List of cemeteries in Kansas

This is a listing of cemeteries in the U.S. state of Kansas.

U.S. National Cemeteries

Kansas has three United States National Cemeteries which are all administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and overseen from the Leavenworth National Cemetery. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Cemetery Year Size Locality County Description Photograph
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Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery 1862 36.1 acres (146,000 m2) Fort Leavenworth Leavenworth Used as a burial ground as early as 1844, the cemetery has almost 23,000 interments. It is located near the center of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation. The cemetery has two large grave-markers that look like monuments for General Henry Leavenworth and Colonel Edward Hatch.[1]
Fort Scott National Cemetery 1862 21.8 acres (88,000 m2) Fort Scott Bourbon Originally named Presbyterian Graveyard when the land was purchased and maintained by the Presbyterian Church in 1861, the cemetery is the site of about 6,000 interments. It is located on the eastern outskirts of the city of Fort Scott. A granite monument was erected in 1984 in memory of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry.[2]
Leavenworth National Cemetery 1973 128.8 acres (0.521 km2) Leavenworth Leavenworth Located in southeast Leavenworth, the cemetery was designed concurrent to construction of the first buildings of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the first interment occurred in 1886. A limestone obelisk monument, dedicated in 1919, sits atop the crest of a hill in the highest ridge of the cemetery overlooking the Missouri River valley. The cemetery has more than 31,000 interments.[3]

Other cemeteries

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Cemetery Locality County Description Photograph
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Huron Cemetery Kansas City Wyandotte Established around 1843 and now known formally as the Wyandot National Burying Ground.
Little Walnut Glencoe Township Cemetery Between Leon and Beaumont Butler A small rural cemetery, go east on Highway 400 past Leon and before Beaumont, go north on S.E. Grey Road towards Rosalia
Oakwood Cemetery Parsons Labette The cemetery contains several Civil War memorials.
Old Mission Cemetery Wichita Sedgwick The Mausoleum located at the cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places
Stull Cemetery Stull Douglas A cemetery that has a reputation for being a gateway to Hell and a place that The Devil reportedly haunts.[4]
America City Cemetery Near Havensville Nemaha
Boy's Industrial School Cemetery Topeka Shawnee Originally named the State Reform School and later the State Industrial School for Boys, at Topeka.[5] A small cemetery containing the remains of 12 youths.
Vieux Family Cemetery Louisville Pottawatomie A small family cemetery along the Oregon Trail where Louis Vieux ran a river crossing.[6]
Oak Hill Cemetery Lawrence Douglas Quantrill raid victims, Langston Hughes' grandparents, and many war veterans; once called by William Allen White the "Kansas Arlington"[7]
Simerwell Cemetery Near Auburn Shawnee A rural cemetery where the first white female born in Kansas is buried.[8]
Sunset Cemetery Manhattan Riley Governor Nehemiah Green, Earl Woods, Samuel Wendell Williston, Solon Toothaker Kimball

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Cemetery Administration : Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery". Cem.va.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  2. ↑ "Fort Scott National Cemetery - National Cemetery Administration". Cem.va.gov. 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  3. ↑ "National Cemetery Administration : Leavenworth National Cemetery". Cem.va.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  4. ↑ Gintowt, Richard (2004-10-26). "Hell hath no fury". Lawrence.com. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  5. ↑ "EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11-40 NAMING THE BENNIE LEE GRAHAM MEMORIAL CEMETERY AT THE KANSAS JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX".
  6. ↑ "Flint Hills of Kansas Shopping, Dining, & Accommodations". Kansasflinthills.travel. 1998-07-21. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  7. ↑ "Oak Hill Cemetery · City of Lawrence, Kansas". Lawrenceks.org. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  8. ↑ "Simerwell Cemetery". Skyways.lib.ks.us. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
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