Auburn Presbyterian Church & Cemetery - Auburn, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 07.538 W 090° 58.472
15S E 675085 N 4332671
Auburn a town which is gone, but the church and cemetery survive
Waymark Code: WMW9BN
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2017
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County of cemetery: Lincoln County
Location of cemetery: Auburn Church Rd., off Old Auburn Rd., Auburn Presbyterian Church, Auburn
Number of graves: over 310
Today, the Aubrurn Presbyterian Church and the one in Whiteside, MO, celebrate as one. Services are held in each church on alternating months.
This cemetery has a huge number of hand made tombstones
"A small village, ten miles north of Troy. It was laid out in April, 1838, on lands of Daniel Draper, Sr., and Philander Draper, on the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 50 N, Range 1 W... In the early days Thacker Vivion had a cotton-gin near Auburn... For many years Auburn was a place of considerable business but since the railroads were completed through the county, it has declined, so that in 1888, it contained one general store and the post-office, kept by J.M. Terrell; a blacksmith shop by C. Teague; a Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a few residences. The 1888 physician was Dr. Joseph A. Knox... Auburn had about seventy-five inhabitants." ~ History of Lincoln County, 1888, Goodspeed, page 406