Plunkett Mausoleum - Elliott Grove Cemetery - Brunswick, Mo.
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N 39° 26.049 W 093° 07.386
15S E 489406 N 4364963
This limestone mausoleum is located in the west portion of the Elliott Grove Cemetery - north of Brunswick, Mo., west of Fort Orleans Avenue.
Waymark Code: WMP32F
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/20/2015
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James T. Plunkett is the oldest burial in the mausoleum - dated 1901 same date as on the mausoleum.
The mausoleum is limestone stone courses. The entryway is stone with a bronze gate. The jamb is decorated with scrollwork. The entablature reads: PLUNKETT.
A crown appears at the top of the cornice with the date of "1901".
From Find a Grave:
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"James T. Plunkett, aged 59 years, 7 months and 22 days, died Friday, May 10, 1901, at 11:40 p.m., at his home in this city.
Deceased was born in Lynchburg, VA., and came to Missouri with his parents in 1847; was educated in our public schools and began business life in his father's mercantile establishment. During the last years of the war he attended a business college in New York. In 1866 he entered the large boot and shoe house of J. R. Lionberger at St. Louis as bookkeeper, remaining with them for two years, when he returned to Brunswick and engaged in the drug business which he conducted for over 30 years.
In 1892 he was married to Miss Lou Smutz, who with two children survive him. He leaves his family well provided for, his wealth being estimated at about $50,000. besides $10,000. life insurance.
Thus again are we reminded how swiftly glide these lives of ours; that the dreams of hope are but shadows; that the honors for which we grasp must wither in our hands; that the cares, the joys, the fears of life, soon find an end. The community has lost a good citizen; the church has been deprived of a conscientious and true Christian, and his family of a kind and loving husband and father and brother. So, while his body sleeps its long sleep in the grave, heaped over with beautiful flowers and wreaths, he will long live in the memories of his many friends.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the family residence by Elder G. E. Prewitt and Rev. E. Bostwick in the presence of many friends from abroad who had gathered to pay the last earthly tribute of respect to their deceased friend, after which a large procession of sorrowing relatives and sympathizing friends followed the remains to Elliott Grove Cemetery where a temporary vault had been built for the reception of the body. At the grave impressive services were held by the Masonic Order of which deceased was a prominent and honored member. We herewith express our deep sympathy and condolence with his family in their great bereavement and loss. "