The day after the Battle of Moore's Mill, heat and the decomposition of the bodies led Union Col. Oden Guitar to order a mass grave dug. In a 1908 letter, Elijah Hopper of Co. F, 9th Missouri Militia, recalled that after the fight, the dead from both sides were collected and buried near a store on the 29th. Capt. Sylvester Penny, a member of Porter's 1st NE Missouri Cavalry, was mortally wounded and died the next day, and he was buried in an unmarked grave in an orchard on the Strother Farm. Jones Tanyard is now Calwood, and Moore's Mill has disappeared into the shrubs and brush of its original location northeast of the store.
