Old Alexandria Cemetery - Lincoln County, MO - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

County of cemetery: Lincoln County
Location of cemetery:
Number of graves: 725
Cemetery is said to be created in 1854

My number of approx. graves sites is larger than shown on Find-A-Grave, because I have attended as a member of the honor guard, 3 funerals in this cemetery that are not listed on that site.

  "A post office in the extreme northeast part of Bedford Township, about five miles north of Troy. It was established in 1886, and discontinued between 1904 and 1910. Named for old Mr. Israel Hines, who lived near the site, by some of his relatives who had secured the establishment of the post office there. He was doubtless the same man as Israel R. Hines, said in the County History to have been born in Wayne County, West Virginia, in 1847, to have spent his early years rafting on the Ohio River, and later to have farmed land in Lincoln County.
  On the same site was earlier located the old town of Alexandria, later called Old Alexandria. Alexandria was surveyed and laid out in 1822, and became the county seat in 1823. It was the second place to be chosen as county seat for Lincoln County, the first having been Monroe (q.v.).
  After the St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad in 1822 had passed a few miles away from it, however, it rapidly declined. The last court session was held here in 1829, after which the county seat was moved to Troy. Some thirty years later it was revived under the name of Old Alexandria, the change being made to avoid confusion with the rising town of Alexandria in Clark County, which assumed that name in 1848 and had a post office since 1853.
  Old Alexandria is first listed as a post office in 1876. It was discontinued, however, by 1886, the same year that saw the establishment of Hines. The old place was named for Alexandria, Virginia, on the south side of the Potomac River opposite Washington, D.C." ~ Postal Guide; Hayward; Goodwin; Parker, MISSOURI IN 1867, pg. 301; Williams N.E., MISSOURI I, pg. 399; HIST. LINCOLN, pgs. 405-6; 554-5; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, pg. 14; COUNTY MAP 1939; Miss Elliott's thesis; Andy J. Brown