Wilson Cave Cemetery
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Wilson Cave Cemetery

Miller County, Missouri, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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From Tuscumbia take highway 17 and continue past the junctions of 52 and F, A and C. When you come to the Hendley's Farm Supply, past highway C on the left, the next turn is Sequoia Road. Turn left onto Sequoia Road and go 1.75 miles this is where Humphrey's Creek Road and Sequoia meet, but you want to take the sharp right down a good sized embankment staying on Sequoia. Go another .5 miles until you come to the Bobbie Roark farm, on the left. The cemetery lies on his property, but you will need permission to go any further. This cemetery was long ago destroyed, but I read an article from our local paper for information. Along with the article Mrs. Betty Roark, owner with her husband Bobby of the infamous Wilson's Cave and its surrounding land, told me that some of John's relatives wound up with some of his bones and that she heard this, first hand, from them. It seemed that people went in and destroyed his resting place and apparently disassembled John's remains.

Personally inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly and Glenda (May) Crawford – Mar. 2001

For any information or corrections, please contact me at: [email protected]

***I have added a story from the Miller County Autogram from May 6 , 1926.
***In addition, I have added at the end of the listing, "Burial Plans Made John Wilson a Legend", by Clyde Lee Jenkins, former Miller County Clerk.









From Tuscumbia take highway 17 and continue past the junctions of 52 and F, A and C. When you come to the Hendley's Farm Supply, past highway C on the left, the next turn is Sequoia Road. Turn left onto Sequoia Road and go 1.75 miles this is where Humphrey's Creek Road and Sequoia meet, but you want to take the sharp right down a good sized embankment staying on Sequoia. Go another .5 miles until you come to the Bobbie Roark farm, on the left. The cemetery lies on his property, but you will need permission to go any further. This cemetery was long ago destroyed, but I read an article from our local paper for information. Along with the article Mrs. Betty Roark, owner with her husband Bobby of the infamous Wilson's Cave and its surrounding land, told me that some of John's relatives wound up with some of his bones and that she heard this, first hand, from them. It seemed that people went in and destroyed his resting place and apparently disassembled John's remains.

Personally inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly and Glenda (May) Crawford – Mar. 2001

For any information or corrections, please contact me at: [email protected]

***I have added a story from the Miller County Autogram from May 6 , 1926.
***In addition, I have added at the end of the listing, "Burial Plans Made John Wilson a Legend", by Clyde Lee Jenkins, former Miller County Clerk.







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