This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hovis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/2452.1 Message Board Post: A bit more info: My Great-Great Grandfather, Seth Hovis (misspelled on Death Certificate) was buried there by an undertaker named Barham from Kinnett on October 14, 1927. Seth Hovers October 14, 1927 Dunklin 29979 There is an image available at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/results.asp?type=basic&tLName=hovers&tFName=seth&sCounty=Dunklin&tYear=1927#null What gives it away (besides being born in 1851) is his occupation, "Basketmaker" (family trade). He died of malaria at the Dunklin County Poor Farm and is buried there (near Independence Missouri). I am also looking for O.B. Barham in the 1920-1930 census (County Farm, Independence Township, Dunklin County, North Kennett). The death certificate lists him as not only the undertaker, he is listed as employer. You find him, you are likely to find the county farm as well as cemetery where Seth is buried. I am looking for cemetery records transcriptions, photographs or other information regarding Dunklin County Poor Farm, Independence Township near Kennett, Missouri. The poor farm is listed in the 1930 census....but don't yet have access to census images for 1900-1920 to find out how long he was in the area. 1920 census....would be this one: District 77 Independence township (part of), including Co. Poor Farm excluding Kennett city. All north of line between Ts. 18 & 19. I found an image online of Plats for Independence Township in Dunklin County...it lists "County Farm". It also lists a school (Gregory) and a cemetery below (Gregory cemetery). http://www.looktothepast.com/countylinks.html#dunklin A relative had a postcard that Seth had sent in 1919 while teaching and the "County Farm" appears next to a school. I then found the name of the school and am looking for the history on the school and if he had taught there. It looks like there's only farmhouses, but is too hard to tell in modern aerial photos. The cemetery I see on the topographic map is Gregory. It looks like the County farm used to be just north of there. Is there a Poor Farm cemetery just above this one? If you get to the sattelite image, I compared it to the plat map. I'm still trying to determine if the school still exists. http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=121358 Here's the link....scroll down to Gregory school/Gregory cemetery. http://www.topozone.com/states/Missouri.asp?county=Dunklin I just found this I found on a GENFORUM message board: "Gregory seems to be a cemetery for poor people. The grave sites were free. Not a lot of markers out there. My father was buried thru Lentz funeral home and they said people could just go out there and pick a spot. I don't think there are records of where anyone is buried. They didn't have for my father. They did let me look at their book for 1947. Bur all it showed was that my father was buried there and who gave them the information. There are some grave markers. It is north of Kennett." Are locations of interments without markers recorded in the county? Are there any records of the poor farm besides the plat maps I found? Are there records of the school to find out if my ancestor taught there? I can only track him up to in Indiana up to 1893, and only recently discovered the death certificate in Missouri. I haven't determined how long he was in Dunklin County, but just have the word-of-mouth about the postcard in 1919.