Old City Cemetery
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA
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- This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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Add PhotosThis cemetery was in existence until 1876 when they were suppose to remove all bodys to Maple Park and Hazelwood cemeteries. In the 1930's as they were expanding Springfield and installing water mains and building houses where the cemetery was, they uncovered human bones over and over. Therefore it is believed that all were not moved.
Children were known to steal the small tombstones to use for their pet's graves and some were stolen on Halloween. So if there was no tombstone, they did not get moved. Today, the Old City Cemetery of Springfield, Missouri is a residential area and a parking lot. The land for the cemetery was deeded to the city by Professor John A. Stephens on the southwest corner of the block now bounded by Mt. Vernon and Campbell Avenues and South and State Streets.
On January 8, 1863 during the Civil War, Union soldiers took cover behind the existing grave markers to fire upon advancing Confederate forces driving from the south until forced to retreat.
After the Civil War, when the city no longer used the cemetery, the land was sold to Mr. L. H. Murray with the understanding that he would see that all of the graves were moved to other cemeteries. Those that were reinterred were at Hazelwood and Maple Park cemeteries. More graves of the Old City Cemetery were unearthed when State Street was graded and paved. Additional bones were discovered in Oct. 1930 when workers were digging to install a gas pipeline along Campbell Avenue between State and Mt. Vernon Streets.
This cemetery was in existence until 1876 when they were suppose to remove all bodys to Maple Park and Hazelwood cemeteries. In the 1930's as they were expanding Springfield and installing water mains and building houses where the cemetery was, they uncovered human bones over and over. Therefore it is believed that all were not moved.
Children were known to steal the small tombstones to use for their pet's graves and some were stolen on Halloween. So if there was no tombstone, they did not get moved. Today, the Old City Cemetery of Springfield, Missouri is a residential area and a parking lot. The land for the cemetery was deeded to the city by Professor John A. Stephens on the southwest corner of the block now bounded by Mt. Vernon and Campbell Avenues and South and State Streets.
On January 8, 1863 during the Civil War, Union soldiers took cover behind the existing grave markers to fire upon advancing Confederate forces driving from the south until forced to retreat.
After the Civil War, when the city no longer used the cemetery, the land was sold to Mr. L. H. Murray with the understanding that he would see that all of the graves were moved to other cemeteries. Those that were reinterred were at Hazelwood and Maple Park cemeteries. More graves of the Old City Cemetery were unearthed when State Street was graded and paved. Additional bones were discovered in Oct. 1930 when workers were digging to install a gas pipeline along Campbell Avenue between State and Mt. Vernon Streets.
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- Added: 22 May 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2355092
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