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December 1922 (16)
October/3/1921 (1)
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Cemeteries (4)
Porter, Elizabeth (3)
Porter, James (3)
Union Cemetery (3)
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1. Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy December 1922 Description of part of the Isaac McCoy farm set apart as the McCoy cemetery, labeled as part of Union Cemetery on the local history index card.
2. Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy October/3/1921 Mention of James Porter as purchaser of a farm from Isaac McCoy on land between "about 33rd street, on the south, extending north almost to the Union Cemetery; and from Main on the west, to about Locust...
3. Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy October 3, 1921 Description of the land owned by Reverend Isaac McCoy as his first farm and burial site for his wife, Christiana McCoy, and other family members. According to the local history index card, all a part of...
4. Looking Backward Looking Backward December 1922 Description of Union Cemetery by Daniel Geary, co-founder of the cemetery, where the first interment was made in 1858.
5. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Mention of Benjamin Jaudon, born in 1796, in a listing of people interred at the Union Cemetery "born in the 18th Century [sic]," including also William Gillis (1792), John Harris (1795), Colonel W. M....
6. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Original interments into the supposed first Kansas City cemetery, starting with Elizabeth Porter (1750-1845) and including William Chick (1794-1847).
7. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Mention of the burial sites of George Caleb Bingham, "Kansas City's first artist, a man of national renown," missionary Dr. Johnston Lykins, and wife of both, Mrs. George C. (Mattie) Bingham, at Union...
8. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Description of Milton Payne, Kansas City's third legal mayor succeeding John Johnson in 1855 and buried in an unmark grave (similarly to Nehemiah Holmes) in Union Cemetery. Description of Payne also as...
9. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Brief descripton of John Johnson, second legal mayor of Kansas City for about a month in 1855 before being succeeded by Milton Payne.
10. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 One brief paragraph about "[t]wo pioneer physicians of Westport," Dr. Henry Foote Hereford, or Henry Hereford, and Dr. Joel Morris.
11. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Listing of people "born in the 18th Century" and buried in Union Cemetery including Richard Simpson (born in 1770), Mrs. Elizabeth Porter (born in 1750), Reverend James Porter (born in 1786), and Mrs....
12. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Description of members of the local Porter family interred at Union Cemetery, including Elizabeth Porter (1750-1845), a native of Ireland and widow of Samuel Porter, her son Reverend James Porter (1786-1851),...
13. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Mention of Mrs. Gerald Hughes, Sr., of 4333 Charlotte Street, a granddaughter of Rebecca Littrell Metcalf, or Rebecca Metcalf ("born in Winchester, Virginia, July 4, 1776").
14. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 One paragraph about four interments at Union Cemetery, all "members of the original Town-site Company [sic]," including John McCoy, Jacob Ragan, William Gillis, and William Chick.
15. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Listing of Stephen Maughs (born in 1776), Mrs. Rebecca Metcalf (born in 1776), and Dr. Joshua Norton (born in 1796), et al., as Union Cemetery interments born in the 18th century.
16. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Mention of "a child of Clara Gregory Cannon, [or Clara Cannon] whose mother was Mr. [William S.] Gregory's second wife," buried in Union Cemetery. Also in the same paragraph a description of Eliza Gregory...
17. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Mention of the "John Campbell lot" at Union Cemetery, evidently the burial place for William Gillis, Michael Dively, and Alexander Majors.
18. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery December 1922 Brief description of W. Ewing Hall, buried in Union Cemetery and for "many years a well-known attorney of this city who married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Porter."