Rose Bank Cemetery and Genealogical Records

This Hub is for a reader, Betty Judy, interested in the Rose Bank Cemetery in Mulberry, Kansas.

A previous Hub reviewed the city of Mulberry and provided a few research links that could be helpful in tracing ancestors' burials at Rose Bank Cemetery. These include:

• Buffalo Soldiers
  records of the war with the Native Americans from 1868 - 1869.
• City Of Mulberry - Mulberry, KS 66756 - (620)764-3315
  City street map, some business listings, contact information for City Hall.
• Crawford County, Kansas Free Public Records Directory:
  Here you will find property records, marriage and divorce certificates, background checks, inmates, court records, sex offenders, business licenses and other materials. You can search these records online at the link.
• Crawford County - Kansas State Historical Society
  Extensive holdings regarding Kansas history, including City of Mulberry.
• Museum of Crawford County - Girard, KS
  This is different from the Crawford County Historical Museum.

Any one or all of these organizations might have some genealogical records of burials in Rose Bank Cemetery.

A Google search turned up as the top listing, a partial listing of burials at "Rosebank Cemetery" and these include last names (surnames) beginning with the letters M through Z. This page is provided by Internment.net, a site that includes increasing numbers of burial records recorded online throughout the USA. The people that offered the burial records mentioned above are Connie Fenimore at tazfan57@hotmail.com; Jane Hoey at janeh@socket.net; Karen Burdett at kburdett@ipa.net, and RJ at rejeanazg@aol.com.

The entire list of burial records that Internment.net has posted online for Rosebank is located at: Rosebank/index.htm. Carol Brooks seems to be the individual that has contributed the greatest number of records to the online database for Rosebank and this includes the records of  2,650 people, last updated on June 25, 2009. Ms. Brooks notes that cemetery records burned in the 1920s during a fire and some burials have no records, accordingly. Some graves were unmarked, but senior citizens volunteered to walk through the cemetery and report to City Hall about graves in which they knew the buried individuals. It is quite a remarkable database in view of the fire.

For additional records that might not yet be posted to the site, contact the Mulberry City Hall at phone number (620) 764-3315.

Additional burial and other records for Crawford County cemeteries and Mulberry residents in the 1800s might be found at:

• Kansas Territorial Census for 1855
• US Census of 1880

At least 14 cemeteries lie in Crawford County, Kansas and it is possible that relatives and ancestors have been buried in a cemetery different from Rosebank or Rose Bank. In addition, Rosebank was formerly called Mulberry Cemetery, and possibly Crafton Cemetery before that, and may have been a Native American Burial Ground prior to that time. In fact, local Native American organizations might keep burial records from that time - notably Cherokee and Chippewa.

At least 27 cemeteries are within 10 miles of Rosebank and 4 are within 5 miles and these final 4 could be examined for records before going on the the remaining 22:

1. Garden of Memories Cemetery in Crawford County
2. Shirley Cemetery in Crawford County
3. Smilie Cemetery, Crawford County
4. Yale Cemetery in Barton County, MO

Check Internment.net for each of these cemeteries and their online records.

Other places to check for records and human memories would be the local library (Arma City Library) in Crawford County, KS and the Mulberry Homecoming Festival held in during changing dates, but often in springtime. Mulberry itself has fewer than 600 residents.

More genealogy information is located at this link at "The Little Balkands of Southeast Kansas."

Morman Family History Centers in Kansas are operated for many surnames. Call Mulberry City Hall to see if your family is included in one of them.

This site has another database of transcribed burial records for Rosebank Cemetery. Teh link to this website and their records is HERE.

A series of photographs of headstones of Civil War Vetereans buried in Rosebank Cemetery in Crawford Country is located HERE.

Additional photos are located on Rootsweb.