Roth Cemetery

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 Information and history follow on this page:

   Roth Cemetery is located out west of Boonsville on land now owned by Ron & Teresa Ray of Arkansas.
    It's a small, (9 headstones) over-grown cemetery, but there's lots of history in the area. It's the site where the original town of Boonsville was located on Boons Creek. The town moved to its present location and took its name with it.

    To get there, you go west out of Boonsville on CR 3840 and then turn right on CR 3737. At a "T" turn left on CR 3838. You will see the gray, pipe pasture gate straight ahead as the road makes a turn north. The gate is kept locked and you will need to contact someone to enter. Thank you to Brad & RayAnn Gentry for showing us around.
    You go about a half mile west on the pasture road and then turn to the right. On the left you will see a rock chimney. This is what remains of old Boonsville. 

    Below is an old newspaper picture of the cabin that was the Boonsville Post Office. Joseph Roth was the first postmaster (see his family history in the data table below). The building was finished in the summer of 1876 and became a post office and stage coach stop in 1878. The "stage coach roads" are still visible a little ways to the north and south in the woods.

    The cemetery is about a quarter mile to the north of the cabin. It is fenced and brushy. 
    We didn't find one of the 9 headstones, but did find the footstone with initials on it. It is suppose to be one of the Roth children.

    The added information in the table below came from a newspaper article interview with Mrs. R.P. Hardy of Missouri, a granddaughter of Joseph Roth. This information, not on the headstones, is in parenthesis ( ).