Old Salem

Missouri · United States · Cemetery

A furnace stood in the middle of the church and a boy slept in the building. It burned to the ground that night and his body was never found. They gave.

There was a furnace in the middle of this church near Farmington, Missouri, and one of the servers slept in the building.

The church burned to the ground that night.

The boy's body was never found. They put a headstone up for him in the cemetery across the bridge regardless.

That decision is the whole of this entry. A congregation who had nothing to bury made him a grave anyway, so that there would be somewhere to go and a name cut into stone.

Going to the fence to look at it is what visitors do, and what happens then is the rest of the account.

Church furnaces of that era were coal or wood fired, sat in the body of the building, and burned churches down across rural America with grim regularity. Somebody had to bank them overnight, and that somebody often slept there.

The cemetery is a burial ground.

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Where is Old Salem located?

Old Salem is in Missouri, United States.