All of you Joeseph and Elizabeth Rooks who came to Grundy i abt 1838 , lived and died as did many of their 15 ch and families and thewir descendants. Severla Rooks ch and or descendnats of them were mar to ch and descend, of the JOHN SCOTT who was a pioneer there. So lets all see what we can do to help raise fiunds for preserving this Cemetery which boasts of some of our ancestors. Maxine Wilton. Descen of Wm "Billie" Rooks and Mahala Smithson and dau Millie Maxine Rooks who died in Colfax, Whitman Co Wa in 30 Oct 1925 at age 79 yrs and some days haveing been b 6/7 Oct 1846 Grundy Co Mo. Mahala , her mother also died there abt 1855 to 1859 Marion TWP. Maxine Wilton in Roy Wa. mmwaw@sprynet.com -----Original Message----- From: Charles Crow <chuck@annsmith.com> To: MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com <MOGRUNDY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: [MOGRUNDY-L] old city cem >if the old city cem is the one that is listed in the cemetery list, then >there are several people burried there that had significant input into >trenton, mo...james r. merrill donated quite a large amount of land for >trenton...he was a judge and one of the earliest settlers of the county...i >dont believe that the folks that are burried there were passers by and died >on the trail... > >----- >the following was copied from the opening paragraph of the grundy county web >site... >Before white men settled in Grundy County, it was occupied as a hunting >ground by tribes of Sac, Sioux, and Pottawottomie Indians. No obtainable >record or tradition exists of a permanent settlement being made until 1833, >when General W. P. THOMPSON settled near the Grand River. Among the first >settlers in the vicinity of the present site of Trenton were: James R. >MERRILL, Samuel BENSON, John THRAILKILL, Levi MOORE, William COCHRAN, Jewitt >NORRIS, John SCOTT, and Daniel DeVAUL, plus the PERRY, GRUBB, and METCALF >families. > >the following was taken form the top of the cem listing on the grundy web >site... >This cemetery is regarded as Trenton´s first burial place and was the only >public cemetery in the area prior to 1870. It holds numerous Grundy County >pioneers and Civil War veterans, although many old records of the graves are >lost. An Association was formed in 1924 to preserve and maintain the >cemetery, and there were few available lots after 1934. It is located at the >south end of Ridgeway Street at the old entrance of the Riverside Country >Club. > >Old City was catalogued in 1955 by the following members of the Methodist >Church M.Y.F.: Joe Seymour, Dennie Irwin, Linda Chapin, Chester Hatfield, >Raymond Adams, James Coffman, Pattie Nichals, Mary Lou Hill, Sandra >Skidmore, Mary Ann Laffoon and Barbara Kemptan. Additional names and >notations have since been added, so please be aware of possible errors. > >------- > >i, for one, would be willing to contribute to a fund to maintain this >historical area...it may even qualify for some kind of historical >preservation grants...since james r merrill gave the land to the city, maybe >the city could chip in to save the memories of one of its founding >fathers... > >keep me posted on the subject... > >thanks > >chuck crow > > >