This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: smacormic Surnames: Clifty Cemetery Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.maries/2290/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have found out recently I have relatives in a Clify cemetery. Can anyone tell me where this cem. is. Directions would be great. Thanks Sharon 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.

Sharon: The Clifty Cemetery can be reached either from Vienna or Dixon by following Missouri Hwy 28 to Missouri Highway "W" and turn east (left if from Vienna, right if from Dixon). Follow Highway "W" about 2 3/4 miles to County Road 501 and turn right, the cemetery will be on your right about 1/10 mile from "W". The following is a quote from "The Cemeteries of Maries County, MO", 1986, by Mozelle Hutchison and Gail Howard: "This area is called Clifty Dale. Nearby is the Clifty Hollow Natural Bridge, one of the most popular in Missouri for photographers, even though it requires a mile walk to reach it. The term "clifty" exemplifies a preservation of archaic English. Walker's 1823 dictionary lists clift as a synonym for cliff, but by 1864, Webster considered clift obsolete. (This and more about Clifty Hollow Natural Bridge in "Geological Wonders and Curosities of Missouri" by Thomas R. Beveridge. He quotes Broadhead (1871, p.16) in one of the early reports of the Missouri Geological Survey, who described it from field work done in 1857 and regarding its setting said: "A perfectly clear stream of water courses through this valley. The bottoms near are overspread with a dense growth of trees and vines, among which I notices the Muscadine grape. The valley at this point, being shut in by its perpendicular cliffs, with not a path to guide the traveler through the dense thickets, is wildly picturesque and romantic in its loneliness." I grew up in Maries County and obsolete or not we used clift and cliff interchangably in daily conversation. Good hunting. Bill Schwegler www.schwegler.us Gasconade Valley Cousins --- "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: smacormic > Surnames: Clifty Cemetery > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.maries/2290/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I have found out recently I have relatives in a Clify cemetery. Can > anyone tell me where this cem. is. Directions would be great. > Thanks > Sharon > > 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. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > William L. (Bill) Schwegler Bossier City, Louisiana [email protected] [email protected] http://www.schwegler.us Preacher, Bible Teacher, Available for Appointments http://www.schwegler.us/gvcousins.html Gasconade Valley Cousins: Osage and Maries County, Missouri History, surnames: Schwegler, Clark, Poe, Shanks, Ridenhour, Backues, Rand __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com