Historians search for unmarked graves in Johnson County’s Shawnee Methodist Mission Cemetery

The cemetery is the final resting place for Reverend Thomas Johnson, a Methodist minister who moved to Kansas in the 1830’s to start a Methodist children’s school on Shawnee tribal land.The cemetery is the final resting place for Reverend Thomas Johnson, a Methodist minister who moved to Kansas in the 1830’s to start a Methodist children’s school on Shawnee tribal land.