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Title
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Finding Aid for the Kansas City Cemetery Collection
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Type
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Text
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Format
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Portable Document File Format; 503 KB; 5 pages.
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Language
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English
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Place
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Kansas City (Mo.)
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Publisher
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Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
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Extent
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3 archival boxes, digital images
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Identifier
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MGC 1157
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Temporal Coverage
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1980s-1990s
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Kansas City Cemeteries Collection
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Joan Kusek
Dates: c. 1980s-1990s
Identification: MGC1157
Extent: 12 linear feet (12 boxes)
Language: Materials in the collection are in English.
Repository: Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Missouri
Administrative History
The following cemeteries are defunct and are now in the care of the Unified Government
Parks and Recreation Department of Wyandotte County, Kansas. No new plots are
available for sale in any of these cemeteries, but the department maintains the grounds.
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Huron (806 N 7th St)
Griffith (6749 Leavenworth Rd)
Mt. Hope (3600 Parallel Pkwy)
Oak Grove (Waverly Ave and N 3rd St)
Old Quindaro (3560 N 31st Ter)
Prairie (N 100th & Leavenworth Rd)
Saylor (6901 Donahoo Rd)
Shawnee (S 55th St & Edgehill Dr)
Vinewood—also known as Swedish Cemetery—(N 97th St)
Westlawn (628 S 38 St)
Woodlawn (2041 N 9th St)
Bethel Cemetery (7800 Leavenworth Rd), also known as Bethel IIOF Cemetery, was
established in 1896.
Franklin Cemetery (86th and Swartz Rd, Kansas City, KS) is also known as Jordan
Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery (2301 S 34th St, Kansas City, KS), was originally called Arlington
Cemetery and was established in 1865 as a cemetery for Union soldiers after the Civil
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War. It later became known as Argentine-Junction Cemetery. In 1905, a group of
citizens bought the cemetery as well as some surrounding land to create Maple Hill
Cemetery. The Argentine and Junction cemeteries remain part of Maple Hill Cemetery.
Mt. St. Mary’s Cemetery or St. Mary’s Cemetery (2201 Cleveland Ave) is a Catholic
cemetery located in Kansas City, Missouri. It was dedicated in 1877. St. Francis Regis
Cemetery closed in 1877 and Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery was abandoned in
the 1920s. Burials from both cemeteries were moved to Mt. St. Mary’s Cemetery. Father
Donnelly kept the early record books for St. Francis Regis and Mt. St. Mary’s Cemetery.
The first death and burial was in 1846. About half of the deaths between 1846 and 1859
were children under the age of 12.
Stony Point Cemetery (S 78th St, Kansas City, KS) was established in 1873 near the
Santa Fe Trail. The Eberhart family donated two acres for the cemetery. The cemetery
was laid out with 35 lots and had 18 burial plots in each lot. Later, the Stony Point
Cemetery Association formed to maintain both the church and cemetery. In 2007, the
cemetery board members purchased one more acre of land for the cemetery.
White Church Cemetery (2200 N 85th St, Kanas City, KS) is also known as Delaware
Indian Cemetery. The church and cemetery were established in 1831 as a Methodist
Mission to the Delaware Indians.
Wyandotte County Cemetery (1500 N 94th St) is also known as the Potter’s Field. There
are only two marked graves and the field is maintained by the Wyandotte County Court
House Annex.
Scope and Content
The collection contains copies of sexton records including interment records, burial
records, and lot records from various cemeteries in Kansas City, Kansas and one
cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. The information collected was used by Joan Kusek
to publish books containing indexes of burials in those cemeteries. Other records
include handwritten cemetery transcriptions done during the 1980s or 1990s. The
collection includes 9 boxes of index cards transcribed from funeral home records. The
records were transcribed around 1980s or 1990s. Some of the funeral homes no longer
exist. The project to publish the funeral home index was not completed.
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Restrictions
Access: This collection is open for research.
Conditions governing reproduction and use: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce
must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Administrative Information
Immediate source of acquisition: This collection was donated by Joan Kusek.
