This cemetery no longer exists though not all burials were removed. Marshall City Cemetery was founded July 16, 1869 on 20 acres in the far northeast corner of Section 21, Township 50N, Range 21W. The land was purchased from Samuel Davis by Marshall City Cemetery association with J. P. Strother as president.
In the 1967 "History of Saline County" published by the Saline County Historical Society, Mrs. Virginia Montague Ruff wrote extensive detail on the cemetery and reported on a 1964 visit to the grounds where she read a few still standing tombstones. She said most remaining tombstones were toppled over and unreadable. The remaining tombstones she found in 1964 were near a cattle feed trough and the cemetery land was planted to corn. During 1964, the Highway 65 bypass through Marshall was being built, and Ruff reported that five graves were uncovered during the excavation, none of whom could be identified, and these burials were removed to another cemetery. Some of the burials removed earlier from this cemetery were taken to Ridge Park Cemetery and are in the Ridge Park archives. An undetermined number of burials remain in the Marshall City Cemetery which is now commercial or highway property. In addition to the tombstones Ruff read in 1964, additional listings may eventually be added using newspaper obituaries as sources.
The cemetery is shown on 1876 and 1896 county plat maps and was just outside the Marshall city limits to the southwest. The 1916 county plat map shows the 20 acres under the ownership of E. R. Crockett. The cemetery was located on the southwest side of where Highway 65 bypass and West College Street intersect today.
This was not Marshall's first cemetery. The Missouri Pacific railroad station was built on the site of the first Marshall city cemetery.