Downing Cemetery Still Exists, 129 Years After Public Access Halted

Downing Cemetery, near Kelso, is inaccessible to the public without permission. Kelso is 6 miles northwest of Council Grove as the crow flies, and Downing Cemetery is less than a mile west of the Kelso Cemetery. On June 5, 1893, Siloma Downing deed the cemetery to Morris County.On June 21,

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