Citation: The Kansas City Cemetery Collection (MGC1157), Midwest Genealogy Center,
Independence, Missouri
Processing Information: This collection was processed by Jolene Clark, 2018; John
Mason, 2025.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
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“A Final Resting Place for Missouri's Founding Settlers.” Diocese of Kansas City
– St. Joseph, 19 Oct. 2018, catholickey.org/2011/09/14/catholic-cemeteries-afinal-resting-place-for-missouri’s-founding-settlers/.
Cemeteries - Unified Government, www.wycokck.org/Parks/Cemeteries.aspx,
2018.
Findagrave.com, www.findagrave.com, 2018.
“History - Stony Point Cemetery.” Google Sites,
sites.google.com/site/stonypointcemetery/home/history.
“Who We Are.” Maple Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery,
www.maplehillfuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history-and-staff.
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Container List
Series 1: Bethel Cemetery
Box 1
Folder 1: Cemetery Transcription
Series 2: Huron Cemetery
Box 1
Folder 1: Index
Series 3: Mt. Hope Cemetery
Box 1
Folder 1, Copies of lot Records
Folder 2, Copies of lot Records, cont.
Folder 3, Cemetery Transcription
Folder 4, Cemetery Transcription, cont.
Folder 5, Cemetery Transcription, cont.
Folder 6, Index
Series 4: Mt. St, Mary’s Cemetery – (note: some records not alphabetical)
Box 1
Folder 1, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards A-B
Folder 2, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards C
Folder 3, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards D-F
Folder 4, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards G-H
Folder 5, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards I-K
Box 2
Folder 6, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards, L
Folder 7, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards, M
Folder 8, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards, M-R
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Folder 9, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards, S
Folder 10, Copies of sexton records, Index Cards, T-Z
Series 5: Oak Grove Cemetery
Box 2
Folder 1, History and maps of Oak Grove Cemetery
Folder 2, Index, 1870-1885
Folder 3, Index, 1884-1949
Folder 4, Index, 1900-1910
Folder 5, Index, 1922-1970
Folder 6, Copies of plot records 1870-1885
Folder 7, Copies of plot records, 1884-1949
Folder 8, Copies of monthly report—Sale of single graves, 1895-1896
Folder 9, Copies of interment records, 1889-1894
Folder 10, Copies of interment records, 1895-1938
Folder 11, Copies of interment records, 1895-1938, cont.
Folder 12, Cemetery transcription
Series 6: Quindaro Cemetery
Box 2
Folder 1, Copy of interment records, 1876-1985
Folder 2, Cemetery transcription
Folder 3, Index
Series 7: Westlawn Cemetery
Box 3
Folder 1, Copies of interment records A-C
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Folder 2, Copies of interment records D-G
Folder 3, Copies of interment records H-N
Folder 4, Copies of interment records O-R
Folder 5, Copies of interment records S-Z
Folder 6, Copies of burial records
Folder 7, Copies of lot Records
Folder 8, Copies of lot Records, cont.
Folder 9, Complied list
Folder 10, Index
Folder 11, Map
Series 8: Woodlawn Cemetery
Box 3
Folder 1, Copies of interment records, 1885-1903
Folder 2, Cemetery transcription
Series 9: Misc. Cemeteries
Box 3
Folder 1, Argentine-Junction Cemetery
Folder 2, Franklin Cemetery
Folder 3, Griffith Cemetery
Folder 4, Prairie Township Cemetery
Folder 5, Saylor Cemetery
Folder 6, Shawnee Cemetery
Folder 7, Stoney Point Cemetery
Folder 8, Vinewood Cemetery
Folder 9, White Church Cemetery
Folder 10, Wyandotte County Cemetery (Potter’s Field)
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Series 10: Misc. Records
Box 3
Folder 1, Some facts about the cemeteries
Folder 2, unidentified sexton records
Folder 3, unidentified cemetery transcripts
Folder 4, copies of cemetery maps
Series 11: Kansas City, Kansas Cemeteries Index Cards
Box 4: A-B
Box 5: B-D
Box 6: E-H
Box 7: H-K
Box 8: K-M
Box 9: M-P
Box 10: P-S
Box 11: S-W
Box 12: W-Z
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