FIRST - Internment Union Cemetery - Kansas City, MO
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N 39° 04.544 W 094° 35.026
15S E 363001 N 4326374
Marker on the entrance gate walls of the cemetery...
Waymark Code: WM11Z3M
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2020
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County of marker: Jackson County
Location of marker: Warwick Trafficway & E. 28th Terrace, Union Cemetery Entrance, Kansas City
Erected by: The Native Sons of Kansas City
Date Erected: 8th day of November, 1957
Marker Text:
THE CEMETERY
The Union Cemetery was incorporated by the State of Missouri November 9, 1857 and
the first interment was made in 1858. Many of the graves have been removed from earlier burying grounds whose capacities had been reduced by fatalities of the cholera epidemics of 1848-1851. The cemetery was the united project of of the citizens of Kansas City and Westport and so was called Union. The main entrance originally was midway on the toll road joining the towns, now Main Street. Here Lie, with their families, founders and builders of Kansas City, Union and Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Westport of 1864, and some who acquired national fame. On March 15, 1937, Kansas City accepted this hallowed ground as a park for rest and contemplation.
This plaque of the history of Union Cemetery is presented this 8th day of November, 1957 by the Native Sons of Kansas City.
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