Ray County, Missouri, Genealogy Resources, Crooked River Township

Louis Bohannon Family Cemetery
More Photos	#13 on Crooked River Twp Map

Name of Cemetery	Bohannon Cemetery
Township	Crooked River Twp
Cemetery #	#213
Alternate Names	Morton Cemetery
Latitude/Longitude	Latitude: 39°19'45.00"N; Longitude: 93°51'29.00"W
Township/Range/Section	T52R26S07
Cemetery Still in Use	No
Size of Cemetery	5 known stones & probably other burials
Condition	Cemetery is in a weeded area in the middle of the field. There is no fence and it is not maintained. The tall monument that was noted in earlier years is now laying down on the ground. There are no trees as mentioned earlier; they must have been dozed over because there was a pile of trees about 200 yards southeast of this area. (2008)
Range of Burial Dates
	Oldest Known Stone:	Paralee Bohannon d. January 22, 1873
	Last Known Burial	Infant Hambright d. November 21, 1913 (stone) The death certificate for Sarah Bohannon d. November 27, 1917 indicates she was buried in Morton Cemetery, but it is probably Bohannon Cemetery since there is no "Morton Cemetery. The death certificate for Simeon Bohannon d. July 22, 1934 indicates he was buried in the "Family Cemetery"; not sure if they mean this cemetery?
Visited yet?	CC - yes................ JZ - yes...........anyone else - yes/no
Location/Directions/Comments
	Most recent directions	From the intersection of Hwy "E" and Hwy "A" travel west on Hwy "E" 7/10 miles. Turn south on a gravel road (not marked) and travel for about 100 yards and park. Walk straight west through the field to the gravestones. The cemetery lays about 200 yards west of the gravel road and about 100 yards south of Hwy "E".
	1973 Ray County History; p. 230	not shown
	1973 Ray County History; p. 232; Cemeteries Not Listed on Map	#14; near Morton, known as the Hontas Nelson farm [cc. comment: can't locate this farm on a plat map]
	Big Black Cemetery Binder	first typed sheet in Ref 929.3 RAY: located on Millard Frazier farm north of Morton, just south of Route E in NW 1/4, SE 1/4, T52 R26 S7. Old fence around small plot in center of a field with large trees, some down, on graves. second typed sheet in Ref 929.3 RAY: located about a mile directly north of Morton Church on E, turn east 1/8 mile to top of hill, on the south side of the road. It is off the road in a field, in a fenced area containing two large trees. There are five marked graves. A tall monument has two inscriptions. The others are on the ground.
	Ancestry.com	xxxx
	DAR Index:	Located north of Hardin on Route A, go about 4 miles then turn west on Highway E. Cemetery is about a mile, just before turn in the road, on the south side about 100 yards in the field
	LS info	xxx
	Other Comments	Louis C. Bohannon's biography appears in History of Ray County, 1881, page 800 - 801
Plat Maps	year	marked?	who's land?
T/R/S	1877	no	L. C. Bohannan
	1897	no	Sim. Bohanan
	1914	no	Sim. Bohannon
	1930	no	S. Bohanon
	1970	no	M. & F. Frazier
	1976	no	M. & F. Frazier
	1997	no	Millard Frazier
	2005	no	Cecil King
Transcriptions online:
	GTT online
	Ray County Archives
	Ancestry.com
	Find-A-Grave
	Other Online Link
Compilations	xxxx
Library References
	Genealogical Library - Ray County Museum
	Ray County Library - Richmond	Ray REF 929.3 RAY
	Mid-Continent Library
	Family History Library (FHL)
Lookups	xxxx
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