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Respect, Honor and Diginity

A few months ago I went on a vacation to trace my lineage. I started with the oldest cemetery (1700’s) to the newest (1880 - 1900’s). My travels took me to a Revolutionary War Soldiers grave in Kentucky, to the tombstone of a Civil War Soldier in Missouri and then to the burial place of my 2x’s great grandparents in Monett Missouri. I only found a few headstones and a cemetery that was almost non existant. I did not find David Atchison McCubbin or his wife Vernetta Drace McCubbin. I was shocked, to say the least, how the cemetery had been treated over the last years. The current landowners and their ancestors have been and are running cattle and horses on it to keep the grass down.

This page has been established to inform and to be informed about this cemetery and to restore this cemetery to beauty to bring honor, dignity and respect to those pioneers who paved the way before us. They are gone, but should never be forgotten in the way that they have in this instance. My goal is to restore this cemetery to honor and respect those who are buried here. This is the first step to bring awareness to those who wish to become involved in the restoration process.

Sir Names in this cemetery: Crossland, Bryant, Baty, Longnecker, Eagle, Shipley, McCubbin, Eagle, Justice, Coe, Powers, Hall, Strickland, Frost, Lovejoy, Purcell, Razor, Reese, Madewell, Taylor, Turner.

These were pioneers who helped to establish this area and lay the foundation for what this area has become today. This cemetery was associated with a historical church called Arnold Chapel. The cemetery was established formally in 1912. They sold plots for $5.00 and offered free burials to the poor and babies. The cemetery has several children buried here who died from Typhoid Fever, Measles and other diseases that plagued the area between 1900 and 1915. Arnold Chapel was an important part of the Methodist movement in this area. It has been abandoned for years and unfortunately most of the headstones do not exist anymore. I have tried to get records from local funeral homes with no luck at all. Through my research I have found others that are buried here besides the original list of 22. There are 11 headstones left in the cemetery. Someone told me that there are 129 people buried here. I have only been able to confirm (through newspapers, death certificates) approximately 40 people that are here.

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