Schroyer Cemetery

Kansas · United States · Cemetery

Half an acre on a hill with no path up to it. Several of the family were buried here in the late 1800s. One grave is left.

On a hill near Blue Rapids, Kansas there is a burial ground unlike any other in this archive, because there is no way up to it. No path, no track, no gate.

It covers about half an acre, and several members of the Schroyer family were buried there in the late 1800s.

One grave remains. It belongs to Mr Schroyer himself.

What happened to the others is the question the place asks, and the usual answers are prairie weather, wooden markers, and a century of no one left to tend it. Limestone and sandstone stones in Kansas wind and ice do not last, and a family plot on private land loses its custodians when the farm changes hands.

Multiple reports come from the hill.

A man alone on a hill above the Kansas prairie, with his family's graves gone from around him, is the whole of it.

The site is on private land.

FAQ

Where is Schroyer Cemetery located?

Schroyer Cemetery is in Kansas, United States.