Forest Cemetery Association Records

Collection

Identifier: MS F1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Records for Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery and the "Old" City Cemetery. These records include: (1) the Forest Cemetery Association Minute Book, 1940-1962, 1964, 1974; (2) the Forest Cemetery Association Payment Records, 1926-1951; (3) the Cemetery Records of Kirksville Cemetery, 1880-1895, 1904-05, 1932-52; (4) and the Llewellyn Cemetery Register, 1832 (1880s-1910s), 1950.

Dates

Creation: 1880-1950

Creator

Laughlin, Viola Elizabeth, 1921-2007 (Person)

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Biographical / Historical

Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery in Kirksville, Missouri has been the city's public burial ground since the 1840s. The Forest Cemetery Association was originally organized in 1906 for the purpose of caring for Forest, the adjacent Llewellyn Cemetery, and all additions to either. Mrs. Elizabeth Laughlin was President of the Association in 1975 when it created an endowed maintenance fund with the balance of the treasury then turned it and responsibility for the cemetery over to the City of Kirksville.

Extent

4 ledgers

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is organized into four series.

Forest Cemetery Association Minute Book, 1940-1962,1964, 1974
Forest Cemetery Association Payment Records, 1926-1951
Cemetery Records of Kirksville Cemetery, 1880-1895,1904-1905, 1932-1952
Llewellyn Cemetery Register, 1832,1880s-1910s, 1950

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Elizabeth (Mrs. George Andrew) Laughlin used the Association's records to compile Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery (1976, revised 1983), a survey of the grave markers and burial records of Forest-Llewellyn, and all its various sections: Eggert-Llewellyn, Llewellyn (Sections A-G), Beemer, Oakland, Potter's Field, Slingerland, Forest (Sections A-D), Sherwood, Old (Kirksville) Cemetery.

She donated the Association records in her possession to Pickler Memorial Library after completing the revision of her book. Mrs. Laughlin notes in the introduction to the revised edition that two volumes of old Sexton's records (Series 3 and Series 4) were discovered in 1977, after the book was first published. Not all entries in these old records were included in the revision, however.