| Mount Comfort Cemetery History
Written by: John & Patricia Dill The Dills visited the cemetery in the summer of 1998. |
This cemetery had been surveyed some time ago, we had a copy of that listing. Our survey did not entirely agree with it. The cemetery is in poor shape, most of the stones are down.
At one time it may have been a large cemetery. It is certainly an old cemetery. It is spread out over a fairly large area within it's two acre site, there were probably many unmarked graves.
Tradition says this was the original site of the Mt. Comfort Cumberland Presbyterian Church, founded 1843. Only the remains of a cellar indicate the former location of the church. Sometime in the
later 1800's the church moved to it's present location at Berwick, Newton County. The names and dates on gravestones in both locations seems to confirm that information.
This is believed to be one of the original pioneer cemeteries in SW Missouri along with the equally abandoned ROSS Cemetery in eastern Newton County, MO. To some degree both of these cemeteries were later replaced by the Berwick and Clear Creek Cemeteries in eastern Newton County (by descendants of some of the original pioneers). |
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