| Cornelison Family Cemetery - Near Seligman, MO
Barry County, Missouri Sugar Creek Township S3, T21N, R28W Transcribed and history added May 2003 by: Brandon Burns South east of Washburn, straight north of Seligman. |
| Directions: From Highway 37, turn onto Blockade Rd. (FR 1070). The cemetery is in the middle of a field on the Raustandt (Ruc-A-Bye Farms) property. The cemetery is in a fenced grove of trees. The cemetery is grown up in weeds and thorns. There are only two marked graves in the cemetery.
Early settlers of Seligman were Jess and Mary Cornelison, who settled on land that was to become part of the 680 acres belonging to Claude C. McCollum for more than five decades. It is located about three miles north of Seligman. |
| Jess Cornelison came from Kentucky around 1850. He and his wife Mary brought with them well bred stock and some negro slaves. At this time the land was all in timber and had to be cleared by the slaves in order to have land for farming and for buildings. The cut timber had to be burned as there was no market for it at the time. They, their slaves, and five others are buried a short distance from their house. Jess and Mary's graves were marked by rock markers until about 20 years ago when new grave markers were placed by some of their descendants. Jess and Mary's children were: Garrett, John, Martin T., William, James Harrison, Elijah, Sarah Ann, Miles, Milton P., Orlena, Nancy Marlessie, Jesse E. Jr., Joseph Columbus, Madison Porter, and Mary O. |
| Row 1:
1 - Rock Marker (belongs to a Mr. Hale) 2 and 3 - Rock Markers (belongs to two children) 4 and 5 - Rock Markers (belongs to two negro slaves) 6 and 7 - double stone: Jesse and Mary Cornelison - born in 1780 in North Carolina. 4 and 5 - Rock Markers (belong to a man and wife) They used to have a two foot rock wall around their graves, but it has been on the ground for several years. |
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