Willie Colt - Sunset Hills Cemetery - Boonville, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 57.812 W 092° 44.705
15S E 522085 N 4312760
Buried just up the hill from the Civil War Memorial.
Waymark Code: WM16AH0
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2022
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County of marker: Cooper County
Location of marker: W end of South St., Sunset Hills Cemetery, Boonville
Erected by: Missouri Civil War Heritage Foundation, Inc.; Boonville Tourism Commission
Date Erected: 2010
Marker Text:
The story of Little Willie is one dear to the hearts of the people of Boonville. Be sure to see the graves of William Colt and his little son Willie. They died in Boonville in 1856 from a fever contracted as they traveled overland from Kansas. The town cared for them in their final days, and laid them to rest, and it cared for a devastated wife and sister who survived to compete the wagon trip home to New York.
The mother wrote a book about this incident, called Went TO Kansas. The actual book can be read in the link below or a shorter version here: Went To Kansas