Crowley's Ridge Parkway
Billy DeMint Grave, MO

This is the famous site where a ten-year-old boy was killed during the Civil War for refusing to tell a group of guerrillas where his father was. Billy DeMint is a true legend in southeast Missouri. In 1941 a stone was placed where the community felt the grave was.

Some years after this marker was set in place, the REA was extending light service to the Henderson house east of the grave. In drilling a hole for the pole, the workers struck a corner of Billy DeMint's grave, proving that this was indeed the exact location where he was hung and buried.