Cemetary Northwest of Howard

[CrumCowgirlMama]

Now you've got me crazily interested in the history of my area. Dan was here a while ago and I asked him about the church you mentioned. He told me it was on the north side of Rock (Cresco) Road, and now it's a hay field. But there is a well house there. I also read about some of the tornadoes in the area, most of them happened to be northwest of Howard...I sure hope that's just coincidence and I don't have to encounter one! Before we put our new house in out here, we lived out in the Busby area, in a house that Jerry and Norma Allen rent out. While living there, I witnessed one tornado, it was enough to last me a lifetime! Pretty scary being home alone with a baby! Billy was away at work. Needless to say, nothing was damaged and no one was hurt....just a little shook up!!

[Wilma]

Of course you have read about the tornado in Elk County in 1991.  There seems to be a path along the route of that one that most of the tornadoes take.  They can veer off either way and it seems to happen every few years.  My folks farm was hit several times.  Not seriously like total destruction, but damage.  Some years before 1947, a tornado took the barn and silo from across the road 1/2 mile south of them.  The one in 1991 skipped over that farm for a change.  I hope you have a shelter of some kind.

We were hit at Haysville in 1999.  All but one of our neighbors to the southeast of us lost everything.  The one neighbor had enough damage she couldn't live in her house and the neighbor to the east of us was damaged enough he had to leave, too.  We were lucky our house and buildings stood up to the storm and we didn't have to move out.  I think the tall trees softened the brunt of the storm and saved our buildings.  We lost about half of the big trees.  That is closer than I ever want to be to a tornado again.

[hhjacobs]

 The church set on the northwest coroner with the low water bridge just to the west of it. If I remember right.
I don't remember the name of it,but attended it a few times as a young lad. I don't think the well house was there  when the church was.
The road 14 used to go striaght south. The old school house is named Lower Paw Paw School.

[ddurbin]

This area of the county is unfamiliar to me, but in looking at the plat map of 1903 linked in Michael Glenn's post of Dec. 31, I'm wondering if the location of this cemetery would be on the west side of section 11.  There is a church and cemetery shown at that location.  Can anyone match up Road 14 with that map and determine if that's the correct spot or not?

[Wilma]

I thought that, too, but CrumCowgirl puts it a mile south of Sec. 11, which would be sec. 14.  I think she said the east side of the road.  Her new house is in sec. 11, just about where the church and cemetary were according to my map.  I am wondering if the location of the church and cemetary on the map is right.  It could have been a mile further south and I think that  I have found other errors on this map..

[Janet Harrington]

I would have to be shown the cemetery.  I don't think I have ever heard of it.  Out that way is Bunker Hill Cemetery.  That Cemetery is one mile south and about a half mile west and then a little bit north of where Dale Brenner lives.  That's the only one I can think of but Bunker Hill is about 2 to 3 miles west of where CrumCowGirl is talking about.  CCG, I think you will need to talk with Neva Walter and describe it to her.  She probably knows the name of it.

[Marcia Moore]

Hi -
    I have been in Topeka the last three days to look through Howard microfilm and photographs from this area at the Kansas State Historical Society.  While there, I checked out the Elk County Forum (which I must say I am getting very addicted to) and saw where some were wondering about the cemetery that sits at 1748 Road 18.  I wanted to reply, but could not remember my password so was unable to at the time.  
    This cemetery is the Fairview United Brethren Cemetery.  It is in dire need of maintenance.  I don't think the county or the township can step in and start taking care of the cemetery because it is on privately owned land, the landowner owning the land surrounding it, as well.  John and Sheila Dodds were the last to purchase the property, but John has since passed away and I think Sheila has remarried.  Keat Miller lives just across the fence north from the cemetery.  
    There were at least 29 people buried in the Fairview United Brethren Cemetery, a few of which were later disinterred and buried elsewhere.  

[Janet Harrington]

Sheila Dodds did remarry, but she divorced that man.  He recently committed suicide in her house on her place northwest of Howard.  Right at the moment I cannot remember her last name.  I'll do some looking.  I believe that she is still using Dodds and if we could contact her, I bet we could have access to that cemetery.  It would just be a matter of asking permission.

[Wilma]

I wanna go, too.  I wanna go.

[Marcia Moore]

If you are going to the cemetery, you ought to go before the rattlesnakes come out in a few weeks.