doniphan is in Ripley county I believe, near the Ar/Mo state line -----Original Message----- From: Pat Short <pashort@rectec.net> To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Ritchey MO abandoned Cemetery and Humpherys , Blackfox Van buren Cemetery >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 > > >==== 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/ >

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