2.0 miles east of Shamrock and 0.75 miles north of Rte. B



This cemetery is largely destroyed.



Destroyed Sayers Cemetery Marked

Samuel Sayers with a wife, three daughters and many slaves arrived in Missouri from Virginia about 1835. They settled on land they had purchased near the little community now known as Shamrock in the north east corner of Callaway County, Missouri. When the first death occurred in the family January 21, 1839, he selected a site for a family cemetery on the highest land that he owned. It overlooks the entire center part of land that he owned. It overlooks the entire center part of land and the site of the plantation home for a family of twelve, plus quarters for sixty-five slaves and all of the mill and farm buildings. In 1855 he was buried in this cemetery, undoubtedly at his request. In the winter of 1972 the cemetery contained marked graves for seventeen family members. In 1974 the owner of the land at the time illegally destroyed the entire cemetery, broke up the large monuments and carried them with the smaller ones to a nearby ravine. The land was bull-dozed and graded so that after a year or so it was almost impossible to locate the site of the cemetery. Several descendents and friends of the family have cooperated to erect a monument on the site of the cemetery. Included on it is all information from the seventeen original monuments, plus information on the family and plantation. The cemetery is undoubtedly one of the earliest of the provate cemeteries in Central Missouri that remains and is marked.



Text of a publication by the Sayers Family and Descendents