Strode Burying Ground in Grandview, Missouri

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Coordinates: 38.88064, -94.47815
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Sect. 20, Twp 47, Range 32W
Prairie Township?

Mr. Brown sent copies of the description of the old Strode Cemetery. A sheet with the letterhead of the City Engineer's office in Independence, Missouri headed F. A. Jones Civil Engineer and Surveyor, reads as follows:

Description: Beginning at a point (at right angles with the 1/2 section line) 1008 feet North, and 241 1/2 feet East running thence North 60 feet, thence East 35 feet; then South 60 feet and thence West 35 feet to the beginning magnetic variation 6 o 10' East, on all lines. Very respectfully submitted, F. A. Jones, Dupty Co. Surveyor, Jackson County, Missouri

214.132. 1. Any person who wishes to visit an abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground which is completely surrounded by privately owned land, for which no public ingress or egress is available, shall have the right to reasonable ingress or egress for the purpose of visiting such cemetery. This right of access to such cemeteries extends only to visitation during reasonable hours and only for purposes usually associated with cemetery visits.

2. The sheriff or chief law enforcement officer of the county in which the abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground is located shall enforce the provisions of subsection 1 of this section.

Mr. Brown also has a letter from the Jackson County Health Department dated December 1929. The sheet shows the plots or individuals burial places of many of the Strode family. The plots run from North to South in three rows, with numbering beginning at the north side of the West row. That row is numbered 1-12; the next row, to the East, from 13-23; and the row farthest East from 24-35.