Potosi City Cemetery

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Potosi City Cemetery is in foreground & going to the right of the picture. There are very
few tombstones left in the City Cemetery.  Moses Austin's tomb is at left under the pavilion.   Taken from Breton street looking toward High Street (Hwy.8). 


In 1831 William Milam proposed to donate to the citizens of Potosi a lot between Breton & High Streets for a cemetery & subscription was at once commenced to raise funds to clear & fence the lot..........On the 29th of March 1842 a meeting of the subscribers was held.....a deed was obtained & the lot afterward cleared & fitted up for a cemetery.  It adjoins the Presbyterian Church & also the cemetery...........belonging to the Masonic Hall Association.

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Potosi City Cemetery taken from High Street (Hwy.8).  City Cemetery starts from the left of the church & goes to the far left of picture to the edge of the houses. Presbyterian Cemetery is behind the church & Masonic Cemetery is to the right of the church.

All the pictures below were photographed August, 2005 unless otherwise specified.
There are probably more in tombstones still in the cemetery
that have fallen & are overgrown with grass.

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Andrew Settle

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Seuel  Ford Roberts

 

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Dallas & Fanny Kindell

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Unknown

 

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Susan Hord Brickey

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Unknown

 

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Frances Kate Bell

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A different view of tombstone Frances Kate Bell

 

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Unknown

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Unknown

 

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John Parkinson

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Margaret Cook

 

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Catherine Bell

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A full view of the Catherine Bell tombsone

 

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Charles Downie

 

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Fanny Brinker

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James Puckett

 

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Austin H. Hawkins son of Revolutionary War soldier John Hawkins.  Photographed:  1986.

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Virginia Stevenson

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John R. Myers was an 1812 veteran who was shot by Confederate soldiers during Price's Raid through Washington County in 1864.  Photographed: 21Jan2002

 

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Johnson Thompson

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James Whittle

 

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William Taylor

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Brickey Plots - Photographed August, 2005


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Inside the stone wall (above left) were the tombstones (above right) of Jno. S. Brickey born in Virginia, Nov. 2, 1791 died in St. Louis, May 24, 1872 & Isabella Hord born in Kentucky, _ _, 1782 & died in Potosi, Feb. 2, 1856.  Photographed: 2002


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Brickey Plots

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Photographed: Nov. 2006


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