Phelps Co. Cemeteries
The Plum Creek Massacre Cemetery in northern Phelps County rests on the open prairie as a quiet reminder of the struggles the early pioneers endured to settle the country. Three monuments within a fenced area are protected to the west by a row of cedar trees.
The seventeen cemeteries in Phelps County have been documented and published by the Phelps County Genealogical Society and are available at the Nebraska Prairie Museum.
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1. Plum Creek - site of Plum Creek Massacre in 1864 2. Adullam - first burial in 1903 3. Platte Valley - originally Homes Cemetery, first burial 1881 4. Williamsburg - first burial 1895 5. Magill - originally Westmark Cemetery, first burial 1882 6. Sandstrom - originally Westmark Cemetery, first burial 1882 7. Westlanda or Immanuel - first burial 1886 8. Bertrand or Highland - burials as early as 1886 9. Moses Hill - first burial in 1877 10. Loomis - no longer in use, first burials in 1898 11. Fridhem - former site of Bethel Lutheran Church 12. Bethel Lutheran - original site of Bethel Lutheran Church 13. Industry - deeded in 1884 14. Urbana - earliest burial 1892, latest burial 1945
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