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St Mary’s Cemetery
Location: St Mary’s Cemetery Wood River Nebraska
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The first Irish Catholic settlers of Wood River buried their own
at their homesteads, along the Platte River banks as well as Richard
Moore’s pasture. A cemetery was the immediate order of business once
they erected a small St Mary’s church. The St Mary’s Cemetery consisted
of “Block 4” on the west edge of town after a $1 transaction between
Bishop of Nebraska and the Union Pacific on June 1, 1868. In 1874,
Patrick Moore and Patrick Neville purchased additional land as trustees
of St Mary’s increasing the cemetery to 40 acres for a price tag of
$240.00 on March 20, 1878. This land purchase sold to the Bishop of
Omaha for $1.00 in 1888. Pine and Evergreen trees came from as far away
as Central City and Cedar Bluff for planting at the cemetery. Veterans
include 12 Civil War, 3 Spanish-American, 18 WWI and 10 WWII.
Source Grand Island Independent article by Sunny Welch.
Located 2 miles west of Wood River and just North of Highway 30
Source Grand Island Independent article by Sunny Welch.
Located 2 miles west of Wood River and just North of Highway 30
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