Prairie View Cemetery

 

prairie view cemetery kansas

 

            Prairie View Cemetery is in Big Creek Township, Neosho County, Kansas.  It is located 6.5 miles east of Chanute on K-39 highway on the north side of the highway. This cemetery was started about 1875 on the Albert and Oella Goltry Farm. The first recorded person buried there was Dennis Gilmore in 1877.  This cemetery is no longer in use.  The cemetery is fenced and is well cared for.  It sits on a hill and has a sign over the entrance.

            For any questions or information about Big Creek Cemetery contact Larry and Joanne Lindberg Lind@ckt.net or 16405 250th Rd., Savonburg, KS 66772.  They represent Cemetery District # 1 of Neosho County.

            This file has been produced by Betty Barnhart (barnhart@cableone.net).  This file remains the property of the submitter who, agrees that it may be freely copied but never sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge and written permission of the rightful owner.

 

Names

Birth

Death

Notation

BRILEY, Amy C.

 

13 Jan 1881

age illegible

DENNIS, Infant

 

31 Aug 1887

Son of N.J. & S.E.

DENNIS, Sarah Elizabeth Gilmore

 

31 Aug 1887

Wife of N.J.

GILMORE, Dennis

 

31 Aug 1877

Infant son of N.J. & S.E.

GILMORE, Edwin

 

 

Drowned while swimming

GILMORE, Glaphyra

1828

1917

(Mullins), Wife of James

GILMORE, James Scott

1831

14 Jan 1879

47yr 10mo 6da, G.A.R.

HOWARD, Dorothy Matilda Gilmore

13 Jul 1858

25 Mar 1887

28yr 9mo 12da, Wife of H.P.

HOWARD, Infants

 

1887

Twin Infants of H.P., Jr

TOLBERT,

 

 

Infant son of S.L. & M.C.

TOLBERT, Chester C.

 

 

Son of S.S. & H.I.

TOLBERT, Oray or Cory

 

26 May 1887

 

WIMSETT, Maud M.

 

1 Mar 1880

age 5 mo, Dau of W. & C.A.

CAW  

 

 

(Footstone may be Wimsett)

CCW

 

 

(Footstone may be Wimsett)

WIMSETT, twin boy

 

24 Jul 1884

buried in coffin with twin

WIMSETT, twin boy

 

Aug 1884

buried in coffin with twin