Marty Brunetti's Tombstone
Inscriptions of
Lafayette County, Missouri contains an extensive listing
of gravesites for many of the cemeteries in Lafayette County.
The one notable exception is St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in
Concordia, MO. If you are specifically looking for a
gravesite
in that cemetery, use the links on the Church
Records page of this
website.
You might also consider using a site like Find
A Grave that includes many cemeteries throughout the U.S.
The second most popular site is BillionGraves.
Finally, you could also try one of the many websites provided by
various
genealogy groups
that include cemetery listings (many are indexed). For
example,
if you suspect that an individual may be buried east of Concordia
(such as at Immanuel in Sweet Springs), check the Saline County website.
Tombstone Inscriptions of Lafayette County, Missouri
by Marty Brunetti, Odessa, MO
Marty Brunetti compiled a seven volume set of documents entitled Tombstone Inscriptions of
Lafayette County, Missouri. Page scans of these
documents in PDF format can be download from the links below.
These are images of the original document, however, all of
the files have been converted to searchable
images. While each of the full volumes has its own index, you
can
also locate a particular name by using the search facilities of Adobe
Acrobat Reader or any equivalent program. Keep in mind that
the
Optical Character Recognition used to index the files is not perfect,
so it may not index some of the names correctly. So you may
still
want to read through the pages to look for a name if a search fails to
find it.
Each of volumes is quite large and may take a long time to
download. To determine if you are interested in any of these
documents,
first read the following listing that shows the contents of each
volume.
Because the previous files are so large, excerpts from them for
specific churches of interest in the Concordia area can
be downloaded using the following links.
If
you have an ancestor buried in a military cemetery, you can do a web
search on that phrase to locate many on-line listings for those
cemeteries. A particularly good website for overseas
cemeteries
of US soldiers is the following: American
Battle Monuments Commission
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