Kathy. Your point about the name Mt. Pleasant as a plentiful one when we look at churches and cemeteries is well-taken. I have not studied the county histories recently for the dates of establishment of the various Mt Pleasant churches and cemeteries. There are Mt. Pleasant churches in each county here in central MO. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery just north of New Franklin @ where the town of Estill was and where a church (Christian Discples of Christ, denomination, (?)) also was located, is a large, well-kept cemetery whose listing begins on page 357 in Mrs. Coutts & Mrs. Boggs cemetery book, pub 1994. I believe there are still gravesites to be had in this Mt. Pleasant cemetery (I see a listing for 1989) altho it originated as a "rural church cemetery" it is now close to the city limits of New Franklin and without its "mother church" you are correct in thinking I may be confusing our readers in describing it as a "rural church cemetery!" (There is no longer a Mt. Pleasant Church at that location) Laura Crane, Columbia. -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Bowlin <kjbowlin@earthlink.net> To: laura crane <lcrane@coin.org> Date: Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] Re:pre 1850 gravestones >I am a little confused? According to the Coutts and Boggs cemetery book, there is a Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and a Mt. Pleasant Church >Cemetery. The Mt. Pleasant Church cemetery is just south of the Randolph county line in northeast Howard if I am remembering >correctly. That is the Bonne Femme twp area. > >The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, is on route 5 in the area that Anne was describing, and that is where the Lloyds and Rays are buried. >According to the number of burials, this isn't a small cemetery. Are both of these cemeteries the Mt. Pleasant CHURCH Cemeteries? > >Kathy Bowlin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "laura crane" <lcrane@coin.org> >To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:27 AM >Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Re:pre 1850 gravestones > > >> Anne, Gravestones in central Missouri's rural church cemeteries previous to >> 1850 >> are rare. The 1840 death date for your John Sterne would >> make his gravestone a real find in a rural church cemetery in Howard >> or Boone County. 1840 may pre-date the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery >> by 15 years (?) My Lloyds and Rays were interred therein at around >> 1867 which would be early for the Mt. Pleasant Church and its >> cemetery. I did check the >> index to the Coutts/Boggs "Howard County Mo cemetery records and both >> the Sternes listed are @ Washington Cemetery. Laura Crane, president, >> Genealogy Society, Central MO. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Annerupert@aol.com <Annerupert@aol.com> >> To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:53 PM >> Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Howard Co & South Howard Co >> >> >> >Just returned home from a very brief visit to Glasgow Missouri, and had a >> >nice cup of coffee at the soda counter of "Henderson's Rexall Drug Store". >> >Chatted a bit, then visited the Washington Cemetery in the town. >> > >> >As I left Glasgow travelling south and heading towards Fayette on Route 5 >> (I >> >think), I passed a cemetery called Mount Pleasant est 1832. A road sign >> said >> >I was in South Howard County. (I did not know there was a Howard County >> and >> >a South Howard County). >> > >> >This Mt Pleasant Cemetery interested me as I had per an obituary an >> ancestor >> >living in Howard County named John STERNE who died in Mt Pleasant 1840. I >> >drove through the cemetery, however did not see any old stones or related >> names. >> > >> >If someone could reference a burial in this cemetery for John Sterne d >> 1840, >> >I would be grateful. He was the father of a John Y STERNE buried in >> >Washington Cemetery. >> >Thanks in advance >> >Anne >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >