Mount Mora Cemetery is a historic cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri. Among those who are buried in the cemetery are three governors, a U.S. senator, soldiers from both sides in the American Civil War and riders of the Pony Express. In October 2006, several headstones including that of Missouri governor Silas Woodson were damaged by vandals.
The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2006.
Notable interments Daniel Dee Burnes (1851–1899), politician James N. Burnes (1827–1889), politician James Craig (1818–1888), military officer and politician William True Davis (1919-2003), Head of the National Bank of Washington and Ambassador to Switzerland Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845-1934), architect Elijah Gates (1827–1915), politician Willard Preble Hall (1820–1882), politician Benjamin F. Loan (1819–1881), military officer and politician Mary Alicia Owen (1850-1935), author and folklorist William Ridenbaugh (1821–1874), journalist Robert Marcellus Stewart (1815–1871), politician M. Jeff Thompson (1826–1876), military officer and politician Robert Wilson (1803–1870), politician Sir William Wiseman (1814–1874), British naval officer Silas Woodson (1819–1896), politician Huston Wyeth (1863–1925), industrialist
See also List of Registered Historic Places in Missouri, Counties A-B#Buchanan County
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