Located at 50th Terrace and Eastern Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri.Established circa 1844 by Alfred Cole as a family burial ground. The last member of this extended family was buried in 1923. Originally from Tennessee, Benjamin Brown and his wife Sidney and their children along with Alfred Cole and his wife Harriet and their four children, moved to land that was considered at that time, Indian country. The Cole's bought an estimated 300 acres in 1844. They began to clear the land to farm and built a house, just north of the cemetery site. Late in October of 1844, the Cole's seven year old son James died, and was buried south of their house, establishing that location as the family cemetery. The Abstract of Title for the Cole Cemetery, states that the cemetery is for the "use and benefit of the heirs of Benjamin Brown and Alfred Cole." However, the cemetery was also used for the extensive family created by cross-family marriages. There were (36) known headstones in 1934 when members of the DAR inventoried the cemetery. Later, in 1994 Victor Meador a Jackson County cemetery recorder and expert found 12-14 "field stones." Field stones are uncut and uninscribed rocks that mark graves of people too poor to afford headstones. He believes that a cluster of stones in a corner might be a section where slaves were buried (this has not been verified).---from a flyer available at the cemetery

Cole Cemetery entrance
November 2006