Hutto Cemetery

T.A. Boatright buried a family child and her husband, E.B., here in the late 1880s when the site was known as Elmwood Cemetery. In 1889, she bought land here from C.P. and Julia Crews. Several graves already existed in addition ...

Pioneer Cemetery

California Pioneers

Reinterred From

Poverty Bar Cemetery

[Left Column]

Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun

Elva Lucy Drennan

Mr. Hussky

[Right Column]

John Laplasse

Christian Kientz

Henry Christian Kientz

---Were known to have been buried at Poverty Bar Cemetery now covered by ...

Hopewell Cemetery

Pioneers who settled here in the 1840s and established the town of Hopewell faced many hardships, including Indian raids. Wofford and Mary Johnson and their daughter were killed by Comanches nearby in 1863. They were buried at this site near ...

Old Copper Culture Cemetery

At this site approximately 4,500 years ago, Wisconsin Indians gathered to bury their dead. Because of their use of copper tools, weapons and ornaments, this group became known as the Old Copper people. They fashioned spearpoints, knives and fishhooks from ...

Kingston Cemetery

Site of “Conference On Horseback,” January 3, 1777, at which Washington decided to move toward Morristown rather than New Brunswick . . . . a decision that probably prevented a critical American defeat.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street ...

Columbia Masonic Cemetery

This Masonic Cemetery has been in continuous use since 1853. Many Masons buried here were gold miners and soldiers. Wives and children of Masons are also interred here. Some are known only to God.

"Soft and safe to thee, my brother, ...

Pine Grove Cemetery G.A.R. Memorial

G.A.R.

Marker can be reached from Grand Avenue (Business U.S. 51) near Bernard Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Merrilltown Cemetery

This burial ground has served the surrounding area since the early 1850s. Most of those interred here lived in the Merrilltown community, which Captain Nelson Merrell (d. 1879) established when he settled here in 1837. He operated the post office ...

Bratton Cemetery

Kentucky native John Bratton (1812 - 1855) came to Texas with his family in 1837. Ten years later, Bratton purchased land in this area and set aside one acre for use as a burial ground for family and friends. The ...

Jewish Section of Riverdale Cemetery

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The earliest recorded Jewish burials in Columbus were in historic Linwood Cemetery and in the Raphael Moses family cemetery, Esquiline. When the City of Columbus established Riverdale Cemetery in 1890, Temple Israel purchased a piece of this property which ...