Noland Cemetery Group, Inc. - Platte County MO

07/22/2026

Dear Friends of Noland Cemetery, In addition to our annual update of the ongoing work at Noland Cemetery, we also have some sad news to share this year.

To begin, we completed our final round of stone re-setting last Fall. While there will always be some occasional need for stone re-setting, we don’t expect it to be on the large scale these last few have been, when we were catching up on decades of settling. Our mowers, ARL Family Lawn and Landscape, continue to provide excellent service at a generous rate, and we also carry on with other routine maintenance work.

We are heartbroken to inform you of the passing of founding Board Member, Rebecca Vogt (nee Harrington). Rebecca grew up in the house her father built next door to the cemetery, where many of her ancestors are buried. She made a point of introducing her children to the cemetery as well, sharing her love of old Platte County and its history with us. This Board would not exist without her inspiration and years of support.

Additionally, we are sad to share we have lost a long-time friend and supporter with the passing of Fred Bradshaw. ‘Freddy’ was, according to Rebecca, “the nicest boy” she knew as children, and a beloved relative and friend to many in the area and on the NCG Board. Long after leaving Platte County, he maintained his connections to family and friends back home, and continued to be a generous supporter of the cemetery.

While we mourn these losses, our dedication to the cemetery remains. We would be delighted to spread awareness of our mission, especially to younger generations. If you know of anyone with an interest in local history, or looking for service projects, please send them our way!

Finally, we will be working this Fall on the usual upkeeping tasks: applying water seal to the bridge and replacing any damaged treads, spraying all of the stones with D2 cleaner, brush cleanup, and poison ivy spraying. If you would like to help with any of this work, to visit, or to discuss anything regarding the cemetery, please contact me at 816-916-2523.

As always, we thank you for your support.

-Susanna Vogt

09/28/2024

Nice morning to be out doing a little work! Replaced some treads on the bridge and gave it a fresh coat of water seal, trimmed some branches and sprayed some poison ivy.

08/09/2024

As I researched the cemetery genealogy, I came across some stories about the people and their lives and families that I found interesting. These are a few mini-bios I ended up putting together. These include a line-of-duty officer death, a tornado, Civil War stories, and in the Owens paragraphs I delve just a tiny bit into some of the tangle of inter-connections and marriages throughout the cemetery that at times had my head spinning.

Please note this isn't anything formal, just some cleaned-up notes I collected as I tried to keep everything straight or make note of things of interest.

If there's anyone from your family at the cemetery in particular you'd like me to look into further, please let me know and I'll see what I can find. Or, if you have information to add or corrections to share, please do so!

08/06/2024

Curious about our Board of Directors? Here's a quick summary of how we all are associated with the Cemetery! There are, of course, many more connections and inter-marriages with other families, but these are the direct family lines for each member.

09/27/2023

We have had a BUSY year! We are super excited to share we have successfully completed another round of stone re-setting as well as a unique preservation of the cemetery founders’ stones. Huge thanks to Austin, Alex, and Nathan with Johnsons and Sons Monument Company for their hours of hard work as well as their ingenuity and helpful discussions on cemetery care!

Click through to see just some of these amazing improvements. We even uncovered a couple of names that had been face down for many years, and the cemetery looks better than ever!

08/21/2023

At the center of our group's purpose is to honor the lives and memories of the people buried at the cemetery. These are a handful of photographs of some of the individuals who lived into the era of photography. If anyone has any old family photos that might include some of the others buried at Noland Cemetery, we would deeply appreciate if you would be willing to share them with us!

08/19/2023

Annual Update for 2023!

With this year’s update we continue to have several new developments to share:

To begin with, once we finished the initial cleaning of all existing gravestones, we began two projects:

1. Burial map – the pencil draft has been completed and will be shared soon, once we have created a digital version.

2. Documentation of the lives of those at rest in the cemetery – we have been working on tracing the genealogy and connections of each individual and putting it all in a database, as well as documenting the history of the Noland family and the cemetery’s origins.

With all this information compiled, we needed a place to share it, so… we now have a website! Please visit https://sujavo.wixsite.com/noland-cemetery to see historical information, genealogy, photos, our wish list, and more. (You can also donate online with a PayPal account!)

In addition, the Board has authorized another round of stone re-setting and repair. As you probably know, this is expensive work and we can’t do everything we would like to at once. We were able to do one round of repair in 2015 on some of the most damaged stones, and we are following that up with more this Summer/Fall, again focusing on the stones that are most in need of rescue and able to be saved.

As we finish out these projects, we are also looking toward future improvements. Among these, we would like to address fencing in the next year. Again, this would be an expensive undertaking and we may only be able to do a portion at a time. If you would like to donate to the fence fund, we would deeply appreciate any extra assistance we can get!

Board members will be available to meet with you to discuss our work if you’d like to join us at the cemetery on Saturday, September 9 at 10:00am.

As always, we thank you for your donations and all you’ve done to support our efforts!

06/28/2023

Excited to share we now have a website! This site contains historical background, genealogy research for all burials, photos of each grave marker, historical documents, and more. We are very close to finishing a burial map as well. Please check it out!

Historical information, burials, and genealogy for Noland Cemetery in Platte County, MO off of Hampton Rd/K Hwy and Custer Dr.

05/27/2023

Yesterday was a beautiful day to be out at the cemetery for some research. Now that the stones have been cleaned, we are working on identifying every person we can & eventually mapping and even doing some genealogy.

The cemetery is freshly mowed and trimmed for Memorial Day and the weekend is looking to stay beautiful!