This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GMB.2ACE/646 Message Board Post: Some of my ancestors lived in Platte Co. from 1844-1853. They are listed in the "Pettis Township" in 1850 census, and were known to be in Parkville just prior to that. Josiah C. Parker died in 1853, no record of how or where buried. Any help on records for that period and cemeteries that may have existed at that time would be greatly appreciated.