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Cemetery: Buchanan County
Poor Farm Cemetery
Other:
Sign: No
Street: between
Hwy.71,169 Hwy. and I-29
City: St.
Joseph
Township: Washington
County: Buchanan
State: Missouri
Nation: United States
of America
Zip:
64506
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: on the former property of Green
Acres Old Folks Home
Type:
Road-public
Location: Surburban
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: Yes
Features: teraced fields and tree
lined creeks
Property: Public
Access: Inaccessible
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 1880 or older
Gravestones: atleast 20 known so far
Oldest: 1880-known
Newest: 1912-known
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: No
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: Unsure
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Unsure
Granite: Unsure
Marble: Unsure
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others: Unsure
Wood: Unsure
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: Unsure
Angels: Unsure
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Unsure
Photos: Unsure
Religious: Unsure
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery in danger of
destruction
Unmarked: Unsure
Broken: No
Toppled: No
Disintegrating: No
Buried: Unsure
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: Unknown
Vandalized: No
Report: Yes
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1: Problem-Access
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: County
Use:
Commercial
Bordering: Commercial
Change: Unknown
Reason: Commercial
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: No
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: St. Joseph News-Press
Surnames:
Diamond
Other_Information:
The poor farm later became the Green Acres Residential care
facility.Which the state of Missouri recently closed up.St. Joseph city
officials and Buchanan Co. officials got together to build a bunch of
retail stores.The Shoppes at Northridge now stand on appr.80 acres of
the main 160 acres of the former poor farm.Rumors are the city of St.
Joe plans on future developement on the remaining 80 acres.The location
of the cemetery is unknown according to officials and they don`t seem
to want to find out.All the care abt. is more businesses for St.
Joe.There `s a book that listed 19 people listed as BURIED HERE between
1880-1894 and I know of a lady named Diamond who died in 1912 and her
death certificate says shes buried in Co.Poor Farm Cem.The county and
city officials attitude seems to be we can`t let a bunch of long dead
poor people hold up St. Joe`s progress.That`s the way it seems to me,as
they sure don`t want to talk abt. this cemetery and they don`t want to
know where it is.There may be no markers at all
Support:
Call the Buchanan Co. Commissioners,Mayor Jones of St. Joseph, or any
other of these worthless politicians in St. Joe or Buchanan Co.,Mo.If
enough people call maybe they`ll know they can`t get away w\ this
dececraction of a cemetery
by officials who should be counted on to help protect our
cemeteries,not break the law and destroy them by covering them w\
asphalt and buildings.
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Name:
Charles Walker
Email: c_jwalker@ponyexpress.net
Date:
08-04-2005
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