Mount Mora Cemetery

	Mount Mora Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Entrance on Mount Mora Street
Location	824 Mount Mora Rd., St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates	39°46′33″N 94°50′31″W / 39.77583°N 94.84194°W
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Architect	Powell, W. Angelo; Noyes, John
Architectural style	Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	06000626
Added to NRHP	July 19, 2006

Mount Mora Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri. Among those who are buried in the cemetery are three governors, a U.S. senator, soldiers from both sides in the American Civil War and riders of the Pony Express.^[2] In October 2006, several headstones including that of Missouri governor Silas Woodson were damaged by vandals.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2006.^[1]

Notable interments[edit]

Daniel Dee Burnes (1851–1899) – US Representative
James N. Burnes (1827–1889) – US Representative
James Craig (1818–1888) – Civil War general and US Representative
Willard Preble Hall (1820-1882) – Governor of Missouri
Benjamin F. Loan (1819–1881) – US Representative and Union general
William Ridenbaugh (1821–1874) – St. Joseph Gazette founder
Robert Marcellus Stewart (1815–1871) – Governor of Missouri
M. Jeff Thompson (1826–1876) – Confederate general known as the "Swamp Fox"
Robert Wilson (1803–1870) – US Senator
Sir William Wiseman (1814–1874) – British Rear Admiral
Silas Woodson (1819–1896) – Governor of Missouri
Huston Wyeth (1863–1925) – industrialist

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Barbara Turner (January 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mount Mora Cemetery" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.

External links[edit]

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[DNR-2] Barbara Turner (January 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mount Mora Cemetery" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.

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