KANSAS CITY, Mo. — More than a dozen residents in Lafayette County gathered at a small, historical cemetery Friday to honor the lives of three African-American Civil War soldiers. The service ...

RURAL LAFAYETTE – Harriet Walkup died a month ago at age 96. But she lives through a long-abandoned, now restored pioneer cemetery hidden in the woods next to her Wea Township home. It’s on ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A group of eighth-grade students have helped clean veterans’ gravestones in a mostly abandoned cemetery once used by prominent black Kansas City-area residents in an effort… ...

Students at Academie Lafayette learned about the historic but run-down Highland Cemetery and wanted to help. Four days before Memorial Day, they cleaned engravings and planted flags to honor veterans.