This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: marchouseman Surnames: Price, Allen, Wornall, Lykins Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.jackson/6229/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Claims an Old Cemetery Miss Mira price, a school teacher of Westport, MO, fences in a graveyard. Kansas City, MO: Miss Mira Price, a teacher in the Benton school, through her attorney has had a fence built around a little cemetery in Westport. Miss Price has had a notice posted in front of the ground warning trespassers to keep away, and has notified the city and county assessors that she is the owner of the plot where so many of Westport's early settlers were buried, and that she is ready to pay taxes thereon. Miss Price is one of the children of Edmund Price, long since dead, who bought the ground of which she has now taken possession from Johnston Lykins, in 1846. the cemetery is 224 by 120 feet in size, and according to the records, it became a burying ground merely by consent of Mr. Price, who, however, did not give the city a deed for it. A. M. Allen, one of Kansas City's pioneers, says the last burial took place there in 1860, but before that time it had become so crowded that some bodies were interred beyond the limits, members of T. J. Wornall's family bein! g among the number. The cemetery has been neglected for many years. The tombstones have become decayed and broken, and the whole place presents such a scene of disorder that the Price heirs decided to take charge of it. There are several children, but all have deeded their interests to Miss Mira Price, the school teacher. Miss Price bases her claim to the ground on the decision in the Shelley park case, wherein the court found that a cemetery no longer used a such might revert to the original owners. February 24, 1905. This story was carried by a newspaper in Franklin County, Missouri, the 'Sullivan Sentinal'. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.