Married Cora Elizabeth Wares on 22 Jan 1902 in Macon, Macon County, Missouri. Married Violet H. Starmer on 31 July 1950 in Shelbina, Shelby County, Missouri.
Occupation: Farming
MO d/c 16777
Cemetery Trespass Case Tried at Paris
On a charge of venue from Shelby County, the case of William Glenn and other trustees of the New Providence Cemetery Assocition near Leonard, against Uriah Johnston and others, was tried in Monroe Circuit Court, with damages allowed the plaintiffs.
The case was an unusual one and of interest to all those whe have persons buried in now abandoned cemeteries.
In the original petiton, the cemetery trustees claimed that Uriah Johnston, Anna Johnston, Alma Harder, John Johnston and Saloma Lind, owners of a farm adjoining the cemetery, took down the cemetery fence, allowed livestock to runn over and desecrate the graves and destroy cemetery shrubbery, and that they also carried off and used or sold the remains of a church building that stood on the same plot of ground. the trustees asked that Johnston, who operates the farm, be restrained from using the cemetery grounds for his own purposes, that the grounds be restored to the Association, and tht damages be allowed for destruction of the fence and for the building materials carried away.
Total damages allowed the association were around $500 on all counts. The cemetery will again be fenced and Johnston not allowed to use it.
Johnston, in his defense, contended that since the original land for the church and cemetery came from the farm he now operates, he had a right to both use of the land and the materials remaining in the abandoned church building, after it had cesaed to be regularly used.
In Monroe County there are dozens of old cemeteries that have been turned back into pasture of crop land, in many of which the gravestones have disappeared. Failure to keep these fenced and in conditions is in most cases due to lack of interest on the part of the surviving relatives, of to lack of any surviving relatives of those buried there.
Monroe County Appeal, Paris, Missouri, September 17, 1947
(Contributed by Shelby County Historical Society)
Occupation: Farming
MO d/c 16777
Cemetery Trespass Case Tried at Paris
On a charge of venue from Shelby County, the case of William Glenn and other trustees of the New Providence Cemetery Assocition near Leonard, against Uriah Johnston and others, was tried in Monroe Circuit Court, with damages allowed the plaintiffs.
The case was an unusual one and of interest to all those whe have persons buried in now abandoned cemeteries.
In the original petiton, the cemetery trustees claimed that Uriah Johnston, Anna Johnston, Alma Harder, John Johnston and Saloma Lind, owners of a farm adjoining the cemetery, took down the cemetery fence, allowed livestock to runn over and desecrate the graves and destroy cemetery shrubbery, and that they also carried off and used or sold the remains of a church building that stood on the same plot of ground. the trustees asked that Johnston, who operates the farm, be restrained from using the cemetery grounds for his own purposes, that the grounds be restored to the Association, and tht damages be allowed for destruction of the fence and for the building materials carried away.
Total damages allowed the association were around $500 on all counts. The cemetery will again be fenced and Johnston not allowed to use it.
Johnston, in his defense, contended that since the original land for the church and cemetery came from the farm he now operates, he had a right to both use of the land and the materials remaining in the abandoned church building, after it had cesaed to be regularly used.
In Monroe County there are dozens of old cemeteries that have been turned back into pasture of crop land, in many of which the gravestones have disappeared. Failure to keep these fenced and in conditions is in most cases due to lack of interest on the part of the surviving relatives, of to lack of any surviving relatives of those buried there.
Monroe County Appeal, Paris, Missouri, September 17, 1947
(Contributed by Shelby County Historical Society)
Married Cora Elizabeth Wares on 22 Jan 1902 in Macon, Macon County, Missouri. Married Violet H. Starmer on 31 July 1950 in Shelbina, Shelby County, Missouri.
Occupation: Farming
MO d/c 16777
Cemetery Trespass Case Tried at Paris
On a charge of venue from Shelby County, the case of William Glenn and other trustees of the New Providence Cemetery Assocition near Leonard, against Uriah Johnston and others, was tried in Monroe Circuit Court, with damages allowed the plaintiffs.
The case was an unusual one and of interest to all those whe have persons buried in now abandoned cemeteries.
In the original petiton, the cemetery trustees claimed that Uriah Johnston, Anna Johnston, Alma Harder, John Johnston and Saloma Lind, owners of a farm adjoining the cemetery, took down the cemetery fence, allowed livestock to runn over and desecrate the graves and destroy cemetery shrubbery, and that they also carried off and used or sold the remains of a church building that stood on the same plot of ground. the trustees asked that Johnston, who operates the farm, be restrained from using the cemetery grounds for his own purposes, that the grounds be restored to the Association, and tht damages be allowed for destruction of the fence and for the building materials carried away.
Total damages allowed the association were around $500 on all counts. The cemetery will again be fenced and Johnston not allowed to use it.
Johnston, in his defense, contended that since the original land for the church and cemetery came from the farm he now operates, he had a right to both use of the land and the materials remaining in the abandoned church building, after it had cesaed to be regularly used.
In Monroe County there are dozens of old cemeteries that have been turned back into pasture of crop land, in many of which the gravestones have disappeared. Failure to keep these fenced and in conditions is in most cases due to lack of interest on the part of the surviving relatives, of to lack of any surviving relatives of those buried there.
Monroe County Appeal, Paris, Missouri, September 17, 1947
(Contributed by Shelby County Historical Society)
Occupation: Farming
MO d/c 16777
Cemetery Trespass Case Tried at Paris
On a charge of venue from Shelby County, the case of William Glenn and other trustees of the New Providence Cemetery Assocition near Leonard, against Uriah Johnston and others, was tried in Monroe Circuit Court, with damages allowed the plaintiffs.
The case was an unusual one and of interest to all those whe have persons buried in now abandoned cemeteries.
In the original petiton, the cemetery trustees claimed that Uriah Johnston, Anna Johnston, Alma Harder, John Johnston and Saloma Lind, owners of a farm adjoining the cemetery, took down the cemetery fence, allowed livestock to runn over and desecrate the graves and destroy cemetery shrubbery, and that they also carried off and used or sold the remains of a church building that stood on the same plot of ground. the trustees asked that Johnston, who operates the farm, be restrained from using the cemetery grounds for his own purposes, that the grounds be restored to the Association, and tht damages be allowed for destruction of the fence and for the building materials carried away.
Total damages allowed the association were around $500 on all counts. The cemetery will again be fenced and Johnston not allowed to use it.
Johnston, in his defense, contended that since the original land for the church and cemetery came from the farm he now operates, he had a right to both use of the land and the materials remaining in the abandoned church building, after it had cesaed to be regularly used.
In Monroe County there are dozens of old cemeteries that have been turned back into pasture of crop land, in many of which the gravestones have disappeared. Failure to keep these fenced and in conditions is in most cases due to lack of interest on the part of the surviving relatives, of to lack of any surviving relatives of those buried there.
Monroe County Appeal, Paris, Missouri, September 17, 1947
(Contributed by Shelby County Historical Society)
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