Woods
Cemetery
Located NE3/4 of SW1/4 of section 60, township 57,
range 31,
on farm of the late Mrs. William Irminger, 1 1/2
miles southeast of Liberty.
Name: William Wood
Birth Date: 29 Nov 1770
Death Date: 1835
Comment: stone gone, in Albemarle county, Virginia,
son of Isaac Wood and Susanna Grayson,
moved to Clay county, Mo., in 1832.
This same year he purchased a large tract
of school land southeast of Liberty.
The Wood family were not destined to enjoy their
Missouri home for long. William Wood died in the
early fall of 1835 of malaria; his wife, Sarah,
following him in a few weeks, stricken with the same
dread malady.
Through the courtesy of the late Mrs. William
Irminger, who subsequently became owner of the Wood
farm, I obtained information of the Wood burial
ground. The cemetery is about one hundred feet to the
right of the house as it faces the main highway.
But, there is nothing now to indicate this sacred
spot of pioneer dust. The little fence that once
surrounded it has been removed, also all the white
Italian marble headstones, that once marked the
different graves that laid out under the protecting
arms of a tree. The ground has been plowed over, and
when I saw it some years ago all that remained was
the stump of this tree.
A sad picture, but the march of time and progress
seems to level all things, and those who laid the
foundation of our great country, have passed into the
forgotten realm.
In my search over the place I found quite a few of
the headstones, though some were broken and not easy
to decipher. Here is the list of those I found,
though there were others, I was told, but could not
find them.
Name: Nancy
Death Date: 04 Aug 1852
Age: 65 years, 5 months and 25 days
Comment: wife of Joseph H. Lewis
Name: Virginia M.
Death Date: 21 Feb 1861
Age: 21 years and 9 months
Comment: wife of George T. Lincoln
Unknown person. "Killed by ruthless soldiers
July 1864." The top of the above stone was
broken off.
Name: Sarah A.
Death Date: 12 Jan 1861
Age: 27 years, 5 months, 10 days
Comment: daughter of George M. and E. Pryor
Name: William Wood
Birth Date: 29 Nov 1770
Death Date: 1825
Name: Sarah
Death Date: 01 Oct 1835
Age: 60 years
Comment: wife of William Wood;
Note: Miss Virginia Stewart had this stone set up
in Mt. Memorial cemetery, Liberty, Mo. In resetting
stone
some of the inscription had to be covered up
Name: Isabella Wood
Death Date: Jun
Comment: daughter of Richard Perry Wood
and wife, Angeline; died in June (stone broken off)
Name: Isaac Newton
Death Date: 23 Sep 1844
Age: 1 year, 4 months
Comment: son of Richard Perry Wood and Angeline Wood
The above information given by
Miss Virginia Stewart, Kansas City, July 1944.
Miss Stewart is a descendant of William and Sarah
Wood.
Many graveyards on farms in Clay county, Mo.,
are found in this condition.-E. McKinley.
July 4, 1946
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