Prairie View Cemetery

Prairie View Cemetery

Prairie View Cemetery is in Big Creek Township, Neosho County, Kansas. It is located 6.5 miles east of Chanute on K-39 highway on the north side of the highway. This cemetery was started about 1875 on the Albert and Oella Goltry Farm. The first recorded person buried there was Dennis Gilmore in 1877. This cemetery is no longer in use. The cemetery is fenced and is well cared for. It sits on a hill and has a sign over the entrance.

For any questions or information about Big Creek Cemetery contact Larry and Joanne Lindberg Lind@ckt.net or 16405 250th Rd., Savonburg, KS 66772. They represent Cemetery District # 1 of Neosho County.

This file has been produced by Betty Barnhart (barnhart@cableone.net). This file remains the property of the submitter who, agrees that it may be freely copied but never sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge and written permission of the rightful owner.

Names	Birth	Death	Notation
BRILEY, Amy C.		13 Jan 1881	age illegible
DENNIS, Infant		31 Aug 1887	Son of N.J. & S.E.
DENNIS, Sarah Elizabeth Gilmore		31 Aug 1887	Wife of N.J.
GILMORE, Dennis		31 Aug 1877	Infant son of N.J. & S.E.
GILMORE, Edwin			Drowned while swimming
GILMORE, Glaphyra	1828	1917	(Mullins), Wife of James
GILMORE, James Scott	1831	14 Jan 1879	47yr 10mo 6da, G.A.R.
HOWARD, Dorothy Matilda Gilmore	13 Jul 1858	25 Mar 1887	28yr 9mo 12da, Wife of H.P.
HOWARD, Infants		1887	Twin Infants of H.P., Jr
TOLBERT,			Infant son of S.L. & M.C.
TOLBERT, Chester C.			Son of S.S. & H.I.
TOLBERT, Oray or Cory		26 May 1887
WIMSETT, Maud M.		1 Mar 1880	age 5 mo, Dau of W. & C.A.
CAW			(Footstone may be Wimsett)
CCW			(Footstone may be Wimsett)
WIMSETT, twin boy		24 Jul 1884	buried in coffin with twin
WIMSETT, twin boy		Aug 1884	buried in coffin with twin