Phelps Co. Cemeteries
category : 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.
Phone: 308-995-5015
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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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