Does anyone know anything about these Jackson County pioneers buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery near Martin City?

Bart, Faldine

Baxter, Peter Howard, born 1837, died 1898

Barger, Elizabeth, born April 15, 1830, died January 9, 1894

Barger, James, son of H. and E. Barger, born May 22,1867, died March 6, 1870

Barger, Marietta, wife of Henry Barger, died September 12, 1864

Barager, Henry, died June 19, 1878 (Note the difference in spelling the name of members of the same family)

DeLong, Martha K., died November 19, 1860

Harris, ("Granny") Phoebe, wife of Richard Harris, born 1799, died 1887. Information given by Urial Holmes, grandson. Her maiden name was Harris also. Her husband, Richard Harris, went to Tennessee from Virginia in 1827 and died in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Holmes, Urial, born October 5, 1811, died July 27, 1855

Holmes, Sallie E. J., wife of U. Holmes, born Jan 26, 1821, died March 1, 1870

Holmes, Mary V., Daughter of H. H. and R. M. Holmes, died September 25, 1899

Hays, Albert E., son of W. L. and Mary Hays, born Sept. 15, 1886, died Oct. 8, 1888

Hays, William L., and wife, Mary Hays, died in 189-

King, William, died April 3, 1857

King, J. L., husband of Dora King, born Oct 18, 1846, died December 27, 1891

Knoche, Louis, son of E. and G. Knoche, born Jul 29, 1860, died Oct 1, 1871

Lee, Earl E., son of G. W. and Dora Lee, died July 8, 1906

Lee, Geo. W., died June 18, 1907

Miller, David S., born May 4, 1805, died February 17, 1879

Manion, James W., born January 5, 1804, died November 2, 1856

McGraw, Thomas W., born 1839, died 1930

McGraw, Jane, wife of Thomas W. McGraw, born 1845, died 1893

McGraw, Alonzo, born 1872, died 1889

McGraw, Thomas, born 1880, died 1897

McPherson, Edward, born December 20, 1809, died August 27, 1889

McPherson, Angeline, wife of Edward McPherson

McPherson, Lydia Bartlett, (first) wife of Albert McPherson, died 1877.

Almeda Treadway (Information given by Roy McPherson, a son)

Parsons, Baldwin, husband of Elizabeth Parsons, born May 12, 1803, died April 23, 1862

Townsley, Oma, daughter of Theo. And Sallie Townsley, died September 28, 1885

See, William M., son of J. and N. See, died July 5, 1849 (This young man died while enroute west with his parents in 1849. This cemetery is a short distance from the old Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail.

Savage, Nellie May, daughter of F. C. and S. Savage, died January 29, 1890

Shelton, John, born October 1788, died April 25, 1854

Shelton, Mary, wife of John Shelton, died December 18, 1878

Shelton, John E., son of J. and M. Shelton, born December 14, 1835, died March 30, 1840

Shelton, Alvis H., son of J. and M. Shelton, born April 23, 1824, died January 21, 1859

Sharp, T. B., born November 9, 1806, died February 18, 1889

Sharp, Bonnie, daughter of W. F. and C. Sharp, died April 20, 1890

Self, John F., born November 30, 1803, died February 1, 1889

Watson, Dr. John E., born in Pennsylvania, November 26, 1834, died October 1, 1881

Wisdom, Jane, wife of G. W. Wisdom, died March 5, 1876

It is near Martin City on E 125th Terrace, just off Wornall Road. I put up a web site about this cemetery in 1999. Check it out at: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~dcvolts/
Recently the land around the cemetery was sold to a housing development company and homes have been built all around the cemetery. Some of the workers must not have realized this cemetery was there. They probably thought is was just an empty lot, they dumped some of their building materials trash on it, so this needs to be removed too. This cemetery has suffered from neglect, vandalism and inaccessibility for a hundred years. The first known burial here was in 1840. The last known burial was in 1930. It is a very small cemetery with only about 45 burials. Only about half of these have tombstones remaining. My third great grandfather, John F Self, who died in 1889 is buried there.
-Doug Vaughn.