Steamboat Disaster Dead - Unknown - Hermann, MO USA
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 41.945 W 091° 26.035
15S E 636186 N 4284548
Grave site of 35 dead from big steamboat explosion...
Waymark Code: WM134NB
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/15/2020
Views: 1
County of mausoleum: Gasconade County
Location of mausoleum: Shiller St., E. 9th St., & Gutenburg St., city cemetery, Hermann
Erected by: Brush & Palette Club, Inc.
Date Erected: 2019
Memorial Text: In memory of the early pioneers who perished in the explosion of the steamboat "Big Hatchie" at the wharf at Hermann in 1842, the thirty-five dead that lie buried here in unmarked graves and the many whose bodies were never recovered from the waters of the Missouri River.
Unknown listing on Find-A-Grave, a web site mis-named the landing and people like this keep up the error. The landing was Hermann's Landing, not Harmon's.