New Santa Fe Christian Church Cemetery

This cemetery is in Twp. 47N, Range 33W, Section 7, and is on the N side of Santa Fe Road, about 300 feet E of State Line Road, and 75 feet N of Santa Fe Road, just NW of the church. It is fenced, and in excellent condition, with one new recent burial. Apparently there are many unmarked graves.

Beginning at SW corner, reading North:

Robert E. Kerr, 1867-1937
John T. Kerr, 1856-1936

Thomas J. Engleman (father), 1818-1894
Mary L. Engleman (mother), 1833-1913

Kerr, Catherine, wife of Thomas Kerr, b: Feb. 12, 1827, d: Aug. 8, 1882
Kerr, Ida, daughter of T. and C. Kerr, b: Sept. 19, 1871, d: Aug. 23, 1875
Kerr, Thomas J., b: April 4, 1820, d: July 5, 1902
Nannie Kerr Conover, 1862-1892

Zachary T. Stewart, 1851-1920
Sallie Kerr Stewart, 1854-1948

Gertrude Stewart, b: April 20, 1868, d: Sept. 6, 1869

Stewart, Tilman B., son of A. M. and Cinderella Stewart, b: Dec. 1837, d: Feb. 28, 1873
Ann Stewart (not read)
Ethel, daughter of Glenn & Nannie Williams, d: Jan. 14, 1888, age 8 months, 29 days

John F. Alden, b: Nov. 22, 1915, d: March 4, 1917

Elwell, David (father), b: 1849, d: 1918

Maines, James B., son of H. D. and Nellie Maines, b: Jan. 7, 1874, d: Aug. 17, 1882

Morgan, Jeremiah (father), b: Aug. 31, 1801, d: Jan. 7, 1887
Morgan, Edith (mother), b: July 29, 1804, d: March 5, 18?7

Mattie P., wife of J. B. Short, Jr., b: March 17, 1871, d: March 17, 1896

Morgan, Missouri J., d: March 1900; age: 60 years
(baby) Joseph Shinpaugh, Jr., b: Nov. 26, 1911, d: Dec. 20, 1911

son, 1911
daughter, 1915, children of W. L. & I. M. Davis........THIS IS ON ONE STONE
son, 1921

Baby Boy Rose, Sept. 29, 1906 (this is a rough slab, with faint hand-cut lettering)

a small stone
an unreadable slab
a footstone, "D. L."
an unmarked marble stone (small)

"our baby", Joseph M. Binns, 1912-1913

Victor T. Binns, (father), 1888-1967
Retta A. Binns, (mother), 1892-1972

Eleanor B. Binns, 1918-1970


Half row, northern portion of cemtery

Young, Johnson, b: May 18, 1844, d: May 8, 1907
Young, Mary L., wife of Johnson Young, b: Oct. 9, 1848, d: Jan. 28, 1898

Mary L. Young (their daughter), b: July 25, 1894, d: May 6, 1897 "Many hopes lie buried here."

Little Mary (small stone)

Berniece Beymer, (mother), b: May 2, 1924, d: July 13, 1983

James R. Robertson, 1921-1925

James R. Robertson (father), b: Nov. 7, 1887, d:June 25, 1948
Minnie F. Robertson (mother), b: Sept. 6, 1891, d: Sept. 5, 1980 (matching stones)

small broken marble marker

Leo Gilbert Webber, June 27-28, 1927

two unreadable marble markers


2nd Row

Sweaney, Jacob, b: ???? 31, 1824, d: Jan. 29, 1918
Sweaney, Lydia, wife of Jacob Sweaney, b: May 14, 1838, d: Sept. 8, 1901

unmarked marble slab

Dabney Lipscomb, b: Dec. 5, 1806, d: (rest buried in concrete base)
Susan D., wife of D. Lipscomb, d: June 18, 1849, age 36 years, 5 months, 7 days

Nathan Lipscomb (son of D. & S. D. Lipscomb), d: Sept. 13, 1846, age 5 months, 28 days

(base, marker missing)

W. S. Neely, d: March 20, 1879, age 42 years, 3 months

Thomas A. Brown (father), b: Sept. 10, 1870, d: Nov. 20, 1933
Rosetta Brown (mother), b: April 4, 1874, d: Nov. 23, 1933
Myrtle B. Mawbry (daughter), 1891-1973


3rd Row

Leviniher Garten, wife of G. B. Garten, b: Aug. 8, 1828, d: Dec. 28, 1898
Boyd F. Perry, son of W. N. & C. B. Perry, d: Aug. 14, 1902, age 3 years, 2 months, 1 day
Walton E. McKinney, son of G. W. & F. S. McKinney, b: May 18, 1890, d: Dec. 24, 1892
Klapmeyer (large stone, no names) (See 4th Row readings)
Elmer McClain (father), 1872-1951
Mary Lenore Harline Stamps, b: March 28, 1913, d: July 8, 1988
Jason C. Webster, beloved son of Ronald and Norma, b: Sept. 18, 1970, d: July 25, 1979


4th Row

"father" (no more inscriptions)

