This entry's purpose is to provide a place where what is known of the Woodsdale Cemetery can be entered into the Find-A-Grave database.
In July 1888, the town of Woodsdale, Stevens County, Kansas, found itself in need of a cemetery. It decided to place one in the southeast corner of the town company's land. The legal description of that quarter section of land is: NW 1/4 Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 37 West.
By 1920, the town of Woodsdale was abandoned and its cemetery became neglected. However, at that same time, Stevens County had several locations that were in a similar situation, so it began to look for a way to consolidate them.
In 1934, Stevens County relocated all of its orphaned graves to the Moscow (Kansas) Cemetery. The attached images include a listing of who was relocated to the Moscow Cemetery, a lot-map of the Woodsdale Cemetery, and a map of where the remains were reinterred in the Moscow Cemetery.
In all, the remains of forty-five people were relocated (to learn who they were, see the accompanying listing). Six of them have Find-A-Grave pages. They are:
The July 1888 Hay Meadow Massacre victims:
1. Woodsdale's sheriff, Sheriff John Myers Cross
2. One of Cross' deputies, Cyrus W. "Ted" Eaton
3. One of Cross' deputies, Robert Hubbard
4. One of Cross' deputies, Rolland T. Wilcox
Two Woodsdale citizens, one of whom "committed suicide" a few months before the Hay Meadow Massacre, and another who "committed suicide" when the men charged with the murders of the listed lawmen were being arraigned:
5. The wife of Charles Edwin "Ed" Short, who was a Woodsdale deputy, Frances "Fanny" Culver Short.
6. A banker at the Woodsdale State Bank, Frederick Alfred Butterfield.
In July 1888, the town of Woodsdale, Stevens County, Kansas, found itself in need of a cemetery. It decided to place one in the southeast corner of the town company's land. The legal description of that quarter section of land is: NW 1/4 Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 37 West.
By 1920, the town of Woodsdale was abandoned and its cemetery became neglected. However, at that same time, Stevens County had several locations that were in a similar situation, so it began to look for a way to consolidate them.
In 1934, Stevens County relocated all of its orphaned graves to the Moscow (Kansas) Cemetery. The attached images include a listing of who was relocated to the Moscow Cemetery, a lot-map of the Woodsdale Cemetery, and a map of where the remains were reinterred in the Moscow Cemetery.
In all, the remains of forty-five people were relocated (to learn who they were, see the accompanying listing). Six of them have Find-A-Grave pages. They are:
The July 1888 Hay Meadow Massacre victims:
1. Woodsdale's sheriff, Sheriff John Myers Cross
2. One of Cross' deputies, Cyrus W. "Ted" Eaton
3. One of Cross' deputies, Robert Hubbard
4. One of Cross' deputies, Rolland T. Wilcox
Two Woodsdale citizens, one of whom "committed suicide" a few months before the Hay Meadow Massacre, and another who "committed suicide" when the men charged with the murders of the listed lawmen were being arraigned:
5. The wife of Charles Edwin "Ed" Short, who was a Woodsdale deputy, Frances "Fanny" Culver Short.
6. A banker at the Woodsdale State Bank, Frederick Alfred Butterfield.
This entry's purpose is to provide a place where what is known of the Woodsdale Cemetery can be entered into the Find-A-Grave database.
In July 1888, the town of Woodsdale, Stevens County, Kansas, found itself in need of a cemetery. It decided to place one in the southeast corner of the town company's land. The legal description of that quarter section of land is: NW 1/4 Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 37 West.
By 1920, the town of Woodsdale was abandoned and its cemetery became neglected. However, at that same time, Stevens County had several locations that were in a similar situation, so it began to look for a way to consolidate them.
In 1934, Stevens County relocated all of its orphaned graves to the Moscow (Kansas) Cemetery. The attached images include a listing of who was relocated to the Moscow Cemetery, a lot-map of the Woodsdale Cemetery, and a map of where the remains were reinterred in the Moscow Cemetery.
In all, the remains of forty-five people were relocated (to learn who they were, see the accompanying listing). Six of them have Find-A-Grave pages. They are:
The July 1888 Hay Meadow Massacre victims:
1. Woodsdale's sheriff, Sheriff John Myers Cross
2. One of Cross' deputies, Cyrus W. "Ted" Eaton
3. One of Cross' deputies, Robert Hubbard
4. One of Cross' deputies, Rolland T. Wilcox
Two Woodsdale citizens, one of whom "committed suicide" a few months before the Hay Meadow Massacre, and another who "committed suicide" when the men charged with the murders of the listed lawmen were being arraigned:
5. The wife of Charles Edwin "Ed" Short, who was a Woodsdale deputy, Frances "Fanny" Culver Short.
6. A banker at the Woodsdale State Bank, Frederick Alfred Butterfield.
In July 1888, the town of Woodsdale, Stevens County, Kansas, found itself in need of a cemetery. It decided to place one in the southeast corner of the town company's land. The legal description of that quarter section of land is: NW 1/4 Section 13, Township 13 South, Range 37 West.
By 1920, the town of Woodsdale was abandoned and its cemetery became neglected. However, at that same time, Stevens County had several locations that were in a similar situation, so it began to look for a way to consolidate them.
In 1934, Stevens County relocated all of its orphaned graves to the Moscow (Kansas) Cemetery. The attached images include a listing of who was relocated to the Moscow Cemetery, a lot-map of the Woodsdale Cemetery, and a map of where the remains were reinterred in the Moscow Cemetery.
In all, the remains of forty-five people were relocated (to learn who they were, see the accompanying listing). Six of them have Find-A-Grave pages. They are:
The July 1888 Hay Meadow Massacre victims:
1. Woodsdale's sheriff, Sheriff John Myers Cross
2. One of Cross' deputies, Cyrus W. "Ted" Eaton
3. One of Cross' deputies, Robert Hubbard
4. One of Cross' deputies, Rolland T. Wilcox
Two Woodsdale citizens, one of whom "committed suicide" a few months before the Hay Meadow Massacre, and another who "committed suicide" when the men charged with the murders of the listed lawmen were being arraigned:
5. The wife of Charles Edwin "Ed" Short, who was a Woodsdale deputy, Frances "Fanny" Culver Short.
6. A banker at the Woodsdale State Bank, Frederick Alfred Butterfield.
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