Laurel Hill Cemetery
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Laurel Hill Cemetery

Also known as City Cemetery, Lawn Hill Cemetery

Weston, Platte County, Missouri, USA

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Laurel Hill Cemetery sets high on the Welt Street hill overlooking the town. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the pre-Civil War cemetery is not endowed. First known as City Cemetery, the name was changed to Laurel Hill in 1902, named for the Laurel trees that grew on that hill at the time. Unfortunately, no Laurel trees remain today. Early settlers buried here are four generations of Daniel Boone descendants, David and Phena Calvert Holladay, and Buffalo Bill's aunt Louisa Cody. One of only a few maintained slave cemeteries in the state, a quarter section holds the graves of Missouri slaves. Laurel Hill cemetery is probably the oldest cemetery in Platte County, since Weston was the first town in the Platte Purchase. A few markers of 1840 can be found.

Laurel Hill Cemetery serves as the final resting place for most of the original residents of Weston: the businessmen, doctors, builders, dreamers, soldiers and veterans, farmers, teachers, lawmen, and their wives and children who built the town, gave it personality and established its place in history.

Laurel Hill Cemetery sets high on the Welt Street hill overlooking the town. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the pre-Civil War cemetery is not endowed. First known as City Cemetery, the name was changed to Laurel Hill in 1902, named for the Laurel trees that grew on that hill at the time. Unfortunately, no Laurel trees remain today. Early settlers buried here are four generations of Daniel Boone descendants, David and Phena Calvert Holladay, and Buffalo Bill's aunt Louisa Cody. One of only a few maintained slave cemeteries in the state, a quarter section holds the graves of Missouri slaves. Laurel Hill cemetery is probably the oldest cemetery in Platte County, since Weston was the first town in the Platte Purchase. A few markers of 1840 can be found.

Laurel Hill Cemetery serves as the final resting place for most of the original residents of Weston: the businessmen, doctors, builders, dreamers, soldiers and veterans, farmers, teachers, lawmen, and their wives and children who built the town, gave it personality and established its place in history.

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