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Hope Cemetery


category : Cemeteries
Hope Cemetery was started late in 1874. More than 50 old soldiers and many of the first and best citizens are also at rest there.

Dr. G.W. McMillan, the first physician to reach the side of President Lincoln after he was shot, is buried in Hope Cemetery.


Phone: 620-449-2320

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St. Francis Cemetery

St. Francis Cemetery, located half a mile east of St. Paul, is by succession the oldest cemetery in Neosho county known to have been used by white people. When the Jesuits first came to the Osage country in 1847

St. Paul, KS Cemeteries

St. Francis Hieronymo Church

In 1847, the Mother Church of the Diocese of Wichita was set up in one of the government-built log structures at the Catholic Osage Mission. The missionaries dedicated the church to the patronage of St. Francis Hieronymo, a Jesuit, who had been canonized by the Church as a saint on May 10, 1839

St. Paul, KS Historic Churches

Neosho Wildlife Area

Traveling through St. Paul on Highway 57, a visitor may get different hints of the proximity of the Neosho Wildlife Area. There is the Neosho River, the lowlands to the east and the west, with stilt-like houses, suggesting high waters on occasion.

St. Paul, KS Wildlife Areas



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Hope Cemetery

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