Grant Township, Section 20, Township 55, Range 28
Located: 1 ¼ miles West of Polo on 116 Highway
There is nothing to indicate that there is a cemetery here.
Bertha Booth told senior folks of 31 historic sites in the county.
This was published in the Advocate-Hamiltonian newspaper, Hamilton, Missouri March 3, 1960
"In Grant Township lie buried a Revolutionary War Soldier and his wife (H.C. Conrad Farm), who died of typhoid fever."
From the roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors - 1976 the following:
THOMAS, Henry, Sr. born February 17, 1758 Amherst County, Virginia; died September 4, 1837 in Caldwell County, Missouri; married ca 1778 Rachel Stillwell, born 1759, died 1837 in Caldwell County, Missouri.
He was a private in the Virginia Continental lines 3 years. Enlisted in Captain Neal’s Company February 11, 1777 which was attached to the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment. Then served in Captain Uriah Springer’s Company of Colonel John Gibson’s Regiment. Discharged at Fort Pitt by Colonel Richard Campbell, March 1, 1780.
This page was last updated August 5, 2006.