Date: July 12, 2001
Cemetery: Mindenmines
Established: Unknown
Street: Corner of 160th & 30th, Mindenmines, MO
Type: Road-public
City: Mindenmines MO
Township: SouthWest
County: Barton
State: Missouri
Nation: USA
Zip:
Nearby: South 160th street and South 30th street
Location: Rural-mixed
Land: Flat
Watersource: Yes
Features: Trees and tall grass, weeds, etc.
Sign: No
Land Type:
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Gravestones: Unknown
Oldest: Unknown
Newest: Unknown
Unmarked: Unsure
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Buried: Unsure
Removed: Unknown
Weather problems: Unknown
Pollution problems: Unknown
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Only readable headstones, by the Lamar
Historical Society
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized: Yes
Police report:
VA: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage:
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Restoration: No work started as of yet
Owner: Unknown
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Smaller
Reason: Agriculture
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted: Mindenmines City Hall, a poor
community apparently without funds to maintain the cemetery.
Other Information
Not only were these folks early settlers but soldiers in the Civil
war. I understand by the records at the Lamar Historical Society that
there are two soldiers whose headstones are readable, plus about 15 or
so others that are readable. It was told to us, by City Hall, that a
farmer plowed up part of the cemetery, thinking it belonged to him for
agricultural use.
Support
Former "unknown" graduates of the "former"
Mindenmines High School have protested, according to the historian at
Lamar, the county seat of Barton County MO. I do not know who else would
be supportive.
Submitted by:
name: Colleen King
Email: WDKCMK@prodigy.net
