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Mayhew Cemetery

Also known as Mayhew Burial Grounds , Mayhew Colored Cemetery

Bourbon County, Kansas, USA

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    Coordinates: 37.85492, -94.69195
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ABANDON CEMETERY - ALL GRAVES ARE UNMARKED
Scott twp. 25.
Mayhew Burial Grounds (colored cemetery) Scott twp. 25, Bourbon County, KS 1888-1911 : extraction from Old fort log, Fort Scott, Kansas
Author: Kaye Stanley; Nancy Jennings Pressley; Alice A Walker; Jack Pellett, Mrs.; Daughters of the American Revolution. Molly Foster Berry Chapter (Fort Scott, Kan.

This message was posted 28 May 2015 on message board
Message Boards Surnames Curtis Mayhew Cemetery - Fort Scott, Kansas by Kansas_Kate
Surnames: Curtis Dodson Killion LaRue Mayhew McConico Ranson Wilkerson

I am one of a small group researching an abandoned cemetery in Fort Scott, Bourbon Co, Kansas. It was active, probably, from the 1860s/70s to the 1930s. It was mostly a Black ("colored") cemetery, but also interred there were a few Whites, Native Americans, and a Mexican.

There are no headstones, no cemetery records. I have used old funeral home records and old newspaper death notices to put together a list of those buried in Mayhew.

Local legends include a) the bodies were moved to another cemetery (no evidence found of that so far); b) a farmer plowed under the stones in the 1950s; c) same farmer claimed it was City that threw stones in river.

If anyone has information on this history of the cemetery or on the people buried there, please contact me. We are looking for facts based on primary sources, but any and all information would be welcome.

This research will lead to an interpretive marker in a park not far from where the cemetery is/was located

















ABANDON CEMETERY - ALL GRAVES ARE UNMARKED
Scott twp. 25.
Mayhew Burial Grounds (colored cemetery) Scott twp. 25, Bourbon County, KS 1888-1911 : extraction from Old fort log, Fort Scott, Kansas
Author: Kaye Stanley; Nancy Jennings Pressley; Alice A Walker; Jack Pellett, Mrs.; Daughters of the American Revolution. Molly Foster Berry Chapter (Fort Scott, Kan.

This message was posted 28 May 2015 on message board
Message Boards Surnames Curtis Mayhew Cemetery - Fort Scott, Kansas by Kansas_Kate
Surnames: Curtis Dodson Killion LaRue Mayhew McConico Ranson Wilkerson

I am one of a small group researching an abandoned cemetery in Fort Scott, Bourbon Co, Kansas. It was active, probably, from the 1860s/70s to the 1930s. It was mostly a Black ("colored") cemetery, but also interred there were a few Whites, Native Americans, and a Mexican.

There are no headstones, no cemetery records. I have used old funeral home records and old newspaper death notices to put together a list of those buried in Mayhew.

Local legends include a) the bodies were moved to another cemetery (no evidence found of that so far); b) a farmer plowed under the stones in the 1950s; c) same farmer claimed it was City that threw stones in river.

If anyone has information on this history of the cemetery or on the people buried there, please contact me. We are looking for facts based on primary sources, but any and all information would be welcome.

This research will lead to an interpretive marker in a park not far from where the cemetery is/was located

















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