Pike County Cemeteries
Calumet Township

In these cemeteries are buried victims of Indian massacres, Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers, statesmen, legislators and community leaders. Pike County was a stepping off place for the great migration to the west. It, therefore, offers a wealth of information for those interested in the genealogy of their family. Most of the cemeteries in Pike County have been cataloged by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Pike County Chapter. The catalogs are available in each of the Pike County libraries.

There are, according to some genealogists, some 280 cemeteries in Pike County. One individual who, with his wife, concentrates on the small cemeteries says there are over 1,200 cemeteries in the county. As more info, pictures and time becomes available they will be added to this list. Please feel free to forward any information to Rhonda Stolte Darnell. 

Thanks to Steven Watts who came up with quite a few publication/microfilm reel numbers for cemeteries. These will be added on a line named Inscription. Microfilm can be viewed at nearly 1600 branch libraries of the Family History Library. The database for other County cemeteries can be found at http://www.ancestry.com.

The numbers you see listed with some of the cemeteries (e.g. T 52N R 2W Section 7) indicate the page of the platt book and the square (section) on that page in which you can find the cemetery.

Limited tombstone pictures are now available. This project was begun in August 2005, so you may expect more pictures to be added as they are acquired. Contributions are always welcome. If you have pictures you would like to share, forward them to Rhonda Stolte Darnell. Please include a transcription of the writing on the stone, where the stone is located, your name and a valid email address, in case she needs to contact you with questions. No stones representing living people, please.

BELL-GIBSON

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 28
Directions: Adjoins Grimes Cemetery. South of Paynesville on W, turn right on Co. Rd 223 and go down the hill. The cemetery is off to the right two fields. You can see it from the road, but it's a walk. In a field with a rock wall around it.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 - (1983); FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 24
Directions: This cemetery is in the back of a house and farm building off State Road H on the 2nd county road that turns north just west of Annada 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 - 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 20
Directions: From Clarksville follow State Road W about 2 miles south on Indian Hill Farm (survey 1709)
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 - 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 29 E.
Directions: 3 Miles south of Clarksville 1 mile west and1 mile north of State Road WW East of Clopton High School on a farm 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - On the Ralph Mackey farm. It is only a pile of stones. The stones for Parson Brown and his wife, Orpha were found. (1976).

BUCKSKIN (Dundee)

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1W Section 12 S. - Hwy 79 north of Clarksville. On Holcim (formerly known as Dundee) Cement Company property. 
Directions: If interested in viewing this cemetery, please contact Holcim (formerly known as Dundee) Cement Company, 573/242-3571 for both permission and directions.
Notes: Slave graves
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 14 S. - On the Ralph Stone farm
Notes:  As of 1976, this cemetery has two stones, James Carver and his wife Nancy. 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1W Section 35
Directions: Turn off Hwy 79 just north of Clarksville on State Road N. Then off State Road N on 3rd county road past the Old Corinth Church (Co Rd 433). About 2 blocks or 0.5 mile south to cemetery on a gravel road.  Cross the creek and go uphill. It will be on the right.
Notes: This cemetery is maintained by the Corinth Cemetery Association and is in very good condition with a chain link fence around it. The first grave was Argha (Peg-leg) Worsham 1874. The last interment was Ruben White in 1971. Among the names of those buried at Corinth are Burroughs, Royalty, Browning, McLoed, Kelly, Turner, Elliott, Triplett, Tillett, Elgin, Reneau, Boyd, Estes, Blackwell, Wigginton, Van Cleaver, Campbell and Mackey.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1W Section 33
Directions: Dover cemetery is located about one fourth mile south of the church just a short distance off State Road D. 
Notes: This cemetery was established before the church, which was organized in 1862. The land was given by Jim Goodman. The Dover Cemetery Association was organized in 1945 and the cemetery is kept in excellent condition at all times.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp -  T52N R1E Section 8
Directions: Just off State Road W by Ramsey Creek Baptist Church 
Notes: This cemetery is fenced and locked. During the life of Mr. Charlie Eastin he had it mowed, but as of 1976 it had not been cared for in many years.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 29 N.
Directions: on Hwy W south of Paynesville turn right on Co Rd, 223 you turn up the lane at 29972 Dorothy Reed's place the cemetery is on the right up by the house.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 29
Directions: on Hwy H before Paynesville. behind the Paynesville school house 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 21
Directions: Follow State Road W about a half mile southwest of Clarksville, the cemetery is on the right
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 23
Directions: Adjoins Bell-Gibson Cemetery. South of Paynesville on W, turn right on Co. Rd 223 and go down the hill. The cemetery is off to the right two fields. You can see it from the road, but it's a walk. In a field with a rock wall around it.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 32
Directions: This cemetery is located on the Pike/ Lincoln county line west of State Road W south of Paynesville. Turn right on Hall Rd. and go west until you come to an A-frame house. The cemetery is next to the road in woods before house on the right. 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 34
Directions: 1.5 miles east of Sledd, south of Paynesville on Gunn Farm -- go south of Paynesville on W to funny shaped house. Just past house on left is a field. You have to travel the fields east to get to it.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 9 S.
Directions: Take State Road W south out of Paynesville about 0.6 mile to 1st gravel crossroad (Co. Rd 223). Turn right and go west up hill until the road "T"s with another crossroad that goes south. Just before the "T" you will see an old barn on the left up the hill near the fence row. The cemetery in back of barn.  
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp
Directions: From Louisiana, take US 79 north to State T. East side of 79.

