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19857
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English
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"That They Might Rest Where the Ashes of the Latter-day Saints Reposed" : The Far West Missouri Burial Ground
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2008
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9
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135-142
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Riggs and Baugh present a brief history of Far West, Missouri, founded by John Whitmer and W.W. Phelps in 1836. Far West was designated the county seat when Caldwell County was established in the same year. Far West had a substantial population. The "rural cemetery" founded just outside Far West the same year became the first rural cemetery east of Boston. Several well-known Mormons were buried there, including David W. Patten. Following the expulsion of the saints from Missouri, the cemetery was abandoned and latter used for agricultural purposes. This article includes a photograph of a plat map of the Caldwell County area dated 1897.
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History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
'I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith' : A Son's Record of the Life and Testimony of Sidney Rigdon
Latter-day Saint Conflict in Clay County
Lyman Sherman--Man of God, Would-Be Apostle
Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience
The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County Missouri
The Latter-day Saints on the Missouri Frontier
The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
Zion is Fled : The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri