Mount Mora Cemetery

{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Buchanan County, Missouri, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Mount Mora Cemetery

| nrhp_type =

| image = Mount-mora.jpg

| caption = Entrance on Mount Mora Street

| location = 824 Mount Mora Rd., St. Joseph, Missouri

| coordinates = {{coord|39|46|33|N|94|50|31|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Missouri#USA

| architect = Powell, W. Angelo; Noyes, John

| architecture = Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian

| added = July 19, 2006

| area = {{convert|20|acre}}

| refnum = 06000626{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Mount Mora Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri. Among those who are buried in the cemetery are three governors, a U.S. senator, soldiers from both sides in the American Civil War and riders of the Pony Express.{{cite web| url =http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/06000626.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mount Mora Cemetery| access-date = 2016-09-01| author=Barbara Turner| date=January 2006|publisher=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}} In October 2006, several headstones including that of Missouri governor Silas Woodson were damaged by vandals.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2006.

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