Missouri Boys Training School Cemetery
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
The Missouri State Training School for Boys at Boonville was founded in 1887 as a facility for wayward juvenile males. Over the years the school offered educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities, supplemented by social service, psychology, medical attention, and religious opportunities. The facility was transferred to the Missouri Department of Corrections in 1983 as a medium-security center for adult males.
In the nearly 100 years of operation, several boys died of various causes, and those without families or with families who could not afford the expense of burial, were buried here in this cemetery.
There are 46 headstones with only one containing an inscription, but it appears that at least 51 boys are in fact buried at this site. Although burial records have since been lost, several young men have been identified as having been buried here.
The Missouri State Training School for Boys at Boonville was founded in 1887 as a facility for wayward juvenile males. Over the years the school offered educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities, supplemented by social service, psychology, medical attention, and religious opportunities. The facility was transferred to the Missouri Department of Corrections in 1983 as a medium-security center for adult males.
In the nearly 100 years of operation, several boys died of various causes, and those without families or with families who could not afford the expense of burial, were buried here in this cemetery.
There are 46 headstones with only one containing an inscription, but it appears that at least 51 boys are in fact buried at this site. Although burial records have since been lost, several young men have been identified as having been buried here.
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Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed92%
- Percent with GPS90%
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
- Total memorials9k+
- Percent photographed93%
- Percent with GPS28%
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
- Total memorials203
- Percent photographed78%
- Percent with GPS1%
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
- Total memorials54
- Percent photographed0%
- Added: 26 Jul 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2363458
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