DECORATION DAY, MAY 28,2012

Here a just a few of the people who are buried in the cemetery.  Family members come to the cemetery and  honor to their loved one by decorating the graves of their loved ones.

Joseph Johnson was one of the three Union soldiers buried at the cemetery.  He was  a member of the 13th Regiment Heavy Artillery.

Marie E. Johnson Flage has an unusal headstone.  It has a crest with "Royal Circle of Friends of the World" on it.http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5861      This group was an African American fraternal organization.  It supplied insurance and was didcated to the "moral, physical, social, and economic welfare of its members."

John Henry Smith was the first sexton of the Mount Muncie Cemetery.



This is the tallest tombstone in the cemetery.

Everett Richard "Joshua" Johnson played the piano and was known as "King Of Boogie Woogie in 1940."



Hubbard Smith was one of the last person in the Smith family to be a sexton with the cemetery.

Gilbert Johnson attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO and was known for his athletic abilites in track and field events.

Wiillam "Dugan" Pollard is featured in the mural located in the City Hall building in Higginsville, MO.

Hattie Blythe is one of the 54 other persons who was born prior to the end of slavery.

Isabell Greenwood was the sister of Evervett Johnson, musician.

Harry and Minnie Harrington have an unusal tombstone. 



George Conway.  He died at General Hospital #2 , Kansas City MO.  This was the hospital that blacks could be admitted for treatment.  It is now called Truman West Hospital.



Arthur Groves was a member of the Mount Muncie Cemetery board of trustess.