St Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery - Josephville, MO - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

County of cemetery: Lincoln County
Location of cemetery 1390 Josephville Rd., next to church, Josephville
Created: 1852
Number of graves: 495

There is a memorial to Gandy Dancers in this cemetery. And many of them are buried here.
I grew up in a Gandy Dancer town, Jedburg, Missouri.
Most people today have no idea what a Gandy Dancer is. Well, he was a railroad worker, who laid track, repaired track, etc...they rode to the work site on those little carts with see-saw pump handles to create motion and move them along the track, and when they pumped they looked like they were dancing a demented dance....and were tagged Gandy Dancers
You see that little cart is a Gandy You can read more J St Joe Cem.

This cemetery has a priest grave with a huge statue, a large cross, a grotto, a memorial wall built from the bricks of the old school building, and many old graves.

"The community now known as Josephville began in the early l800s as a mail stop and mercantile known as Schmuckers Store in Allen’s Prairie. The land was ceded through a Federal Grant under President Martin Van Buren by Joseph Allen in about 1837.

Construction of the parish rectory begin 1857, hut the building burned down one Sunday morning during High Mass. Father Conrad Tintrup arrived in 1858 and rebuilt the house, He also constructed a school and a teacher’s home in 1859. The brick school was eventually converted to a Sister’s house.

"St. Joseph Church has been referred to as “the oldest homemade church in the area". This is because clay for the bricks was dug from “the brick yard pond,” an area of red clay on the farm located across the road from the church. The bricks were baked “on the spot” on Leonard Rothermich’s farm at a cost of $4 per thousand. Lumber for the church floors and communion rail came from the trees of parishioners’ farms" ~ St. Joseph