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OLD DONIPHAN CEMETERY

a/k/a PIONEER CEMETERY

Established 1847

Doniphan Ripley Co MO

Photo Credit Becky Pyland Davis

List compiled by Becky Pyland Davis

LOCATED IN DONIPHAN BEHIND THE HERITAGE PARK BY THE OLD PIONEER LOG CABIN AND BARN.  THE CEMETERY HAS BEEN CALLED THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY WHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED, THEN WHEN IT BECAME FULL IN 1897, MANY OF THE GRAVES WERE REMOVED AND TAKEN TO THE OAK RIDGE CEMETERY [NOW CALLED DONIPHAN CITY CEMETERY].