Sulphur Lick Cemetery - Lincoln County, MO
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N 39° 03.678 W 091° 03.657
15S E 667767 N 4325368
Large cemetery and no community nearby. Once a post office was here, and a Baptist Church
Waymark Code: WMW8G8
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/24/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member MountainWoods
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County of cemetery: Lincoln County
Location of cemetery: MO-H & Tagg Rd., about 9 miles NW of Troy
Number of graves: approx. 630

Sulphur Lick
"A post office probably located in the northeast part of Union Township, eight miles north of Troy. It was listed as a post office in 1853 and in 1876, but did not appear on the later available postal guides." ~ Postal Guide of Missouri, Hayward

Sulphur Lick Baptist Church
"A Primitive Baptist Church at Davis, nine miles northwest of Troy, in the southwest part of Millwood Township. It is near the spring known as Sulphur Lick (q.v.), for which it was named. It was organized by the Reverend Bethuel Riggs, in his own house, about four miles east of the present site. There is some dispuite about the date of his organization: the HISTORY OF LINCOLN puts it in 1823, bur Dr. Joseph Mudd, in a history of the old church, maintains that it was ten years earlier, and the date of 1813 is supported by Williams. The Reverend Bethuel Riggs, father of General Jonathan Riggs, for whom see Riggs Ford (above), came to Missouri in 1809 according to one account, or in 1812 by another. He was born in New Jersey, and had served in the American Revolution. He was converted at the age of eighteen and became a Baptist minister. He also helped to organize the Stout's Settlement Baptist Church (q.v.), in 1821. Whenever he founded the Sulphur Lick Church, he was certainly its pastor for many years." ~ Lincoln County, Duncan, pages 205, 219-220; History of Lincoln County, Goodspeed, 1888, pages 476-6; N.E. MISSOURI I, Williams, page 402

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Mackville, Lincoln County, Missouri

Approximate number of graves: 630

Cemetery Status: Active

Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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