Thompson Family Cemetery, Brazito, MO

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Thompson Family Cemetery, Brazito, MO Easterly view of Thompson Family Cemetery near Brazito, Missouri, 2017. The mule shoe was unearthed during excavation around the monument during restoration in 1997. It may have come from a mule used by Henry Tomson to farm this land prior to the Civil War. More likely, the mules were used by a subsequent owner to plow the cemetery under when the farm came under new ownership after Henry Tomson's death in 1862. Elmer Ott of DeLong Steel of Jefferson City, the company that fabricated the fencing, welded the shoe to the fence along with iron mountings for the bronze plaques. As of 2017, Mr. Ott, a master builder and craftsman, was deceased.