Callaway County, Missouri Journal

Pleasant Grove Cemetery

 

Township 49-Range 8 - Section 11-ne/se

 

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One of the older Methodist Churches in continous operation in Callaway. A deed to the cemetery is dated April 26, 1854 for two acres of land' from Archibald and his wife Nancy Harding to trustees: Jacob G. King, Moses McClintock, W. J. Edmonston and William Selby. Another deed from Nancy Harding and heirs enlarged the area another two acres.

 

"Because of his love for his community and his wife, Murry M. Reed had a bronze plaque erected atop a granite marker in the church yard, adjacent to the cemetery." 

"TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF PLEASANT GROVE  CHURCH AND OTHERS OF THE HATTON COMMUNITY, I WISH TO DEDICATE THIS MARKER TO YOU.     

YOUR KIND WORDS AND FIRM HANDSHAKE MEANT SO MUCH TO ME DURING MY TIME OF TRIAL IN THE DEATH OF MY PRECIOUS WIFE, PAULINE.   

  YOUR FEEDING OF BOTH SOUL AND BODY WAS A TRUE REVELATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN ACTION.    

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.     12-7-1981     MURRY M. REED"

Murry M. Reed born 6 Sept 1897 -died 13 Oct 1993 married Anna Pauline Pitts 10 Sept 1927 (no children born to them) son of L.C. (Lacellus C.) Reed and Nancy Cordelia Selby Reed

information reeived from a great niece of Mr. Reed

 

Monument in the cemetery erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.

"This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". . Source: MO-CW Mail List- Bruce Nichols- refer: 1937 Audrain County history, page 84;    "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.

Additional listings are marked with *. This information collected on 22 June, 2003 by Gene and Nora Rudd, Rob and Michele Rudd. Contributed for use to CCMJ. Our thanks to all of them for these updates.


Adair

Atkinson

Barnes

Barnett

Bellamy

Black

Boulware

Bright

Branham

Cannell

Chism

Cottrell

Craig

Crawford

Creed

Crews

Cunningham

Davis

Duffy

Ellis

Emmons

Faucett

Fred

Fewell

Firebaugh

Fish

Gibbs

Glascock

Goodrich

Gregory

Griffin

Harding

Hassler

Hatcher

Henderson

Hite

Holt

Hovey

Hulett

Hutchinson

Iman

Johnson

Kemp

Kennon

Key

Lawrence

Leach

Lowry

Martin

Masters

McClintic

McElroy

Medley

Mildred

Moore

Morgan

Muir

New

Nichols

Patterson

Phillips

Rodman

Rudd

Selby

Senor

Sipple

Smith

St.Clair

Stevens

Swinney

Telkamper

Tincher

Utt

Vance

VanBooven

 



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