 minutes. She finally shut the door and put some clothes on. She let us go through the cemeterie on her land. But I just couldn't look her in the face when talking to her. Oh yes there is a nursing home in our home town of Granby. It's called Granby House. It's on S. Main in Granby, where the old Granby School use to stand. Fred D. Edens Becky Quinn wrote: > First of all you are in Newton County, well known for unusual characters who tend to be inhospitable. All you normal folks in Newton county don't need to email me. Let me ask a couple of questions and give you some suggestions. Is the nearby church active? If so, find out how to contact the churches minister. If he has been there any time he will have heard story or rumors. Next, try a nearby senior center. Granby should have a senior center. You could contact the Area Agency on Aging housed in Joplin to get location and times. Most of these area agencies are online. Best time to go is lunch time. Old-timers love to talk. See if you see a nearby nursing home. Write to the activity director and ask her to put your question in the residents monthly newsletter to see if any resident would talk to you. Were you able to get any dates with names from the stones to check obits. This is and was mining country. The close by town of Granby might have had a weekly newspaper ! > at the turn of the last century. > > Don't forget to check in Neosho. Look at old abstracts to see who owned property contiguous with the church. Someone at the courthouse can tell you the names and probably the # of area geneoligist who may know details or might even go with you and others to make up a larger group. If you are really scared go by the sheriffs office, tell him/her your concern and let them know when you're going and expect to be back. Also take your cell phone and find out to contact the dispatcher. Go with tools and work fast. Take a camera too. Also, while you are at the sheriffs find out if crime records that far back are archived somewhere. > > Remember also that that area had numerous small civil war skirmishes. Neighbors were divided often fighting against each other for years after the end of the war. > > A final warning:the Ozarks is well known for it hills and hollers that hide many things. Use to be stills but now its meth labs and marijuana patches not to mention hate groups compounds so start with the easiest methods first. > > I am curious, who is the webmaster for the richey site? Have you contacted that person? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pat Short > To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:35 AM > Subject: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery > > 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 ==== > List problems? 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