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Audrain County Cemeteries

New Mt. Zion Church Cemetery

Sec. 25, T50N, R7W. About one mile south of Martinsburg west side of CoRd #751, north of and adjacent to St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery.

The church was organized in 1887 and and  services were conducted in the school house until the church was built in 1895. Before the church was organized as a Baptist church, services were held at the home of   "Uncle" Mose McMurtry, his wife Mary and their three children. This was the first black family to settle in Martinsburg.    

This list is derived from canvasses done by Ted Farnen, Dan Farnen and Mrs. Frank S. Paxson in 1976 and additions by Gene Gallagher and some gleaned from newspapers. Not all burial names are marked but it is reasonably certain that all listed are buried here.

"Some years after the church discontinued services, the vacant building was burned by arsonists. The saddest thing is that nothing had been removed from it and antique furniture, bibles and the church's history were destroyed."

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GIBSON, Melvina

STRICKLAND, R.S. 15 Sep 1875 – 13 Apr 1954
STRICKLAND, Mary wife of R.S. July 20, 1883 – Jan. 11, 1933

NICKENS, William  1882 – 1920

NICKS, Cora  1862 – 5 Nov 1917

MAHANEY, George  1871 – 1928

NICKENS, Ed Ward  1865 – 1882

PARSONS, Lena  19 June 1886 – 8 Oct 1950

BLACK, Parsons

BLACK, Minnie  15 Apr 1880 – 8 June 1925

BLACK, Imogene  Nov 1897 -  Nov. 1941

BLACK, Emma  26 Nov 1897 – Nov. 1941

BLACK, Cynthia  8 June 1899 – 14 Feb 1936

SOIL, Jessie  6 July 1880 – 26 Feb 1926

SOIL, Clarence  11 Sep 1882 – 23 Oct 1897

BROWN, John  1857 – 1936

SOIL, Frank  22 Mar 1853 – 22 Dec 1922

BODKINS, Wm. Arthur  30 Aug 1906 – 22 Mar 1907

BODKINS, Lucy Ann  12 Feb 1908 – 15 Jan 1939

BODKINS, W. H. (Horace) 14 Apr 1868 – 17 July 1939

BODKINS, Mary F.  14 Feb 1873 – 19 May 1964

BODKINS, Zeno Douglas  10 Aug 1911 – 8 Mar 1913

BODKINS, Mildred Jeanette  14 July 1913 – 16 Aug 1913

LEE, Hughie  1887 – 1935

LEE, Frank  1861 – 1915
         Joseph

LEE, Lewis  died Nov. 21, 1919 (see Martinsburg Monitor Nov. 27, 1919)

ALLEN, Maymie  1875 - 1906
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BROWN, Jesse  1881 – 1885

KEMP, Bessie R.  14 Feb 1886 – 15 Feb 1928  

JOHNSON, Robert Lee  1943 – 1969

MAHANEY, Barbara N.  1941 – 1969

BROWN, Nevada M.  3 Mar 1907 – 23 Apr 1973

BROWN, Herman C.  25 June 1900 – 13 Mar 1971

BROWN, Anna M. 1868 – 1942

KEMP, Jasper Richard  Missouri PFC CO D 350 MG BN WWI  June 3, 1888–Mar 12,  1969

HOARD, Robert L.  Missouri TEC 4 US ARMY WW II   May 17, 1908 – Oct. 25, 1968

HOARD, Bertha E.  22 Aug 1909 – 23 Mar 2002

CAVES, Mintie

HILLARD, Edgar  1952 aged 76
                    Anna

WILLIAMS, Irene  1901 – 1965

KEMP, Bill

WILBURN, Henry W.  1879 – 1966

BROWN, Harold L.  1904 – 1941

SOIL, Hannah  22 Mar 1856 – 14 Jan 1942

GRIFFIN, Nellie  9 Mar 1908 – 8 Mar 1948

NICKENS, Jesse  1882 – 1962

NICKENS, Abram  aged 11  died 30 Sep 1884 (typhoid)

SOIL, Rev. Thomas J.  23 Nov 1883 – 28 Oct 1966  Married Apr. 25, 1915
SOIL, Stella French  14 Sep 1890 – 16 Jan 1974

BROOKENS, 1893 – 1965

BROOKENS, Eugene  1890 –  22 Mar 1969

BROOKENS, Carrie Jackson  died Mar. 13, 1965

BROOKINS, Mrs. Julia  18 Feb 1905 – 7 Feb 1960

BLACK, Lewis William  1 Aug 1880 – 25 Nov 1974

BLACK, infant Deborah  1952 – 1953

BLACK, Maurice M.  1902 – 1947

JONES, Arbie C.  1878 – 1973

MOORE, John  1865 – Aug. 5 or Aug. 11, 1913

WILLIAMS, Beatrice  7 July 1896 – 7 Jan 1985

WILLIAMS, Mary  1879 – 1965

NICKENS, Presley J.  5 Aug 1886 – 24 Oct 1943

NICKENS, Manuel

NICKENS, Sally

NICKENS, Henry  31 Jan 1950

CARTER, Dora

HOCKADAY, Ernest C. Missouri PVT US ARMY WW II  Feb. 18, 1928 – Mar. 14, 1973

HOCKADAY, Earnest C.  3 Aug 1892 – 25 Mar 1951

HOCKADAY, Leeoma  Apr. 20, 1907 – 7 Feb 1994

GREEN, Isaac  1890 – 1965

GREEN, Effie P.  1886 – 1973

ROSS, Rev. Wm.  1879 – 1941  5th Sunday, Union

HENDERSON, Mary I.  1888 – 1959

HENDERSON, Charles  1858 – 1950

JONES, Harriet Townsley  wife of H. Jones  15 May 1846 – 3 Feb 1910

Illegible inscription

THOMAS, Addie wife of Samuel  9 June 1876 – 10 May 1911

JONES, Harrison  7 Feb 1845 – 7 Apr 1915

WILLIAMS, Eliora  1890 – 1914

CHAMBERS, Virtie  1879 – 1921

WEBSTER, Ethel

Three Stones, no inscriptions

NICKENS, Henry Jr. 26 Nov 1923 – 16 Apr 1926  2 yr 4 mo 21 da

KEMP, John H.  18 Mar 1875 – 9 Sep 1953

KEMP, Paul

KEMP, Loraine

KEMP, Cathy

KEMP, Jewel H.  US NAVY WW II  9 Oct 1925 – 19 Jan 1999

NICKENS, Lucy  Jan. 1, 1851 – 8 Feb 1908

WILLIAMS, Henrietta

NICKENS, Mary Willie  13 Nov  1905 – 27 Sep 1982

NICKENS, Elmer Sr.  18 Oct 1898 – 6 Feb 1979
  
NICKENS, Pearl L.  27 Oct 1880 – 13 May 1968


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