Cason Family Cemetery

Off old highway 54 just south of the small town of Myakka, in Callaway County. The only way to get to this cemetery is with permission from the land owner. You need to park on their farm and walk across a field and into the woods.

This cemetery was surrounded by an iron fence and you can tell it was a very elegant cemetery many years ago, much more expensive headstones and marble dividers than the usual family cemetery in the county. According to a listing from 1972, there are one or two unmarked inside and 30 or more rough filed stones marking slave burials outside of the east fence. When we visited in 2010, this cemetery was in pretty bad shape. It has been heavily vandalized and is terribly overgrown, many of the headstones that are left are down or broken, but are still readable. There are more burials than those listed here, but headstones are not readable or are destroyed.

This is not a complete listing of burials.