Hi, There is a Friendship Baptist Church cemetery in Pierce City. According to Lawrence County, Missouri, Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 9, Pierce City and Western Pierce Township, p. 92, part of this site was made into a parking lot. The only tombstone inscriptions reported there are two Higgs stones. There are a only a few Thorntons listed in the indexes to all nine volumes of Lawrence County Tombstone Inscriptions, but there is no Henry Thornton. I also did not find him in the 1900 Lawrence County census, though there was one Thornton family and a James Thornton boarding in another dwelling. Is it possible that Henry Thornton was buried in a cemetery near Lawrence County but not in Lawrence County? Ross Cameron >>> [email protected] 04/24/03 02:20PM >>> I did find the cemetary but I think it is the wrong one. I may need Friendship instead. Henry Thornton died June 1902. Thanks for your help. Hi, You may have already found the cemetery and checked the tombstone inscriptions. >From Lockwood, go south on Hwy. 97. Cross Hwy. 96 (old Route 66). Go 1 mile, turn right onto farm road 2070. Go about 1 mile and the cemetery is on the left side of the road near the intersection with farm road 1050. There are several Thomases buried there, but I do not know if it was ever called Thomas Cemetery. Many of the cemeteries in Lawrence County have been known by more than one name. Sometimes, a family started a cemetery and then it was deeded to a church or cemetery association. There are four pages of inscriptions on pages 24-27 of Lawrence County, Missouri, Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. VII, Vineyard and Mt. Pleasant Townships. What person are you searching for that died about 1902? Ross Cameron --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== Whoops! Deleted a message you needed? Search archived messages on this list by entering MOLAWREN-L in the search field at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237