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Cameron Cemetery/Church (Cameron Township)
Location: Cairo Nebraska
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Ezekiel
O.Palmer donated the land on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 20, 1878 with “ 48
lots, each 16’x24’ with 4’ alley between rows “– records show “The
Graveyard was run off into lots by the trustees and people congregated
for this purpose.”
Lot #1 on the original map was for “Mr. Boley’s child” who had been exhumed and reburied in the Cameron Cemetery... a later map shows the addition of six lots moving the “Boley’s child” to lot #2 and Edwin S. Lee to lot #1. A Civil War veteran, W.G. Neith, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry and GAR member was the first burial in the Wysong family plot. His stone marker has no date. Old timers told of two or three buried in unmarked graves in an area (north of the shed and along the fence) once called “Potters Field.“
Lot #1 on the original map was for “Mr. Boley’s child” who had been exhumed and reburied in the Cameron Cemetery... a later map shows the addition of six lots moving the “Boley’s child” to lot #2 and Edwin S. Lee to lot #1. A Civil War veteran, W.G. Neith, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry and GAR member was the first burial in the Wysong family plot. His stone marker has no date. Old timers told of two or three buried in unmarked graves in an area (north of the shed and along the fence) once called “Potters Field.“
E.O. Palmer deeded an additional 27 lots to the Cameron Cemetery Association in 1883 for $25.00. He also gave land in 1887 to the 1st Christian Church as a building site. Fred and Sophie Shultz sold land equivalent to 91 lots for $200.00 to the Cameron Cemetery Association. Two additional acres were bought from John A. Ewing for $3000.00 in 1926 creating the current cemetery.
Source Jo Riedy, Cairo historian, Grand Island Independent
Located 7 miles south of Cairo on highway #11 and 2 ½ miles west on Airport Road. Just west of the Cameron Church.
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