Ray County, Missouri, Genealogy Resources, Knoxville Township Rainwater Cemetery

Rainwater Cemetery
More Photos	#5 on Knoxville Township Map

Name of Cemetery	Rainwater Cemetery
Township	Knoxville Twp
Cemetery #	#505
Alternate Names	May Fields Rainwater Cemetery
Latitude/Longitude	Latitude: 39°28'46.16"N; Longitude: 93°59'28.05"W
Township/Range/Section	T54R28S24
Cemetery Still in Use	No
Size of Cemetery	Small - about 4 known burials
Condition	fenced and appeared to have been mowed
Range of Burial Dates
	Oldest Known Stone:	Mettie Rainwater d. May 15, 1886
	Last Known Burial	Moses T. Rainwater - d. 1954
Visited yet?	CC - yes................ JZ - yes...........anyone else - yes
Location/Directions/Comments
	Most recent directions	xxxx
	1973 Ray County History; p. 230	#5, the map of cemeteries shows Rainwater being further west than Section 20
	1973 Ray County History; p. 232; Cemeteries Not Listed on Map	#xx; description
	Big Black Cemetery Binder	Taitsville Road or Road V., south side of road
	Ancestry.com	Taitsville Road or Road V., south side of road
	DAR Index:	T54R27S20 (incorrect - should be T54R28S24)
	LS info	xxx
	Other Comments	Rainwater's owned land in T54R28S24 on earlier plat maps
Plat Maps	year	marked?	who's land?
T54R28S24	Original Land Entries	NW1/4NE1/4 (March 13, 1854)	William Taylor
	1877	no	J. C. Tiffin
	1897	no	John Rainwater
	1914	no	John Rainwater
	1930	no	J. Rainwater
	1959	no	Virgil Kelly
	1970	no	Wm. B. Clampitt
	1976	no	Wm. B. Clampitt
	1997	yes	William Clampitt
	2005	no	Michael Shepard
Transcriptions online:
	GTT online
	Ray County Archives
	Ancestry.com
	Find-A-Grave
	Other Online Link
Compilations	compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Juliette L. Smith and Mrs. Carlton Richardson Copied by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry and Julie Smith April 24, 1971 v. 2. Cummins, Holder, Kincaid, Knoxville, Linville, McVeigh, Petree, Petty, Rainwater, Sandals [Thomson], Sylar, Teegarden, Van Bebber, Yoakum cemeteries
Library References
	Genealogical Library - Ray County Museum
	Ray County Library - Richmond	Ray REF 929.3 RAY
	Mid-Continent Library
	Family History Library (FHL)	FHL 977.819 V3e v. 1-2
Lookups	xxxx
Ray County Cemetery Project Volunteers