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Mount Mora Cemetery

Historic cemetery in Buchanan County, Missouri, US

United States historic place


Mount Mora Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Entrance on Mount Mora Street
39°46′33″N 94°50′31″W / 39.77583°N 94.84194°W / 39.77583; -94.84194
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Architect	Powell, W. Angelo; Noyes, John
Architectural style	Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	06000626^[1]
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

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

^ ^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.