Douglas Cemetery
92nd Street & Charlotte
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
This very small cemetery is a perfect example of why it's so important to document cemeteries. It is a vanishing cemetery. When I surveyed it in October 2000, there were only a few legible markers. None had escaped some sort of vandalism.
To reach the cemetery, turn east on 92nd Street off Holmes and travel about 1/8 mile. There is an opening in the brush on the left before the road ends and you can see the cemetery. We were able to drive up to the cemetery, as the ground was level and dry.
Some major plumbing work was going on in the neighborhood and there was lots of equipment and piping to be seen on the road. A handpainted wooden sign announced that we had arrived at "Douglas Cemetery."
Although there once had been some very fine stones, only a couple of granite stones remained that were still intact. One defied vandals attempts to mar it -- it was just too hard to scratch very much. There were a number of bases, broken stones, and rocks which once may have been markers. There were two or three deep depressions, which suggested loved ones had been removed to other locations. (Perhaps the bases were left and stones removed for others?)
At the entrance to the cemetery, within pieces of the original fence, was a concrete pad of about 10' x 12' which may have been a chapel of some sort. A sidewalk led from the cemetery to a large tree toward the north end of the cemetery, which may have once led to a church or perhaps a home.
ARN, Cornelius - 15 Aug 1841 - 21 Jul 1880
ARN Albert - d. 21 Nov 1900, 2y
UNKNOWN, Aug... d. 21 Jul 1880, 41y 11m 6d (broken stone)
DOUGLASS, Albin - 28 Dec 1841-27 Jun 1916 "Father"
(ss/w Amanda Douglass)
DOUGLASS, Amanda - 3 Sep 1843-14 Mar 1880
(ss/w Albin Douglass) "His Wife" "Mother"
DOUGLASS, William - d. 20 Mar 1886, 72y 4m 11d
STUKESBERRY, Nancy d. 27 Sep 1877, 20y
MacDONALD, Mary - 15 Mar 1812-10 Mar 1888
UNKNOWN, H.D.A. (footstone next to a base)
SMITH, A. C. - 1856-1918 "Mother" "At Rest"
SMITH, R. H. - 13 Jun 1849-4 Jan 1910 "Husband"
Of the above stones, the Smith stones are together, but knocked over, and the 3 Douglass stones are together. The others are scattered around the cemetery. Only Nancy Stutesberry's stone seems to be relatively unharmed and upright.
Margaret Richardson Bates
October 2000
Grange Cemetery
Sometimes called Douglas Cemetery
Section 28-29, Township 48, Range 33
92nd and Troost Avenue
The following survey was taken at an unknown time, probably in the 1950s or 1960s, when a larger number of graves were still intact. It may help descendants pinpoint a burial, even though a headstone no longer exists, or even if the loved one was relocated to another cemetery.
Agers, Moses, b: 1837, d: 1890
Agers, J. R., son of Moses Agers, b: 1871, d: 1893
Agers, S. A., son of Moses Agers, b: 1878, d: 1890
Amidon, Hattie D., daughter of M. L. and Sarah C. Amidon, d: May 27, 1889; age: 20 years, 5 months
Amidon, Mamie, daughter of M. L. and Sarah C. Amidon, d: May 2, 1884; age: 12 years, 1 month
Arn, Cornelius, b: Aug. 15, 1841, d: July 21, 1880; age: 41 years, 11 months, 6 days.
(NOTE: Inscription on head stone copied exactly as it appeared.
Age and dates do not coincide).
The monument has the following:
Cornelius Arn, b: Aug. 15, 1900; age: 20 years
Arn, Albert, d: Nov. 12, 1900; age: 20 years
Arn, Emma, b: April 6, 1846, d: Feb. 13, 1904
Douglas, Albin, b: Dec. 28, 1841, d: June 27, 1916
Douglas, Amanda, wife of Albin Douglas, b: Sept. 5, 1843, d: March 14, 1880; N. B. The seond burial in the cemetery.
Douglas, J. D., son of Albin and Amanda Douglas, d: March 11, 1883; age: 3 years, 3 months
Douglas, William, d: March 20, 1886; age: 72 years, 4 months, 11 days
Douglas, Emily Dooley, wife of William Douglas, buried by the side of her husband but no stone (information by a grandson)
Jones, Rachel, wife of James Jones, b: Feb. 1814, d: Nov. 30, 1881
Lee, M. B., husband of Lizzie Lee, b: Nov. 28, 1861, d: Feb. 20, 1899
Lee, Lizzie E., wife of M. B. Lee, b: Feb. 22, 1861, d: Oct. 24, 1904
Lee, Geroge R., son of W. R. and Hattie Lee, b: March, 1894, d: March 3, 1902
MacDonald, Mary, b: March 15, 1812, d: March 10, 1888
Ricketts, William, d: May 25, 1881; age: 76 years, 6 months, 19 days
Spruill, Dr. A. B., d: Sept. 8, 1889; age 65 years
Spruill, Martha E., wife of Dr. A. B. Spruill, d: July 2, 1903; age: 80 years
Spruill, James B., son of A. B. and M. E. Spruill, d: Oct. 6, 1889; age: 37 years
Spruill, Willie Alvah, child of C. B. and Anna Spruill, d: Aug. 9, 1897; age: 1 year, 2 months, 9 days
Smith, R. H., b: Jan. 13, 1849, d: Jan. 4, 1910
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