Wheeler Cemetery

Missouri · USA · Cemetery

Five miles down a county road off DD Highway. The stones record a great many babies and young children, and a run of deaths among the teenagers.

Wheeler Cemetery lies about five miles down a county road off DD Highway near Dixon, Missouri.

What visitors notice is not any single grave but the pattern across them. There are a great many infants and young children buried here, at least one of them after something the local accounts call tragic. There is also a run of teenagers and people in their early twenties, and the causes recorded or remembered include drowning, road accidents and worse.

That is a demographic picture rather than a ghost story, and it is what rural American burial grounds looked like before antibiotics and before seatbelts.

What visitors report at the cemetery follows from spending time reading those dates.

It is a small working cemetery belonging to the families in it, at the end of a gravel road.

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Wheeler Cemetery liegt in Missouri, USA.