Auburn Cemetery Arch - Auburn, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 07.508 W 090° 58.462
15S E 675101 N 4332616
Another church cemetery of a long gone community
Waymark Code: WMW9BT
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
This arch at the driveway entrance to this very old cemetery, is made of wrought iron, painted flat black.
the two pedestrian walk in gates are spear topped wrought iron rods formed in arched borders, the double central gates is a bigger image of the side gates.
The arch itself stands on two large wrought iron poles topped with small splash balls. In between the poles are two are rod..between which are welded the letters of the cemetery to present a smooth peace visions of the name
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