Wyandot National Burying Ground

Date: 1843 [unknown]
Location: Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Native_Americans Wyandot

Contents 1 General Information 2 History 3 Burials 3.1 Notable Monuments 3.2 Notable Interments 4 More Information 5 Sources

General Information

Cemetery name: Wyandot National Burying Ground (also known as Huron Cemetery; Huron Indian Cemetery; Wyandot National Cemetery; Wyandotte National Burying Ground; Eliza Burton Conley Burial Site)

Address: North 7th Street Trafficway and Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas

GPS coordinates: 39.11520, -94.62590

History

In the heart of downtown Kansas City, Kansas, this cemetery is an important Wyandot burial ground. Many members of Wyandot families prominent in Kansas City, including Armstrong, Barnett, Clark, Hicks, Zane and others are buried there. The Huron Indian Cemetery was the subject of a long-fought legal case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was argued on behalf of the Wyandots by Lyda Burton Conley, the first American Indian woman to be admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.

The "Huron Cemetery" was placed on the National Register of Historic Places 3 September 1971. ^[1]

The "Wyandotte National Burying Ground, Eliza Burton Conley Burial Site" was listed as a National Historic Landmark 23 December 2016. ^{[2] [3]}

Burials

• Wyandot National Burying Ground Category page
• Wyandot Burials - Wyandot Nation of Kansas website
• Connelley, William E. and Larry Hancks (ed.), Huron Place, The Burial Ground of the Wyandot Nation in Wyandotte County, Kansas, 1897 (Kansas City, Kansas: City of Kansas City, Kansas, 1991). Includes grave descriptions, brief historical data. Electronic copy available online at Wyandot Nation of Kansas website

Notable Monuments

• Silas Armstrong and his second wife Zelinda Armstrong
• Hiram Milton Northrup

Notable Interments

• Lyda Burton Conley

More Information

• Huron Indian Cemetery on FindAGrave
• Wikipedia: Huron Cemetery
• Wyandot Nation of Kansas website
• The Wyandotte Nation website

Sources

1. ↑ "National Register Database and Research," database online, National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm :accessed 12 August 2022), entry for Reference Number 71000335, Huron Cemetery, listed 9/3/1971.
2. ↑ "National Register Database and Research," database online, National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm :accessed 12 August 2022), entry for Reference Number 100000794, Wyandotte National Burying Ground, Eliza Burton Conley Burial Site, listed 12/23/2016.
3. ↑ Kansas SP Huron Cemetery [NAID: 123865034]; National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Kansas, 1/1/1964 - 12/31/2013; National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017; Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006; National Archives at College Park - Electronic Records (RDE), National Archives at College Park, College Park, Maryland; online version on 12 August 2022 available through the NARA online catalog at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123865034.

See also:

• "Site for Government Building - Huron Cemetery, the Last Resting Place of the Wyandottes, Suggested." The Kansas City Gazette (Kansas City, Kansas), 03 April 1899 (Mon.), p. 1, col. 1; digital images, Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-gazette-huron-place-ceme/17643747/ : originally downloaded 21 February 2018).