JUMP

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1W Section 20
Directions: Follow Route D north of Eolia 6 miles to Charles Drury Farm. Cemetery is 1 mile west of Route D in a field.
Census: USGenWeb

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 12
Directions: 31/2 Mile south of Clarksville 1/2 mile west of Hwy 79.  The Kissenger family cemetery is on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Omohundro. 
Notes: There is a rock wall, with iron gate around the main cemetery, where the family are buried and many graves around the outside of the wall where the slaves were buried.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

MACKEY (Dundee)

Location: Calumet Twp - Hwy 79 north of Clarksville. On Holcim (formerly known as Dundee) Cement Company property. T53N R1W Section 12 N.
Directions: If interested in viewing this cemetery, please contact Holcim (formerly known as Dundee) Cement Company, 573/242-3571 for both permission and directions.
Notes: There is a fence around it, but it is not kept up.
Inscription Sources: The Pikers 3:1 (Mar 1989); Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 17 
Directions: 3 1/2 miles NW of Paynesville on the Old Potter Farm. On the hillside on the back of Indian Hill Farm near where Reuben McDannold settled in 1835.
Notes: There is a rock fence around it with iron gates. When Judge Newton McDannold settled his father's estate he bought the iron gate with the money left after dividing the property with a large family.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; Missouri Miscellany Vol. 11; Missouri Pioneers of Pike County Vol. 11; FHL fiche 6104194

MERRITT

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 35
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1-2E Section 29 S.
Directions: 50 yards North from Merritt Cemetery 
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

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Location: Calumet Twp
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 9
Directions: From Clarksville, take State Road W west to 0.5 miles past State Road WW. The cemetery is located behind the church located on State Road W about 2 miles north of Paynesville
Notes:  Used through the years on the church side by white people and on the other side by blacks. There are no records of who is buried there and very few have been buried there in recent years.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 20
Directions: on Hwy H west of Paynesville @ 29328 Hwy H. Park @gate on Old Sitton Farm up half way to house on the left in the fence row.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T53N R1W Section 32 - One stone in the middle of a cornfield.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - Possibly located in T53N R1W Section 17 - northwest part.
Directions: Take Hwy 61 South to State Road WW, turn left, follow State Road WW to State Road D, turn left, the cemetery is about 1 mile north of Calumet on a wooded rise. The cemetery is on Hwy D north of Dover on right before town of Stark
Notes: In 1984 the cemetery was in fairly good condition considering its age.
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

Location: Calumet Twp - T52N R1E Section 14 N.
Directions: From Paynesville take State Road W north -- From Clarksville take State Road W south -- cemetery is south of Ramsey Creek Church
Inscription Sources: Pike Co. Mo. DAR Vol. 2 1983; FHL fiche 6104194

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