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O'Rear Family Cemetery

Also known as Allen O'Rear Family Cemetery

Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA

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Get directions Starke Lane
Columbia, Missouri 65202 United States

Coordinates: 39.00033, -92.29304
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This cemetery was re-located several years ago to its current location at the SE edge of the Boone County Fairgrounds. The original location was essentially under the 'racetrack/arena'. My grandmother, who is the great-granddaughter of Allen O'Rear, accompanied the fair officials to the site and showed them were the 'slave section' was. All graves, including the slaves, were moved to the new location.

My great-grandmother told me a story once about this cemetery that is quite interesting. During the Civil War, Union soldiers were marching captive Confederate soldiers down Oakland Gravel Road and one of the soldiers fell by the road dead. Susan O'Rear (Allen's wife) sent some of her slaves down to the road to fetch the body. She buried him in her husband's wedding suit. There is no stone for this soldier.

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