KITTRELL CEMETERY (#19)

also known at various times as

CANE CREEK, BURTON, GRAY, MCGHEE, and WARREN

T25N R5E SEC 7

Map #6

 

 

This cemetery has a lot of unmarked graves. To provide as much information as possible, additional research was  done and information compiled from sources other than headstones. It is said that there may be burials here from as early as 1820.

 

Samuel KITTRELL of Granville Co., NC, son of Samuel & Catherine, was  born 19 Feb 1777,  d. 1838. He married Ellender [Eleanor] SHAMWELL, 30 Dec 1800 in NC. She was born 20 Sep 1780. Her death date is unknown, but she is buried in the KITTRELL cemetery, near where the family first settled when they came to the area in 1819.

Their children:

- Elizabeth H. (b. 4 Oct 1801, NC.) md 7 Nov 1820, Wayne Co., MO, Pennington POWERS ( b. 14 Dec 1793, in SC)

- Lemuel (b. 16 Mar 1805), md (1) Elizabeth _____; (2) Lurannah PONDER. Lived in Doniphan where a stone has been erected in the old city cemetery to honor him as the first citizen of Doniphan. Lurannah is buried in the PONDER cemetery.

- Solomon (b. abt 1807), md (1) 3-11-1830, Lucy EPPS (abt 1807 - 1849), daughter of Daniel & Nancy

(CARTER) EPPS; (2) Louisa MCMINN. He had 10 children - 6 by his first wife, and 4 by the second. Solomon is buried in Warren Cemetery, as is his father, Samuel, and his son, Lemuel. It is presumed Lucy is buried there also.

- Joseph (birth, death and burial unknown, but apparently died young), md Rebecca RUSHIN (b. 1821/22). They had one child., Polly Ann. After Joseph’s death, Rebecca md. abt 1842, James BRANNUM. Polly Ann

KITTRELL, (1 Mar 1837 - 13 Mar 1927), md Washington POWERS (24 Nov 1833 - 6 Aug 1889). Both buried POWERS cemetery.

                [authors note: there are no markers found for this couple in POWERS cemetery, which is

                 recorded in CEMETERIES OF SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY MISSOURI (first

                 edition, 1994, p. 90), and                 their names do not appear in that volume. However, this

                 information does appear in the revised edition, pub.1997]

- Samuel (b. 1820), md (1) Amelia _____; (2) Sarah BARBER. Had six children.

                                From information provided  by descendants John and Bertha Marley, and Ruth Thurman,

                                 for a history of Butler County.

 

KITTRELL, A. F.    1 Sep 1853 - 25 Sep 1882   age 29y 25d  

               

JENNINGS, N. J.      Cairo, Illinois

 

FAIRLESS, Lenah    1 Apr 1900 - 20 Aug 1954

 

KINDER, Sophia A.    1 May 1840 - 20 Apr 1875

 

KITTRELL, Lem      Uncle

KITTRELL, Solomon

 

MALADY, Josh Melton    25 Aug 1908 - 1923 [1924?]

MALADY, Easter May    1916   Infant

MALADY, baby    b. & d. 1927

MALADY, Fabian C.    8 Oct 1930 - 6 Dec 1930

MALADY, Hughie David    10 Sep 1922 - 9 Jul 1936

MALADY, Norma    1830 -

MALADY, James Thomas ‘Tom’   1867 - 10 Dec 1930 

                (orignally buried at the County Poor Farm Cemetery, his sister Stella (MALADY) COLLINS, had the            body moved to the this cemetery where other family members are buried)

 

 

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The following are taken from a family bible record.

Only the two with * are specifically said to be buried in Kittrell Cemetery

 

KITTRELL, Solomon    7 Jan 1807 - 25 Mar 1872  *  bur Kittrell cem

KITTRELL, Lemuel C.    13 May 1836 - [no death date recorded]  *  bur Kittrell cem

KITTRELL, Lucy EPPS    20 Dec 1810 - 21 Nov 1849

 

FERGUSON, Elizabeth KITTRELL    1 Aug 1832 - 21 Apr 1871

 

KITTRELL, Isaac    3 May 1836 - 4 Mar 1863

 

HAMMONS, Mary Ann KITTRELL    9 Apr 1839 - 10 Sept 1855

 

KITTRELL, Eleanor    27 Apr 1846 - 25 Jan 1854

 

CALDWELL, Lucy KITTRELL    1 Nov 1949 - 12 Dec 1873

 

KITTRELL, Permelia Angeline     3 Sep 1856 - 20 Apr 1864

SMITH, Martha Jane KITTRELL  6 Jun 1855 -.5 Sep 1939

 

KITTRELL, Alfred Franklin     1 Sep 1853 - 25 Sep 1882

 

 

Researched by Betty Hanks

 

 

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