SCHERMESSER FARM CEMETERY

This was copied from "Ozark Heritage Dent County Missouri Area Cemeteries & Families" Vol III 1994 by Ken Fiebelman of Salem, MO. Reprinted with the permission of Ken Fiebelman on behalf of the Dent County Historical Society

Submitted by Kathy Welch Heidel

Located Osage Twn. --- owned by Gamblin Family, later Nail & Schermesser families, later Vernon Kettinger

FUCHS, JOSEPH; m. Anna, no ch.: half-bro. to Joseph Schermesser

FUCHS, ANNA w/o Joseph 3/3/1840 - 8/12/1920

GAMBLIN, WILLIAM HENRY d. 1889 or befor; m. Fredonia Bradford Green who later m. William C. Huitt (both bur. Union Cem.); to Dent Co. from KY at close of Civil War, settled 10 miles E. of Salem;

GAMBLIN, Inf. ch. of William Henry & Fredonia ?GAMBLIN, GINSEY w/o William -- there are 4 or 5 unmarked Gamblin graves

NAIL, JOHN HENRY b. 5/2/1842, Jackson Co. OH, s/o John (b. 1812), m. Lucinda, 4/25/1834 (b. 1818);m. Mary R. Horton, 5 ch.: Oscar, Cora E. Schermesser, Sarah Josephine (m. Weilliam T. E. Worley, mother of Dick Nail "Bowers" ---she is bur. Warden Cem.), Margaret "Maggie" (m. C. F. Farney, 1895, Dent Co. by Rev. John Worsham), & Ella (Mrs. Charles Frank Hogue, 1891, Dent Co. by B. V. Gregory, J. P.)---bur. Sligo Cem.; bro. to : Rachel Ann, Mary, Leucretia, Silas James, Sarah Jane, Catherine & William Allen; Civil War Co. H 1st Ohio; to Dent Co. from Jackson Co. OH

NAIL, MARY RACHEL w/o John H., nee Horton

NAIL, OSCAR s/o John H. & Mary R.

RIGSBY, WILLIAM or JAMES d. Civil War

SCHERMESSER, CORA EDITH 8/9/1869 - 1/17/1921, family home d/o John H. & Mary M. Nail; m. Joseph Schermesser, 1887, Dent Co. ---by Rev. John M. Ashlock (b. 1862, d. 11/1942, bur Cedar Grove Cem.), 7 ch.: Wilbur "Anton" (m. Irene R. Ritchhart of Sligo, 7/1920, d/o Edward C. & Della V. Freeman Ritchhart, Irene d. 5/23/1988, bur. Mt. Laki Cem., Klamath Falls, OR) Joe Jr., Arthur T. (m. Beatrice Blackwell, d. young man bur. Blackwell Cem.), Catherine (m. William Walker)---bur. Cedar Grove Cem., Mary (Mrs. Francis Walker), Anna (Mrs. Lawrence Hammonds)---bur. North Lawn Cem., & Inf.; to Dent Co. c1880, lived Parkview School Dist.

SCHERMESSER, INF, of Joe & Cora *(c16 unmarked graves --- 1 with H. A. on rock)