St. Mary's Cemetery - Mashek, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 00.261 W 091° 04.563
15S E 666594 N 4319020
Once a Catholic Church and town sat here, the church moved to Hawk Point and began a new cemetery, the town disappeared.
Waymark Code: WMW7HE
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2017
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County of cemetery: Lincoln County
Location of cemetery: MO-AA & Mashek Rd., 3 miles E. of Hawk Point
Created: 1848
Number of graves 220
"St. Mary's Catholic Church & Cemetery
"In the southwest part of Bedford Township, near Mashek. It is also called Bohemian Church from the Bohemian settlers here and is also sometimes known as St. Mary's Parish in honor of the Virgin. St. Mary's Mission is also here." ~ Lincoln County Arlas, 1878, page 49; Catholic Directory, St. Louis Archdiocese, 1888;
"Because a handful of Central European immigrants staked out their futures in the rolling, timbered country northwest of Troy in 1848, Hawk Point has never been your typical Anglo-Saxon-German Midwestern farming town. Rather it has a different style and flavor.
"Possibly no more that half a dozen Bohemian families were the original pioneers, but more came during the 1850s and 60s -- people with names like Knizel, Shramek, Martinek, Kallash, Kuda and Shilharvey.
"Now only the Catholic cemetery remains to remind the present generation of life there long ago. But the picturesque countryside north of Highway 47 still is known as the Bohemian settlement; some descendants of the early residents still live there and the Old World quaintness has not been totally lost." ~ City of Hawk Point History