Shawnee Town Mock Cemetery

About the Cemetery

Old Shawnee Town is a recreation of life in the Prairie. The park is located in the heart of what was once Gum Springs, later renamed Shawnee, Kansas. Old Shawnee Town is comprised of buildings both authentic and recreations, including a church with a little cemetery. According to the City of Shawnee, there are no actual graves here. The stones here were stolen from an unknown location, recovered by the Johnson County Sheriff, and eventually placed here.

Cemetery Index

Photographed by: Linda K Lewis, 2005.
Transcribed by: Carol Rollins, Linda K Lewis, 27 Feb 2009.
This is a complete transcription by reading and photographing the gravestones, however no graves are actually located here. See notes below.

??, Julia; b. 28 Aug 1798
Allison, Martha J; b. 29 Jun 1871, d. 12 Dec 1876
Allison, Virginia C; b. 07 Oct 1881, d. 1884, Aged 22 y
Brown, John N; Co D 143 Ill Inf
Churchbaugh, Sarah Etta; b. 20 Mar 1891, d. 03 Apr 1891, Dau of Wm and DM Churchbaugh¹
McElroy, Alice; d. 1872, Aged 12 y 6 m 22 d, Children of T and C McElroy
McElroy, Infant; Children of T and C McElroy
McElroy, Katie; Children of T and C McElroy
Robertson, Katherine;

¹1895 Kansas State Census shows Wm. Churchbaugh, a. 30, b. OH; Della M., a. 24, b. KS; and Elmer E., a. 2, b. KS are listed in Willow Springs Township, Douglas County, KS. Sarah Etta is interred with her parents in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas Co., KS. With the original stone missing, Sarah was later marked on her parents' joint granite gravestone and with a second matching name stone.