Old Sherman Hughes Farm Cemetery
(may be the old Jones/Hyatt Cemetery)

Directions: Hwy A. about 4 miles due west from Wheaton, Missouri on Hwy A. At the first sharp turn to the south,
on the right, is where the farm is located. The cemetery is in some trees in the middle of the field.

Transcription and photos submitted by Glenn Hoyt

I visited this cemetery with Floyd Hughes, whose father was Sherman Hughes. He remembers the cemetery when he was a young man growing up on the land, but he said even then it was an old graveyard. There were more stones standing back then, but now, not even one. After years of trees growing up, weather, cattle roaming within the confines, and who knows what else, there is little left but broken and weathered smooth stones. It looks like it may be that the Bullard family own or lived near that property in the 1840s and 1850s. Three of the four readable stones were of the Bullard name, the earliest dated 1844, the oldest found was 1857. Again, there are no stones standing and those on the ground are worn completely smooth and/or broken completely. The below transcribed stones were the only ones we found that had ANY writing on them. Below are the transcribed stones as I read them.     Glenn Hoyt

Photo	Name	Birth	Death	Comment
	McMahan, Lawrence M.	5 Dec 1839	24 Dec 1857	s/o John N. McMahan II & Nancy Cloud.  This stone was in the best shape and very readable. It was completely out of the ground and even had "Joplin Marble Works" inscribed on the bottom portion that would have been in the ground.
	Bullard, Bowyer	1 Oct 1803	19 Apr 1855	In Memory of
	Bullard, Christopher B.	1 Jan 1809	18 Oct 1844	s/o John Bullard & Nancy Agnes Kersey (Casey)
	Bullard, Parmelia HODGES	10 Jun 18?3	20 Mar 1858	w/o John Bullard, age 18yr ?mo 10d

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