Graveyard Tales

There are over 1,600 people interred in our graveyard*: men, women, and children buried here from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Some of these people achieved a level of local, national, or even international notoriety during their lifetimes; some are ancestors of families still active in our community. A few are memorialized by the names of local streets, schools, or neighborhoods.

Sadly, others are virtually anonymous, their gravestones broken and worn beyond recognition. S...