(Also known as the Carr or Arey Cemetery)
Rockford Township -- Section 2, Township 55, Range 29
Located: 1.8 miles South of Mirabile on D blacktop, then east on gravel at curve for .7 mile. The cemetery is on the north side of the road, when you come to a T intersection.
It is hard to find families much older than the Hines family in Caldwell County. Old Wesley Hines entered land here in 1836, before the county was organized. His farm being SE of Mirabile in Rockford Township.
Wesley married Elizabeth Davis, the only sister of Albert G. Davis, founder of Hamilton, in Howard County, Mo. in 1818. It is possible that because of her, her two brothers, Albert G. & Thos. Coulson Davis, came here. Wesley (1795-1858) and his wife Elizabeth (1800-1875), as well as other members of the family were buried on their own land in what is called the Hines Cemetery. Probably, the first burial there, being an infant son of theirs; buried in 1842.
Humphrey Beckett (1813-1859), who had married Mary Elizabeth Hines, a daughter of Wesley, settled in this area about 1839 and both are buried along with several of their children, in this cemetery.
Another early settler, who is buried here is John C. Myers (1808-1862) who was a native of Pa. but came to Missouri in 1840. He was sheriff of the county when the second courthouse burned in Apr. 1860. Mr. Myers, sympathized with the confederate cause and went South. When he returned in the fall of 1862, the militia fired after him and he was shot down and killed, two miles south of Mirabile. His wife and family fled to Ind. until 1868, when they returned to the Cowgill area.
Other early settlers buried in this cemetery are:
Elijah Robison of Tennessee, ancestor of all the Robison in the area. He settled here in 1849 and died in 1872, aged 78 years. David A. Carr (1812-1857), Stephen Pollard (1812-1880) and T. Colson Davis.
AREY, Infant daughter, d. Jan. 9, 1881 aged 4d
Infant daugher, d. Dec. 27, 1882
Infant daughter, d. Oct. 1, 1886
Children of Geo. W. & Margaret E. Arey
BECKETT, Humphrey C., d. Sept. 4, 1859 aged 46y 4m 7d
Mary E., wife of Humphrey, d. Jul. 12, 1895 aged 70y 8m 11d
Samantha, d. 1871 aged 7y
Isophema F., d. Aug. 31, 1851 aged 5y
H., his child, d. 1849
Two other Beckett stones illegible through age.
CARR, David A., Mar. 26, 1812 May 15, 1857
Elizabeth, wife of D. A., d. Oct. 14, 1903 aged 91y 10m 25d
Cyrus G., d. May 14, 1884 aged 69y 9m 17d
David A., 1883-1892
DAVIS, T. Colson,
Mary, wife of T. C., 1812-1855
Louise, dau. of Mary & T. C. Davis
FARR, Infant, son of A. R. & S. J., d. Sept. 19, 1884
HILL, Fannie C., wife of Geo. W., May 4, 1853 Jun. 29, 1874
Children of M. E. & L. Hill
Katie F., d. Sept. 28, 1867 aged 2y 2m 13d
Mary A., d. Sept. 26, 1863 aged 13m
HINES, Wesley, who departed his life on the 28th day of Nov. A.D. 1858 in the 63rd yr. of his life
Elizabeth, wife of Wesley, d. Oct. 20, 1875 aged 75y 25d
Infant son of Wesley & Elizabeth, d. Sept. 12, 1842
Sarah L., wife of F. M., d. Oct. 19, 1864 aged 36y 9m 21d
Florence M., dau. of F. M. & S. L., d. Oct. 26, 1864 aged 9m 16d
W. P., d. Feb. 14, 1862 aged 38y 1m 13d
JONES, Infant of J. R. & Kittie, d. Mar. 20, 1869 aged 3d
LANE, Samuel R., d. Oct. 8, 1900 aged 81y 7m 16d
Mary M., wife of Saml. R., d. Dec. 15, 1875 aged 39y 12m 16d
Jas. Edward, son of S. R. & Mary, d. ca. 1901 aged 67y
MYERS, John C., d. Nov. 4, 1862 aged 54y 4m 17d
POLLARD, Stevin W., 1812-1880
Mary L, wife of S. W., d. Aug. 27, 1860 aged 52y 10m 29d
Sarah, wife of Samuel W., 1828-1864
John M., son of Samuel W. & Sarah Pollard,
Infant Son of W. M. & K. R., d. Aug. 12, 1883
Infant Dau. of Samuel & Rebecca, d. Oct. 31, 1870
ROBISON, Elijah, d. May 15, 1872 aged 78y 16d 5m
William S., son of J. & L., d. Aug. 18, 1873 aged 1y 8m 28d
STEELE, Mary Ann, consort of Wm. P., d. Apr. 1, 1854 aged 17y 1m 13d
Mary Ann, dau. of Wm. P. & Mary Ann, d. Apr. 22, 1854 aged 11m
This page was last updated August 5, 2006.