Kansas Cemeteries

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The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains tombstone inscriptions from Kansas cemeteries. This collection is described in Kansas Genealogy. Inscriptions from headstones in hundreds of small graveyards in every county of the state are recorded in Don L. Ford, Abandoned and Semi-Active Cemeteries of Kansas


 * Another collection of tombstone inscriptions is Cemetery Records of Kansas
 * The Reno County, Kansas, Genealogical Society Web page site has interment lists for all fifty four county cemeteries.
 * The Topeka State Hospital, a publicly funded institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in Topeka, Kansas, was in operation from 1872 to 1997. For some, the grounds of the hospital became their final resting place. There is a searchable index to the 1157 individuals buried in the hospital cemetery. With only a few exceptions, individuals were buried without a headstone. Because most individuals were buried in unmarked graves, hospital officials used a grid pattern and designated gravesites by their distance from stone markers placed at the end of each row. The 'Location' is the distance in feet and inches from the eastern marker west to the gravesite.

Family History Catalog
Many of the cemetery records listed have been published by the Kansas Genealogical Society and are available at the Family History Library Catalog. Many cemetery records are published in periodicals. See the Kansas Periodicals for indexes to major periodicals.

The Keyword Search of the | Family History Library Catalog lists more of these records under:
 * KANSAS - CEMETERIES
 * KANSAS, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIES
 * KANSAS, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CEMETERIES

Web Sites

 * http://www.dar.org/
 * http://www.interment.net/us/ks/index.htm
 * http://www.findagrave.com