Arthur and Mary deeded 17 acres of land to provide for the Shiloh Church and cemetery in either 1855 or 1856.
"Arthur Mathis lived 3 miles south of us. One morning a party of armed men rode up to his dwelling before the family had ate breakfast and compelled Mr. Mathis to go with them and after they had took him a quarter of a mile from the house they stopped and shot him to death. The murderers would not permit the men of the neighborhood to give burial to the body and the women had it to do. Both the body of this man and that of Mr. Sootens were buried in the grave yard at the Shiloh Church Home." - A FEW ITEMS OF EARLY TIMES AT WARSAW AND VICINITY By S.C. Turnbo (Story was told to Mr. Turnbo by Giles Hudspeth Harris, an inmate in the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri near Higgensville on the 26th of June 1907.)
"Arthur Mathis lived 3 miles south of us. One morning a party of armed men rode up to his dwelling before the family had ate breakfast and compelled Mr. Mathis to go with them and after they had took him a quarter of a mile from the house they stopped and shot him to death. The murderers would not permit the men of the neighborhood to give burial to the body and the women had it to do. Both the body of this man and that of Mr. Sootens were buried in the grave yard at the Shiloh Church Home." - A FEW ITEMS OF EARLY TIMES AT WARSAW AND VICINITY By S.C. Turnbo (Story was told to Mr. Turnbo by Giles Hudspeth Harris, an inmate in the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri near Higgensville on the 26th of June 1907.)
Arthur and Mary deeded 17 acres of land to provide for the Shiloh Church and cemetery in either 1855 or 1856.
"Arthur Mathis lived 3 miles south of us. One morning a party of armed men rode up to his dwelling before the family had ate breakfast and compelled Mr. Mathis to go with them and after they had took him a quarter of a mile from the house they stopped and shot him to death. The murderers would not permit the men of the neighborhood to give burial to the body and the women had it to do. Both the body of this man and that of Mr. Sootens were buried in the grave yard at the Shiloh Church Home." - A FEW ITEMS OF EARLY TIMES AT WARSAW AND VICINITY By S.C. Turnbo (Story was told to Mr. Turnbo by Giles Hudspeth Harris, an inmate in the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri near Higgensville on the 26th of June 1907.)
"Arthur Mathis lived 3 miles south of us. One morning a party of armed men rode up to his dwelling before the family had ate breakfast and compelled Mr. Mathis to go with them and after they had took him a quarter of a mile from the house they stopped and shot him to death. The murderers would not permit the men of the neighborhood to give burial to the body and the women had it to do. Both the body of this man and that of Mr. Sootens were buried in the grave yard at the Shiloh Church Home." - A FEW ITEMS OF EARLY TIMES AT WARSAW AND VICINITY By S.C. Turnbo (Story was told to Mr. Turnbo by Giles Hudspeth Harris, an inmate in the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri near Higgensville on the 26th of June 1907.)
Gravesite Details
Arthur and Mary's cemetery stone is made of galvanized metal painted pale green. It was patented Jan. 9th, 1894. It has a glass enclosure with a paper inside that gives family names, dates. Below the glass, the metal is embossed with flowers.
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