Missouri Cemetery Records
This entry was originally written by Marsha Hoffman Rising CG, FUGA, FASG, and Pamela Boyer Porter, CGRS, CGL for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The following national cemeteries are located in Missouri:
Springfield National Cemetery, 1702 E. Seminole St., Springfield, MO 65804. The names of all known soldiers buried there, including those transferred from towns throughout southwest Missouri, were published in Ozar'kin, published by the Ozarks Genealogical Society in the four issues of volume 8 (1986). There is also an online index to burials at www.interment.net/data/us/mo/greene/springnat.
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 2900 Sheridan Rd., St. Louis, MO 63125 www.cem.va.gov/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.htm. A computerized grave locater kiosk is available at the cemetery's Administration Building, and an online index to burials is available at www.interment.net/data/us/mo/stlouis/jeffbarr.
Jefferson City National Cemetery, 1024 E. McCarty St., Jefferson City, MO 65101. The researcher may contact Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery for information, or access an online index to burials at www.interment.net/data/us/mo/cole/jeffcitynat.
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville, 20109 Business Hwy. 13, Higginsville, MO 64037. An incomplete index of burials can be found online at www.interment.net/data/us/mo/lafayette/vets.
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Springfield, 5201 S. Southwood Rd., Springfield, MO 65804. Researchers can find an incomplete online index at www.interment.net/data/us/mo/greene/vets.
St. James Missouri Veterans Home Cemetery, 620 N. Jefferson, St. James, MO 65559. This cemetery includes burials from the Civil War era forward. Two new state veterans cemeteries at Bloomfield and Jacksonville are scheduled to open in late 2003 or early 2004.
There is no central registry for cemeteries located in Missouri. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) have compiled and published numerous inscriptions of cemeteries throughout the state. Many of these records have been microfilmed and are available through the Family History Library. Elizabeth Gorrell Kot's and Shirley Pugh Thomson's Missouri Cemetery Inscription Sources: Print and Microfilm (Vallejo, Calif.: Indices Publishing, 1995) includes FHL microfilm and microfiche numbers.
An Index to the Cemetery Locations in the Missouri Ozarks is available from the Ozarks Genealogical Society (see Missouri Land Records for address) for $20. The publication covers a forty-one-county area south of the Missouri River, listing over 5,000 cemeteries by name and location.
Some cemetery inscriptions are found online and can be located here: Missouri Cemetery Records
