Clay County Cemetery Records,
Volume II

Source: Ancestry.com

John H. Price Cemetery

One-half mile west of Woodland school house,
farm now owned by William George. Homestead
of 360 acres entered by John H. Price.
Contributed by Mrs. Charley Brown, greatgrand-daughter
of John H. Price, August, 1947.
Nothing remains of this graveyard. Records taken from
Price family Bible. D. A. R. Society appreciates
these records contributed by Mrs. Charley Brown.


Name: Lena Price Chase
Birth Date: 18 Jul 1873
Death Date: 08 Apr 1875

Name: Sarah Price Chase
Birth Date: 29 Mar 1947
Death Date: 25 Oct 1873

Name: Aileen McCarty
Birth Date: 21 Mar 1878
Death Date: 13 Jul 1879

Name: Sadie Chase McCarty
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1874
Death Date: 07 Jul 1876

Name: Martha Price McCarty
Birth Date: 05 Mar 1844
Death Date: 10 Apr 1884

Name: Andrew Jeckson Price
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1851
Death Date: 01 Oct 1856

Name: John H. Price
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1809
Death Date: 22 Jan 1881
Comment: Married in Kentucky, 07 Nov 1938

Name: Price
Comment: wife of John H. Price buried years later in Fairview, Liberty, Mo.

Name: Isaac Price
Birth Date: 04 Feb 1842
Death Date: 06 Mar 1886

This week's graveyard records from the D.A.R. historian are the first in a series from the Muddy Fork cemetery. This cemtery will be 97 years old October 2, 1947, according to an article by the Rev. C. V. Froman, of Excelsior Springs, which was published in the 1946 Clay-Ray Life edition of the Daily Standard.

The following is an excerpt from the Rev. Froman's recollections about the cemetery:

"This historic old pioneer cemetery has back of its origin the story of two remarkable men: Ryland Shackelford of Kentucky, who came to Clay County in 1830, and Joseph Scudder, of New Jersey, who came to this county about 1836.

Both were outstanding leaders, men of education, ability, force, character, wealth, and position. They were stanch Old School Presbyterians for over 40 years charter members of Bethel Presbyterian church at its organization in 1842, and were closely associated in church life for more than 30 years. The two men were also connected by ties of marriage. Ryland Shackleford himself and Silence Jane Scudder, a daughter of Joseph Scudder, both marrying into the same family.

As early as 1845 there was evidently a group of Old School Presbyterians in the country some four miles north of Kearney, who apparently were holding their religious services in the Muddy Fork school house. They were trying to organize their group into a congre-gation in 1849, but something delayed their work.

Some time between April and June, 1850, they were organized into the Clear Fork Presbyterian church, named after the west branch of Clear creek, and Ryland Shackelford and Joseph Scudder were elected elders of this church, positions they held for many years. On October 2, 1850, Shackelford and Scudder brought one acre of ground from James Shackelford, a brother of Ryland Shackelford. A church building was built on the site and a cemetery started This acre lies in the center of Muddy Ford cemetery. In 1855 Shackelford and Scudder brought another strip of adjoining land for cemetery purposes, and in 1870 the same two men bought another piece of ground and added it to the burial ground."

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