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English: Pioneer Cemetery in Lawrence, KS, facing northeast. The burial grounds were originally known as Oread Cemetery in the 19th century. These graves markers were for the members of the 13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, who died of typhoid in 1862.
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Oak Hill Cemetery: Lawrence: Douglas: Quantrill raid victims, Langston Hughes' grandparents, and many war veterans; once called by William Allen White the "Kansas Arlington" [7] Simerwell Cemetery: Near Auburn: Shawnee: A rural cemetery where the first white female born in Kansas is buried. [8] Sunset Cemetery: Manhattan: Riley
The grave marker of abolitionist Thomas Barber in Pioneer Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas (2018). Barber's death inspired the poet John Greenleaf Whittier to write a poem titled Burial of Barber . During the siege, the main body of the invaders were encamped near the small pro-slavery settlement Franklin , located to the southeast of Lawrence ...
The first cemetery in Lawrence, Pioneer Cemetery, is on the University of Kansas campus and is maintained by KU. ... Douglas County was the only county in Kansas to ...
The church is in Franklin County and the cemetery is in Douglas County. 4: Bailey Hall: Bailey Hall: October 22, 2001 : Junction of Jayhawk Dr. and Sunflower Rd. Lawrence: 5: Baldwin City School and Auditorium-Gymnasium
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The State of Iowa defines "pioneer cemetery" as "a cemetery where twelve or fewer burials have taken place in the past 50 years". [2]The State of Nebraska defines an "abandoned or neglected pioneer cemetery" as having been founded or situated upon land that "was given, granted, donated, sold, or deeded to the founders of the cemetery prior to January 1, 1900", and that "contains the grave or ...