Hale Cemetery

White River Township

Barry County, MO

Relocated to Philibert Cemetery near Kimberling City

  Submitted by: Jay Trace

Leader Press 7-22-1956 - Grave Hunt Strenuous - Page 1

Philibert Cemetery - Page 2

Philibert Cemetery - Page 3

Leader 9-20-1956 - New Cemetery Tract Bought on HWY 13  

Leader Press 10-12-1957 - Arkansas Bidder Apparently Low on Cemetery Job

 Leader Press  1-15-1958 - Grave Moving Work Probed

According to my Lost Graves CD, the four graves moved from Hale Cemetery, were:

1. T. B. P. to Joseph Philibert, Grave No. 397.
2. Elijah Clark, Joseph Philibert, Grave No. 391
3. Ellia Clark, Joseph Philibert, Grave No. 394.
4. T. O. Hale, Joseph Philibert, Grave No. 392

Springfield Leader-Press:

July 22, 1956 ( 3 pages) The article has a picture of Marvin Tong at the old, original Joseph Philibert Cemetery with the graves of Joseph Philibert, Peninah Yoachum Philibert, and Charles E. Philibert. There follows two more pages of article about the removal.

Sept. 20, 1956 titled "New Cemetery Tract Bought on Highway 13".

Oct. 12, 1957 titled "Arkansas Bidder Apparently Low on Cemetery Job".

Jan. 17, 1958 titled "Grave Moving Work Probed - Stone Countians Say Job Incomplete"

Submitted by: Wilma Fields

Monett Times  - 1956
 

PLAN TO MOVE 19 CEMETERIES SOON

Would Be Inundated By Dam Reservoir

One cemetery in Barry County and 18 in Stone County,
that will be inundated by Table Rock Lake reservoir in
about a year may be combined into one cemetery soon by
the Little Rock district of the Army Engineers.

A meeting has been called for Thursday, July 26, at
7:30 p.m. at Reeds Spring High School with
representatives of the engineers and cemetery
officials discussing establishment of the new cemetery
association.

The government will pay the cost of removing the
graves, monuments and headstones and will purchase
land for the new cemetery, but maintenance will be the
responsibility of trustees appointed by those
effected.

Containing about 420 known graves, the cemeteries are
Hale in Barry County, and Warren, Thomas, Hammer,
Yates, Pitts, Horn, Evans, Henson, Pace, Thompson,
Hobbs, Leonard, Andoe, Philibert, Oswalt, Morris,
Hardin and Galaswell in Stone County.

The graves were moved in the 1950's to make room for Table Rock Dam and Lake.   

The family cemetery is now under 30 feet of water in the middle of
the lake in Section 2, Township 21 North, Range 25 West.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, which moved the graves from the Hale Cemetery to the Joseph Philibert Cemetery in Kimberling City, said they moved 16 graves, but only 4 had markers that could be identified at the time. No others were marked on the map provided by the Corps of Engineers. Any old wooden markers that may have existed from these and other graves were removed and discarded many years ago by cemetery workers as they were allegedly illegible and decayed. This information was from Jack Turner, caretaker of the Joseph Philibert Cemetery, who helped relocate the cemetery.

Jay Trace's Note:  I've found two newspaper articles from 1956 regarding the movement of 20 cemeteries and nearly 400 graves
from the area that is now underwater in Table Rock Lake. One of those cemeteries is Hale Cemetery from Barry County.

Here is a Stone County link to the cemeteries that were in that relocated to Philibert Cemetery.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mostone/cemetery/Philibert.html

Name: Sarah Butler
Birth: Jul 1819 in North Carolina
Death: Aft 1871 in Viola, Barry Co., MO
Burial: Hale Cemetery, Barry Co., Missouri

 

Jay Trace's Note: I looked up the Bureau of land management site
to find the approximate location of the original Hale Cemetery. Turner Hale received 127.5 acres in the White River Sec 2, Township 21N, Range 25W. It lists it as 1se, 2se, and 3se.

The 93 acres owned by J. S. Suttles in the southeast corner, and the 34+ acres to the north of that was owned by F. M. Garrett. It's all
part of Table Rock Lake area now. 

Name: Hale, William Thomas
Birth: Feb 9, 1847 at Carroll Co., TN
Death: Dec 1, 1924 at Sarcoxie, MO

Burial: Hale Cemetery, Barry Co., MO

Research Note: Tom is buried with his second wife, Louisa Jane Gaddy Hale. His first wife, Hulda Paralee Williams, is buried in the High Cemetery in Carroll Co., AR.

He was divorced from both wives at the time of his death. He was known in the area as "Uncle Tom" as were many of the older inhabitants.

He owned land in Stone County and considered himself a "laplander", because his land lapped over into Barry.

His name was William Thomas Hale, not Tom J., he went by his middle name as did many of his family.

William Thomas Hale was the son of Turner Ogburn Hale, who moved to Barry County in 1853 from Carroll County,
TN.

Turner was born in Hawkins Co., TN, son of Ogburn Hale of Norfolk Co., VA. Turner's wife was Sarah Butler, who died after 1870. Turner died April 28, 1881 and was buried on his farm, along with 16 other members of our family.

That cemetery is now under 30 feet of water and the Corps of Engineers only moved 4 graves over to Philibert Cemetery in Stone County, Turner's being one of them, as well as one of his sons, Ellias Ogburn Hale, his son in law, Elijah Clark, one unmarked and one with initials of TJB.

The George M. Hale, mentioned as Tom's son in Bartlesville, OK was my grandfather.

Gary Hale's Online Notes