Aiken Cemetery
Chautauqua County
Kansas

The Aiken cemetery also known as Burton is located in Washington Township in the northwest corner of S16 - T33s - R13N, right in the corner of the pasture owned by Dessie Aiken. The coordinates are 37.1797855N and -095.9824858W, which places it at the intersection of the Independence Road and County Road #31. It is an old neglected small cemetery on the south side of Road #31, no longer fenced with only one stone remaining to mark a burial. In it is found two or three field stones but only one can be partially read. Just across the road east and a little south is the Lone Cherry Church. Mr. Guy found the following inscription in the mid 1980s, but the words are no longer legible.

       NAME	                  Born	        Died	           Comment

CUNNINGHAM, Samantha Ellen      03 Aug 1848   26 Aug 1886
W. W.                                                      another small stone with
                                                           only the two initials

Family members of Samantha have related that Samantha died giving birth to her sixth
child who also died and is buried here. Also Samantha's daughter and child are buried 
here plus other relatives.

Read in January 1986 by Mr. Guy, and photographed in October 2006 by Don Tharp.