Your name is Headrick--no connection to Hendrick? My husband's family was from that same general area. Hr in MO -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Moore <mhm@commspeed.net> To: MOPIKE-L@rootsweb.com <MOPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [MOPIKE-L] Re: Headrick family cemetery >Hi Virginia. I am a descendant of Peter(son of John B and Mariah >Headrick )and Martha Henry Headrick. I have tried before to answer some of >the queries you put on the board, but have always had them kicked back, so >will try once more. I am sending this to both the message board and >your email address, Marilyn H Moore mhm@commspeed.net > >I visited the Headrick Cemetery from several times in the early nineties. >My husband I were living on his family farm in New Hartford from 1989-1995. >I am originally from Hannibal MO and although he was born in CA, he was >raised on the aforementioned farm in Pike Co. We moved back to MO from AZ, >planning to retire there from AZ ( a reversal of the usual retirement), but >since our children and their families remained in AZ, we sold the farm and >returned . > >The Headrick Cem is off Dougherty Pike Rd, which runs north of Hwy 54 >It appears from the plat map to be Pike Co Rd 52. I am sure if you would ask >at some local gas station they could advise you. The plat map location is >Township 54N Range 2 W Section 15. in 1995 there was a Hwy Dept maintenance >yard where Hwy 54 and Dougherty Pike intersect. The road winds around for a >mile or so, I've forgotten the exact distance. You follow it until just >before it curves to the west. It is located on the right side of the road. >In 1989, a man named Miller was in possession of it. Going north it is on >the right side of the road. The family home set back off the road and the >old road to the cemetery ran back south from it. It will be necessary to ask >to view the burying ground.( We just knocked on the door.) The man I talked >to was about 25 to 30 at the time I imagine, at the times my sister and I >visited there. He worked for the Land Dept at the Courthouse in Bowling >Green. If you are in the area when that is open, they may be able to direct >you at least to the location of the acreage. However, there was a new owner >of the land by the time we moved back to AZ...I don't have the name. A >current plat map at the Courthouse, would however, I'm sure. > >The cemetery sits upon a small hill and we were told surrounded by a metal >wrought iron fence until the Summer of 1989, when it was stolen. We were >several months too late to see the fence. Although the folks who lived on >the property then said they tried to keep it up, there were millions-it >seemed- of day lilies and some beautiful trees, some of which the man told >us were not native to MO, so they family must have brought them along when >they moved west.It was rather inspiring to look at them and think one of our >ancestors had probably brought along the saplings from their old home. There >were several headstones: John Blair Headrick (b Nov 1 1799 d Mar 8 1890), >Mariah B Work Headrick( b Mar 17 1803 d Nov 22 1865), ,Arietta Headrick, >wife of John C Headrick, (d Dec 27 1882 aged 31 yrs 6 mos 6 dys) and James >B B Headrick(b June 22 1827 d Aug 15 1859-32 yrs 1 mo 24 dys) . There were >quite a lot of rather sunken areas, where I feel were other graves, but they >probably had field stones that have long since deteriorated. I was hoping to >find Peter and Martha Henry Headrick. > >Hope this has been of some help Marilyn > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <VHawes8797@aol.com> >To: <MOPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 8:16 AM >Subject: [MOPIKE-L] Re: Headrick family cemetery > > >> I have been to Louisiana twice looking for the old Headrick family >cemetery. >> I know it is on the back of a private farm somewhere in Buffalo Twp. The >> original farm was on Tanyard Creek, next to Stark's. The farm was lost in >> 1875, and the Headricks moved up to Shelby County. The last burial on the >> farm was John Blair Headrick, in or about 1892. He was born in 1799. >There >> are between 8 and 12 graves, or so I have been told. Would like to make >some >> rubbings if I can find them. It's a 500 mile drive, so would like to >know >> before I leave. >> Thank you >> Virginia Hawes >> email: vhawes 8797@aol.com >> >> >> > >