Perry McKinney, (father), 1876-1957
Mayme McKinney, (mother), 1879-1976

Henry Klapmeyer, b: March 13, 1847, d: May 12, 1925
Mary A. Klapmeyer, b: Aug. 18, 1859, d: May 3, 1939
Ruth Klapmeyer, b: May 2, 1899, d: Oct. 5, 1902
Mary L. Klapmeyer, b: Nov. 17, 1882, d: Dec. 16, 1909
(above are matching stones that carry no family name, but are part of Klapmeyer area bounded by corner markers and marked by large monument in 3rd row)

Sirranthan D. Weeks, 1857-1930
Catherine F. Weeks, 1858-1914


5th Row

McKinney, William A., d: Jan. 12, 1900; age: 72 years, 11 months, 27 days
McKinney, Eliza A., wife of W. A. McKinney, d: Dec. 29, 1885; age: 46 years, 6 months, 29 days

Lawson, Nancy G., b: Sept. 4, 1821, d: March 21, 1888

Ernest P. Moore, b: Sept. 6, 1899, d: Dec. 9, 1899, age 3 months, 3 days
Clair W. Moore, b: (Feb. 3, 1901-Aug. 26, 1902??), age 1 year, 6 months, 22 days

Robert F. Lawson, 1849-1904
Mary J. Lawson, 1856-1943

Kernodle, Dr. James, son of Mrs. Wesley Gault (no stone)
Julia A. Kernodle, 1868-1936

Oliver Paul Kernodle, b: April 14, 1898, d: Aug. 20, 1972, born in Oklahoma Indian Territory (large new stone)


5th Row

John S. Lawson, b: Dec. 25, 1863, d: Oct. 11, 1936
Susan B. Lawson, b: July 22, 1869, d: Feb. 24, 1946

Geneva L. Lawson, daughter of J. S. and S. B. Lawson, b: March 30, 1895, d: Aug. 7, 1896
George M. Lawson, b: July 25, 1892, d: June 23, 1949

Footstone "NJL"

Lee Paisley, 1870-1893
Nannie Westhoff, 1866-1957 (one stone)

Flora L. Little, 1888-1970

Pasley, Isaac, b: 1836, d: 1912

Boyd Lawson Garten, b: Feb. 2, 1897, d: Sept. 19, 1953

John K. Garten, 1858-1937
Amanda J. Garten, 1857-1947

Iva Lee Garten (sister), 1881-1967


6th Row

infant son of B. H. & A. K. Sargent, Jan. 4, 1901

Herman R. Sargent, 1912-1930

Otto H. Sargent, 1868-1948
Azelia K. Sargent, 1868-1936

Thompson, C. W., b: 1838, d: 1912
Thompson, S. I., wife of C. W. Thompson, b: 1835, d: 1912

Charles L. Thompson, son of G. W. & S. I. Thompson, b: July 29, 1878, d: Dec. 29, 1899

Tom Stewart
Leeanah Stewart
Riley Stewart (small square markers)

George W. Stewart (father), 1859-1922
Isabella Stewart (mother), 1865-1950

"Our babies" (faintly inscribed in circle design)

John Albert Weaver, b: Aug. 29, 1898, d: Dec. 31, 1957

Fred A. Weaver, b: Aug. 29, 1889, d: June 26, 1987
"baby" Jennifer Anne Weaver, Nov. 21, 1974


7th Row

Callis, Charles C., b: Nov. 27, 1855, d: Jan. 20, 1914

John W. Wallace, 1846-1923
Sue H. Wallace, 1857-1938 (small squares)

????? Wallace (stone broken)


8th Row

Kerr, George T., b: Sept. 13, 1851, d: Aug. 10, 1925
Kerr, Cinderella S., b: Jan. 31, 1865, d: March 4, 1925


9th Row (along eastern fence)

B. Clark Kerr, b: Dec. 2, 1891, d: Aug. 22, 1971

Beverly C. Kerr, b: April 10, 1916, d: Jan. 1, 1990


The 1934 reading by the DAR includes these additional burials, which were not found in 1990:

Gault, Wesley, Mrs., d: 1887
Dr. James Kernodle, son of Mrs. Wesley Gault
Kerby, Jesse, d: Oct. 29, 1853; age: 66 years
Kerby, Nancy, d: Oct. 4, 1837; age: 45 years
Kerby, Hiley J., d: 1868; age: 35 years
Kerby, ???rew S., d: Aug. 13, 1853; age: 19 years
Lyle, Henrietta, daughter of B. T and J. E. Lyle, d: Sept. 14, 1861; age: 1 year, 3 months, 21 days

McKinney, Elizabeth J., daughter of W. A. and E. A. McKinney, d: April 14, 1880; age: 17 years, 4 months, 21 days

Stewart, A. M., b: April 5, 1812, d: July 30, 1885
Mrs. Josh Stewart, d: July ??, 1913, (no marker)

The above inscriptions were copied June 18, 1933, by Mrs. Louella Gill Harris, who was born on the Gill Farm just across the road from the little historic town of New Santa Fe, Mo., Nov. 27, 1860.

Information pertaining to a few of the unmarked graves was given by Mrs. Henry Klapmeyer of Martin City and Mrs. Ollie Sweaney Young-Scott of Hickman Mills, Missouri.