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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

Author Unknown

Rowland Stark
Born 1787 Died 1840
Sarah "Sally" (McCorkle) Stark
Born 1802 Died 1891
Winslow Cemetery
DeKalb County, Missouri
Franklin Stark
Born 1838 Died 1921
Lucinda Stark
Born 1840 Died 1911

Frankin and Lucinda are buried in WInslow Cemetery, DeKalb County Missouri, also Florence and her husband, M.H. Neal, and two infants of Elisha and Missouri Jane Stark.
Cemetery is located about 5 or 6 miles southeast of King City, Missouri. The Old Town of WInslow is completely gone.
Clarence Stark
Born 1883 Died 1966
Osha R. Stark
Born 1883 Died 1974
Winslow Cemetery

Aubrey Clarence Starks
Son of
C & O Starks
Born Jan 1, 1907
Died April 6, 1920

Jesse & Eva Stark
Son of Elisha & Missouri Jane Stark
Eva 1889-1984
Jesse 1884-1976
Larry L. Stark
Son of Buddie & Pat Stark
Born Sept. 25 1954
Died. June 13, 1997
Ival J. Stark (Twin of Ivan)
Born 11-25-1910
Died 12-28-1910
Son of Jesse & Eva Stark
Lethal McGuire
Daughter of Jess & Eva Stark
Born: 1908
Died: 1970
Grandview Cemetery,
Albany, Mo. October-2000
Elisha & Missouri Jane Stark
Elisha: 1859-1941
Missouri Jane: 1866-1941
Mabel & Robert (Bob) Stark
Mabel: Born 1901, still living.
Robert: 1901-1945 -son of
Elisha & M. Jane Stark
William Thomas & Sarah Edna Stark
Sarah Edna: 1897-1974
William Thomas: 1890-1973 -son of
Elisha & M. Jane Stark
Lawrence J. Stark
1st Lt 91 AAF Bomber GP
Killed in action in World War II
Mar 10 1916 - May 13 1943
Son of William Thomas & Sarah Edna Stark
Josie & William Baldock
William: 1885-1947
Josie: 1894-1985 -daughter of
Elisha & M. Jane Stark
PEC Clifford L. Bladock
BTRY C. 59th AFA BN
Oct. 26 1923 - May 9 1983
Grandson of Elisha & M. Jane
& son of Josie & William Baldock.
Alice Fern (Stark) Morgan &
daughter Alta Ann Morgan
Alice: June 7 1903 - April 18 1993
Alta: April 9 1933 - Jan 24 1982
Harry A. & Lottie L. Hopkins
Harry: 1893-1968
Lottie: 1897-1965 - daughter of
Elisha & M. Jane Stark
Eugene & Wilda Martin
Eugene: June 5 1900 - Oct. 10, 1964
Wilda: Aug. 22, 1909 - May 23, 1993
Daughter of Elisha & M. Jane Stark
Beverly Jean Martin & Vincent R. Robertson
Vincent: 1930 - Still living
Beverly Jean: 1932-1982
daughter of Gene & Wilda Martin
Granddaughter of Elisha & M. Jane Stark

Waive Lou (Stark) Weldon
April 24, 1899 - May 15, 1999
Daughter of Elisha and M. Jane Stark
Herschel & Lorraine Spainhower
Herschel: 1906-1993
Lorraine: Born 1907 - Still living.
Daughter of Elisha & M. Jane Stark.
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(Poem by 12 year old Rowland boy)
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