There are approximately 198 people buried in the Osage Community Cemetery. Nearly one-quarter are from the Morgan and McMillan families; other family groups include the Goodes, Burfords, Shaws, Kenans, Caldwells, Taylors, Harrells, and Newsoms.
The monuments vary in design from simple, handmade sandstone markers to more elaborate false crypts. There are many with Masonic emblems and several with Confederate insignia.
William James McMillan’s homemade marker with Masonic emblem (above) and Gideon McLeary’s false crypt.
Cenotaph for Unmarked Graves
Dorothy Albrecht compiled the original list of the 198 grave sites in Osage. She started with an inventory found in the Nesbitt Memorial Library records in Columbus, TX, and added information from the records of the Old Osage Methodist Church, the microfilm archives of The Weimar Mercury and The Colorado Citizen (among other newspapers), obituaries, census data, marriage records, death certificates, and correspondence with surviving relatives.
In 2001, she collected donations to erect a cenotaph near the south entrance to commemorate those who were buried in Osage but whose headstones have been lost or were never marked. Albrecht is pictured to the left with Doug Goode, a direct descendent of the Goode family and caretaker of the cemetery for over 25 years.
Map of the Osage Community Cemetery, courtesy of Bob Pickens.
For more information about the Osage Community Cemetery, please contact our President, Rox Ann Johnson at roxannjohnson@me.com.