Handwritten Grave Marker in the Sappington African American Cemetery

ID: 525 ~ Date: 2021

This file appears in: Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour

Handwritten Grave Marker in the Sappington African American Cemetery — Photo by Kayla Gorrell

This file appears in: Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour

Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Kayla Gorrell

The Sappington African American Cemetery is located on Route AA, southwest of the town of Arrow Rock in Saline County, Missouri. In 1856, Dr. John B. Sappington of Arrow Rock provided this small lot to bury enslaved people who had died. As was…