Wormington - Wallis Stone

One side reads Wormington and the other Wallis.

Submitted by: Jay Trace

This stone is 20-25 feet off the road, and Jay Trace says it's not really visible from the road.

The man who lives across the road is named:
Curtis Johnson
Rt. 2, Box 204
Monett, MO 65708.
 

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In September of 2006, Jay Trace went back to this cemetery and found four field stones that he thought might be headstones. He wrote that all these rocks face east/west like normal headstones do. He also said that the Wallis/Wormington stone faces north/south.

Stone 1

Stone 2

Stone 3

Stone 4

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This message came from Judy Duff, August 18, 2006. I am posting it because I thought that perhaps the information in it would be helpful to someone else.    

Donna:

I do not know who is buried under that stone that you are showing on your cemetery site.

I do know that a George Duff (born 10 Feb 1800 - died 29 Oct 1877 Barry County, Missouri was buried there. We have family who remember visiting the site with their father, John W. Duff Sr. John W. Duff, Sr. paid someone to fence in the cemetery and clean it at that time (probably in 1920s). Also buried in that area is Susan P. (Wells) Duff (born 21 Mar 1849 - died 13 Jan 1877 Barry County, Missouri. Susan's twin sons who died at birth are also buried here. Susan died with her twin sons.

We have family who tell us that a young boy, named George Duff (a great great great great grandson of the above mentioned George Duff) saw the stone near the fence and took it to school to show his friends. The stone was lost and never returned.

Susan Duff was buried without a stone. She was mother of John W. Duff, Sr. and wife of James Knox Polk Duff, son of George Duff (1800-1877)

Is there anywhere that there could be records of those buried in this area?

I don't know if this is anything pertinent...but was looking through this wonderful site. You folks are doing a magnificent job on the cemetery work. I'm so impressed.

We were there several years ago. We were searching for this place with our brother who had been there with his dad. We talked with Curtis Johnson and he showed us where it was. But alas, the George stone had been taken and Susan and sons did not have a stone. In the process of searching for the site we'd developed car trouble and just after Curtis showed us the area we wanted, the tow truck arrived and we had to leave.

Again...I'm very impressed with your cemetery pages.

Judy Duff

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In another e-mail Judy gave this information:

Curtis told us there were perhaps 20 graves in that cemetery. We didn't know it had a name. Originally it was land that had belonged to George Duff (I have been told by family). Curtis told us several years ago that there were some fallen stones pretty well buried by build up of leaves, growth etc.

When Susan Wells Duff was buried there was only one large tree ... she was buried beside it with her baby twin boys.

Jim Duff, the brother, who went with his father when he was a boy, has passed on now and we were much younger children.

And when I found out that Susan didn't have a stone and George's stone had been removed, I didn't see a lot of sense in going back.

Perhaps Andrew Jackson Wells and wife Nancy (Lawson) Wells are also buried there. They lived near George Duff. Two of the Wells children married Duff children.

Isaac Wells married Mary Ann Duff. They are buried at Seneca MO. Susan Wells married James Knox Polk Duff. James is buried at Seneca MO.

Their sister, Sarah Wells married Daniel Eden. They are buried in Site Cemetery in Barry County.

The Wormington-Wallis grave is possibly someone from the family of John Fletcher Wormington (born 9 Jun 1845 in MO - died 1 Dec 1920 Barry County MO) and his wife, Mildred Ann Wallis born about 1843 (from 1880 census Barry County, MO) and died 1917. They were married 1 Sep 1865 in Lawrence County, MO. His father was Asa Wormington and Nancy Green. John and Mildred lived near Daniel and Sarah (Wells) Eden in Barry County in the 1880 census.