Union Electric did move graves for the Lake of the Ozark project and there is a list of graves moved, but it is incomplete. Supposedly part of the list was lost somewhere in Union Electric's papers is the story I have found over the years. I, too, keep hoping that a complete list will be found at some time. I would suspect there are a lot of people in the lake swimming with the fishes if they were buried on family farms and the graves were not marked of course. And even unknowns from the cemeteries as well if there were no markers for them. I am looking for the burial of my husband's 2nd gr-grandfather, Abraham Bowers, who died in 1881. Several of his children and wife are buried in Ritchie Cemetery, but nothing is noted in the cemetery for him; however there appears to be an extra gravesite there, so who knows if he is there unmarked, somewhere else unmarked and unknown or swimming with the fish in the Lake of the Ozarks. He passed away in Eureka Springs, Ark., but there are no burial records for him there and the funeral home said they had train service north at that time and most likely he would have been shipped north. They lived in the Proctor area and I am told the farm is under water, but I do not know this for sure. There were a lot more graves moved in the process of building the Lake of the Ozarks than what the list in Jeff City shows, so where is the rest of the list? Hopefully someday it will turn up. If anyone has anything on Abraham Bowers or knows of the whereabouts of the Ritchie Church Records from years ago, please let me know. Perhaps the early church records would have something about his burial. Lee Ripp. Several people wrote: > Again, there was a company that moved most of the > cemeteries. My grandfather > Emory A. Paul worked on those crews and he told us stories > about the > experience years later. They kept records of the caskets > by numbers but from what > I've heard most of the records were lost. I keep hoping > they will turn up in > someone's attic or basement someday. For now the best > records for Morgan County > The only Britt surnames that > are in the list provided by the archives are > BRITT, Courtney moved from Shockley cemetery grave # 77 to > New Clark > cemetery grave #1663 > BRITT, Susan moved from Shockley cemetery grave #93 to New > Clark cemetery > grave #1664 > I'm not sure without further research, but I think the New > Clark cemetery is > in Camden county. A lot of people moved to Morgan county > when the lake was > filled as their farms and homes were flooded. > This is my introduction from my webpage: > Identified Graves Moved From Inundated Cemeteries > > Osage Project Reservoir > Union Electrid Light & Power Co. > Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. Agents > Bagnell, MO Sept. 17, > 1931 > > The Bagnell Dam project was studied as early as 1912, a > preliminary > permit was issued by the Federal Power Commision on > November 12, 1924. In > 1927 Stone & Webster Inc., a Boston engineering firm, > assumed the task of > giving the project life. On July 27, 1929, Union Electric > Light and Power > Company of St. Louis acquired the properties and rights of > Missouri > Hydro-Electric Power Company which caused the Great Osage > Project to begin > its road to reality. This was about 17 years after the > project was first > studied. > The Osage River was inpounded and the lake began to > fill on February 2, > 1931. The lake was open to travel on May 30, 1931. Many > changes took place > during these years and whole towns were torn down and > moved and families > were removed from the farms in the fertile river bottom > they had grown to > love. There are many stories of hatred of Union Electric > Co. and the lake > told my the old timers that can remember the area the way > it was before the > Dam was constructed. > The Lake of the Ozarks is 129 miles long and, at it's > widest point, is 5 > miles across; encompassing an area of 61,000 acres. An > article published by > the Morgan County Historical Society states that over > 3,000 graves had to be > moved during the time of the constructon of Bagnell Dam; > however I have only > found records for 1,121 being recorded as having been > moved. >> >> > > Here is the URL for the lists of moved graves that I have > if anyone is > interested: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pattiejo/graves/moved.txt