Mount Hope [Rosean] Cemetery, Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, USA

Notes: The Mount Hope Cemetery, also known as ROSEAN Cemetery, is located in Section 36, Township 17, Range 11, nearly ten miles to the NE of Emporia, Lyon, Kansas.



One acre of land was deeded to the Cemetery Association on 13 February 1871 by Carl and Millie SCHEEL. Carl SCHEEL came to the locality in 1858.



According to the story as read from the tombstone inscriptions, John H. ROSEAN, who died in 1859 at the age of 78 years, must have been one of the oldest men to come to the county of Breckenridge (now Lyon County). He was born in 1781. Mary his wife died in 1871 and child of theirs was buried in 1868. It was after the ROSEAN family that the cemetery was named.



T. J. HILL, died in March of 1868 and his wife Malinda died 22 November 1866. All dates much earlier than the date given in the recorded deed.


The SAYLORS, HILL, and KURSON families were early settlers. Fred KURSON came in 1858 and was a driver on the old Burlingame Trail.



The old District No. 37 School House stands in front of the cemetery, is still well kept and currently [2007] used as the "Fremont Township town hall".



MY NOTE: This cemetery is the burial place of Rosa Jane [Hampton] SPEECE - mother of Katherine Ann Speece. According to her 1899 obituary, funeral services were held in the "Rosean school house" and her body interred in the "Rosean cemetery" -- though I have been unable to find a grave marker (at least as of August 2007).

Latitude: 38.53444 N, Longitude: -96.14639 W