It is known as the Carola Cemetery, the Berger Cemetery, or the Oglesville Cemetery. In earlier years it was also called the Lower Qulin Cemetery.
The information was taken from newspapers and funeral home records and is printed as it was found. Nothing has been changed.
Some graves have no headstones.
We would like to express a very special thanks to the following funeral homes for allowing us to search the old record books for earlier records:
Landess Funeral Homes of Campbell and Malden, Missouri
Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home of Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Cotrell Funeral Home of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Charles F. Hinrichs was born in Warin, Mecklenburg-Schwein, Germany to C.D. and Louise Priester Hinrichs on 15 FEB 1828. At the age of 16 he immigrated to America. In 1847 Charles Hinrichs returned to Germany in order to bring his family to Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
In 1861 Hinrichs married Malinda Maye, who died in 1879. The following year he married Belle Cook. They had four children: Charles Jr.,Arvid, Mary and Lincoln.
Hinrichs enlisted in the Missouri State Militia in 1861 and the following year joined Company L, 10th Missouri Volunteers Cavalry as a First Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain in August 1863. Following the war Hinrichs settled near Gillis Bluff in southern Butler County Missouri and engaged in a profitable farming and livestock business. He also invested in Butler County real estate and mining interests.
In 1879 Hinrichs retired and moved to Poplar Bluff Missouri.
In 1881 Hinrichs persuaded a group of Germans to immigrate to America and settle on his land at Gillis Bluff. The settlement became known as Carola. The colonists established a German newspaper, a Post system and a saw mill. They purchased a steamboat, the Belle of Carola, which ran between Carola and Poplar Bluff.
The handicaps of inert farming practices, inadequate drainage system and recurrent epidemics of Malaria led to the demise of the Hinrichs Colony.
Charles Hinrichs died in 1902 and is buried at Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Many descendants of the German settlers are still living in the Carola and Gillis Bluff area.
We have prepared this book in hopes that it will help future generations to trace their family ancestors.
Larry and Wilma Daniels
May, 1999
The Carola Cemetery is located off N Highway from Qulin Missouri, traveling south for 5 miles to turn left on County Road 243, then less than one mile on the right.