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Mount Muncie Cemetery (1866) is tucked into a hillside along the Lansing/Leavenworth border and within view of Leavenworth National Cemetery. It has many famous graves, including Kansas' second Governor, Fred Harvey (Harvey House Restaurants), D. R. Anthony (Susan B's brother and important in Kansas during the Bloody years) and Walter Cronkite's mother.
The most infamous graves are those of prisoners that were hung at the nearby Lansing Correctional Facility, including the murderers from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Mount Muncie Cemetery also contains two "baby mounds" of infant and children's graves. They are unique to this cemetery, or at least the name for them is unique. A detailed web search could find no other mentions of them. The baby mounds are concentric rings of small headstones surrounding a small sculpture. The earliest mound appears to have nearly 1000 graves. 732 were buried there just in the first 11 years that the cemetery was open. Many of those in the first burials were eventually moved to family plots, and I'm not sure if those graves were reused, or the stones left behind.
The newest baby mound is still in use and has 363 stones at this writing. The stones in the outer, more recent rings are flat.