Cemeteries of Cherokee County: Green Lawn Traditional Cache
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Cemeteries of Cherokee County: Green Lawn
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Another quiet, country cemetery!
In 1873, there stood a family farm where the Green Lawn School was later built. Edgar and Hannah Botsford lived there with their two children, Minnie and Cassius, who were nine and seven years old at the time.
Edgar died that year at the age of 51 and was carried by hand across the fields to the northeast corner of the farm and laid to rest in a four-acre plot in what is now a part of the Green Lawn Cemetery. The graves of Edgar and Hannah, who died in 1901, can be found in a short way south of the small building that is used for an office. The inscription on their grave marker read, "Founders of the Green Lawn Cemetery, 1873". The daughter, Minnie Botsford Skinner was laid to rest there in 1934.
The first record the Green Lawn Association has of an organization is a corporation charter granted to them by the state of Kansas on October 22, 1880. Hannah Botsford and her children gave full title and deed for the four acres being used as a burial site for the Green Lawn Cemetery Association on July 31, 1885 as the promissory note had been completely paid by then.
Cassius Botsford, better known as Cash, took up the responsibility of secretary and sexton in 1888. He was 21 years old at the time and continued to hold that post for 55 years until 1943. Cash died in 1946.
On February 15, 1922 an agreement was reached with Mr. Botsford to buy an additional plot of four acres on the south side of the original plot for $500.00. This became Addition II and doubled the size of the cemetery.
An impressive monument was added to the cemetery in 1940. The inscription read "In Memory of the Unknown Dead".
Four additional acres on the east side of the existing property were purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Christenberry on July 16, 1973.
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