Baptist Mission Church Cemetery, ca. 1830s

Lost Cemetery

NE quarter of Section 5, Township 12S, Range 23E

The exact site of the Baptist Mission's first or second location is unknown. Unlike the Quaker Mission, whose building still stood in 1874, the Baptist Mission's old site is not noted on the earliest 1874 atlas. Research reveals a mention of the cemetery in the churchyard of the Baptist Mission Church at the second location in what is now Mission, KS. The Baptist Mission Church and cemetery were mentioned as an exception in the 1854 Treaty with the Shawnee. The Olathe DAR placed a red granite marker on the SE corner of 55th and Walmer, the site of the 1848 Baptist Church that was located on the Baptist Mission grounds. The marker dedication ceremony was held on October 16, 1929. 

"... and to the American Baptist Missionary Union, to include the improvements where the superintendent of their school now resides, one hundred and sixty acres of land;" and "...two acres of land to the Shawnee Baptist Church, including the meeting-house and graveyard." 

(Kappler, Charles J. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. 2, Treaties, pg 619. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1904.)