Mary Wilson - Auburn Cemetery - Auburn, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 07.514 W 090° 58.501
15S E 675044 N 4332626
This old church yard cemetery, once the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, now open to all, has many hand scribbled, and scratched into stone markers
Waymark Code: WMW9C9
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2017
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County of tombstone: Lincoln County
Location of tombstone: Auburn Cemetery, Auburn Church Rd., off Old Auburn Rd., Auburn
Stone text:
Mary
Wilson
1875 1896
Find-A-Grave lists the cemetery as being in Silex, the closest active town, but it is a few miles east of Silex. Google lists it as Elsberry, but it is 11 miles W. of Elsberry.
"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