Lost Hill Cemetery
Cemetery
ID FAG 2638089
Jim
Henry Township
Section 32, Township 41
North, Range 12 West
Miller County, Missouri
Lost
Hill Cemetery Hwy 52 from St. Elizabeth you take 52 and continue NE on 52 for
2 ½ miles until you come to Lost Hill Road on the left. The cemetery
is a few miles down Lost Hill Rod and sits off to the right several hundred
feet.
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The
historic Lost Hill Cemetery is located two and a half miles North East of St.
Elizabeth on Hwy 52.
Just after crossing the Tavern Creek Bridge
the location in believed to be in the tree covered hill on the right (second
drive on the right). There are no stones left standing. This cemetery is
believed to be part of the Lost Hill Community, and location of the first white
settlers in Miller County. The cemetery was started by Henry F. Warren sometime
in the 1800s. The property is now owned by Curtis Lueckenhoff (Luecke)
Lost Hill is a
strange phenomime of nature - - a large
rounded-top hill sitting in the center of a field in the Big Tavern valley of
Osage Township, a few miles northeast of St. Elizabeth. According to legend, a lone grave is located
on top of the hill and is that of a child buried in 1811. He is supposed to be Thomas West, infant son
of William West, whom was probably the earliest settler in what is today,
Miller County.
According to Clyde Lee Jenkins
History of Miller County William West came to Miller County (then only a
Missouri Territory) in 1807 from Kentucky and built a log cabin near the Big
Tavern creek, northeast of St. Elizaeth, Mo. William West was the first white
settler in Miller County. The Osage
Indians were inhabitants of the land when he arrived here. Wiliam and his wife left Miller County in
1811, but first buried an infant son before they life the area. The child was named Thomas West.
Prater,
Benjamin Paul FAG # 119971172
1819
Cannon Co. TN. Indian Twn. Payne, OK. - Date is
Unknown
s/o Archelaus
Archibald Prater 1767 1854 & Sally (Hughett) Prater, Archelaus and
Sally were married 18 June 1816, in Patrick, Virginia. They were the
parents of 6 sons and 7 daughters,
Benjamin
Paul Prater is the husband of Elizabeth Ann (Warren) Prater 1822
1903 - wed 10 Mar. 1839 - FAG # 71971806 - Buried West Adair
Cemetery, Mayes Co., Oklahoma - Elizabeth is the daughter of Henrey
V. Warren & Barbara Warren. Benjamin Paul Prater and Elizabeth
(Warren) Prater were the parents of 8 sons and 1 daughter.
The Life Summary of Benjamin Paul Prater
Benjamin married Elizabeth Ann Warren in Cannon County,
Tennessee March 10, 1839. See copy of marriage license at right in this
memorial. They had 10 children. Information in the memorial for Benjamin's
father indicates that Benjamin was the son of Archelus and his second wife
Sally Hughett, daughter of William E. Hughett 1758 1837 & Elizabeth
(Goad) Hughett 1767 1850- whom he married on June 18, 1816; their two
children were Thomas and Benjamin.
When
Benjamin Paul Prater was born in 1819, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, his
father, Archelaus Archibald Prater, was 53 and his mother, Sally Hughett, was
23. He married Elizabeth Ann Warren on 10 March 1839, in Cannon, Tennessee,
United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He died
in Indian Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United States.
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The source for this cemetery and burial
information is a Find A Grave contributor who is researching the burials in
this old cemetery. Reportedly, old gravestones were removed from the area where
they had been toppled by flooding. They apparently reside on a farmland near
the old cemetery area. Some descendants of Benjamin Prater are studying the
family history to document his burial at this site.
Several family trees on Ancestry.com indicate
that Benjamin died in the Oklahoma Territory, where his wife died while
visiting her family in 1903. While Benjamin was alive for the 1860 Federal
census, his wife Elizabeth was listed as a widow in the 1900 census. The year
of Benjamin's death has not been found.
Children
of Benjamin Paul Prater & Elizabeth Ann (Warren) Prater
William
W. Pater 1840 1899 -
Thomas
Dillard Prater 1842 1883 - buried West Adair Cemetery, Mayes Co. OK.
FAG #
119782988
Henry
Valentine Prater 1844 1935 buried Meta Southside Cemetery, Osage Co. Mo.
FAG #
8887356
Sarah
Catheryn Prater 1846 - 1888
Archibald
c. Prater 1848 -
Elijah
Lafayette Prater 1854 1860 burial details unknown -
FAG #
183697997
Elisha
Napoleon Prater 1854 1937 Pendleton Cemetery, Maries Co. Mo.
FAG #
32193369
Lafayette
Prater 1854 - 1854
Samuel
B. Prater 1856 1929 Columbus City Cemetery, Cherokee Co., KS.
FAG #
21151101151101
Elizabeth
was the daughter of Henry V Warren and Barbara Eliz (Tassey) Warren.
She married Benjamin Prater on March 9, 1839
in Cannon County, TN. They had ten children.
1850 Census Tennessee - Warren-162, district
13, dwelling 1081.
Benjamin,
Elizabeth and their children are listed in the household of Benjamin's father
Archelus Prater.
Three
of Benjamin and Elizabeth's sons were is the Army of Tennessee. After the war,
sons Henry Valentine Prater and Thomas Dillard Prater moved to Missouri near
their mother's sister Sarah (Warren) Barnhart - 16 Nov. 1833 4 Mar.
1895. William remained in Tennessee. Sometime after 1870, son Thomas
Dillard Prater and his family moved from Missouri to Oklahoma.
Sometime before 1900, Elizabeth Ann (Warren)
Prater came to Missouri to live in her son Napoleon Prater's home. She is
listed in the 1900 Maries Co, Mo. Boone Township Census living in Napoleon
Prater's home. (See 1900 Maries-10A, Boone Township, dwelling 211.) She came to
Maries County, Missouri where her brother Henry V. Warren, Jr. And her sons
Henry V. Prater and Napoleon Prater all lived. Her Sister Sarah Elizabeth
(Warren) Barnhart had died in 1895.
The story is handed down from, Leonard Prater,
that her son Henry Valentine Prater took his mother Elizabeth Ann (Warren)
Prater to the train station near Dixon MO in about 1902 or 1903 where she rode
a train to Oklahoma to visit her children in Oklahoma. Her son Samuel B. Prater
was living in Chelsea, Oklahoma. The children of her deceased daughter Sarah
(Prater) Youngblood and the children of her deceased son Thomas Dillard Prater
also had families in Northeastern Oklahoma.
She travelled from near Dixon, Missouri to
Vinita, Oklahoma by rail and reportedly went to the home of Samuel Prater in
Chelsea, Oklahoma. The story is handed down by Nelson Prater, son of Samuel
Prater that Elizabeth Ann suffered a stroke and lay in a coma for several
weeks. She died in the home of Nelson's dad, Samuel B. Prater. Nelson Prater
and Velma (Youngblood) Klamm, granddaughter of Sarah (Prater) Youngblood,
confirms that Elizabeth Ann (Warren) Prater rests in the West Adair Cemetery in
Adair, Oklahoma. She rests near her grandsons Frank and Samuel Youngblood and
other family
members.