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Wyuka Cemetery was established in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, which sought to provide a cemetery for the state capital city founded two years prior. [3] The trustees rejected the first cemetery site along Salt Creek to the west of Lincoln due to flooding concerns and instead purchased 80 acres of land east ...
Nebraska picked the memorial to be in this cemetery because it is the nation's only state cemetery, and, though located in Lincoln, Nebraska, represents the entire state. Rich, poor, famous and infamous individuals killed in all the nation's wars (including the Civil War), as well as former slaves, are buried at Wyuka.
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and graveyard in Kronborg. This list of cemeteries in Nebraska includes notable examples of currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (abandoned or removed) cemeteries, churchyards, columbaria, mausolea, and other formal burial grounds.
1. Gen. George Custer. West Point, New York The Civil War general most famous for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn can be found in the West Point Cemetery alongside many other ...
See also Category:Monuments and memorials, cenotaph, monument, catacombs, cemetery, pyramid, list of Cemeteries, list of mausoleums, list of Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized ...
Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) [2] was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. [3]
WHAT: Remembrance: Reading of the Names will honor the lives of 1,630 Black people buried in unmarked graves WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Louis Cemetery, 1167 Barret Ave.
William Amos Poynter (May 29, 1848 – April 5, 1909) was a Nebraska politician and the tenth Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901, running under a fusion ticket between the Populist Party and the Democratic Party.