ABSTRACT OF TITLE
James W. Shaffer and Lucy Shaffer, his wife
Grantees:
The Judges of the County Court
Warranty Deed
Date of Instrument: June 21, 1906
Date of Record: June 26, 1906
Book 73, page 169
Consideration: $1.00
Date of Acknowledgement: June 21, 1906
Before whom Acknowledged: S. S. Hiller, Notary Public, Clark County, Missouri.
Description and Remarks:
All of a tract of land described as commencing at a point 18 rods north and 24 rods east of the southwest corner of the southwest fourth of the southeast quarter of section eleven (11), township sixty six (66), range eight (8) west, running thence east 3 rods, north 3 rods, thence west 3 rods and thence south 3 rods to the place of beginning. Said tract of land to be used for burial purposes only by the family and relation of grantors only.
Note: The above named cemetery is known as the Shaffer Family Cemetery.
- The first known burial was in l850, and the last in 1930. These dates were copied from the book, Cemetery Inscriptions of Clark County, Missouri.
- The book lists 12 tombstones in the cemetery, of course there may be more burials in unmarked graves.
- A Civil War soldier is buried in the cemetery, who died Jan. 4, 1865, with the sad inscription on his tombstone, "Our boy died for his country."
- Compiled by Mary Jo Sisson March, from records and information sent to her by James R. Kuttler, a descendant of John Shaffer (1809-1850).
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