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Silver Creek Cemetery

Memorials	:	468
Location	:	Masonville, Delaware County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.3695000, -91.5790000
Description	:	Excerpt from the Silver Creek Story published 1952 by Blanche Swindell In the 1850’s when everyone was young and healthy, there was no thought about a cemetery. In 1859 the Bruce family lost a baby. Because there was no cemetery, the child was buried on the family farm. Shortly after the baby’s death a cemetery was secured and properly laid out. The land for the first cemetery was given by Anthony Swindle from his farm. Then James Robinson added to the cemetery on the south side, from his home farm. Later on Alex Robinson, James’s son who inherited his father’s home place, gave another addition to the south part... Read More	Excerpt from the Silver Creek Story published 1952 by Blanche Swindell In the 1850’s when everyone was young and healthy, there was no thought about a cemetery. In 1859 the Bruce family lost a baby. Because there was no cemetery, the child was buried on the family farm. Shortly after the baby’s death a cemetery was secured and properly laid out. The land for the first cemetery was given by Anthony Swindle from his farm. Then James Robinson added to the cemetery on the south side, from his home farm. Later on Alex Robinson, James’s son who inherited his father’s home place, gave another addition to the south part of the cemetery. The very first grave made in the “burying ground” was that of Mrs. Bruce, mother of the infant whose small body was buried on the family farm. Later Baby Bruce’s remains were moved to the regular cemetery. All the first caskets were made by John Lendrum. The diptheria epidemic of 1865 caused seventeen deaths in the community. The Silver Creek Cemetery Association is an organization which handles all matters pertaining to the cemetery. There is never any faltering on the part of this association. The fine administration of its business; the excellence of its work in the care of our cemetery; the vision behind its whole plan — all these attest the wisdom of the government of this Association. Excerpt from Silver Creek Church Quasquicentennial 1867-1992 Edited by Donna (Robinson) Wolmutt and Marilyn (Robinson) Meline Fellowship and service and honoring the dead . . . The beautiful grounds surrounding the Silver Creek church are filled with life - the lives of the pioneer settlers and their descendants. They live on in the memories of all who walk through the peaceful graveyard. The words written in the Silver Creek Story 1952, tell the history of the cemetery most eloquently: "...but we love our old grave stones. There is the one that has at its top a little sliding marble door behind which was once a clear photograph of the woman whose loved ones sought thus to keep her human presence with them a little longer. Now the strong face of that pioneer woman is only a blur - if you push back the marble door to look. The slabs showing the clasped hands, the marble sheaf, the broken tree, the recumbent lamb above a baby's couch - all these we cherish. " Excerpt from Centennial Anniversary Book, 1967 "Historically speaking, our cemetery is a tapestry in marble and granite. On this little piece of earth are the visible tokens of our remembrances of people who lived here, a whole lifetime or a shorter span of years. . . "...Deep-lettered on these stones are the brief designations that tell of men, women and children who once lived among us. But deeply planted in the community are tokens of the experience, the strength of purpose, the accomplishments of the persons who sleep here eternally. The remembrances that live in the community are something like immortality, whereas the lines in marble and granite are subject to wind, weather, and time. The stones serve to remind us of many a thing not to be put into letters. "In Silver Creek Cemetery are graves of a little group of men and women who more than a century ago crossed the stern Atlantic to set up homes in a new world. Most of them came from the north of Ireland. Many were the great-grandparents or grandparents of us who live now. They had a vision and somehow found matching courage to bring their dreams into reality. "There are in Silver Creek Cemetery four stones that mark the graves of Civil War soldiers who survived the war and came back to their holdings in a united republic. Also there are new stones that show the burial places of soldiers of the late wars. "There are some old, old stones that call to memory the ravages of disease that took off quickly many a child or older person in the days when there were almost no doctors or other medical help. In the year 1865 a diphtheria epidemic caused seventeen deaths in this single community. Some stones mark the graves of a few who came here as strangers within our gates, but who stayed for all their time.... "All this belongs to the century that has passed. The first grave was dug here in 1865 for a Mrs. Bruce whose moldering stone stands near the west fence of the cemetery. We who today mark this centennial recognize that we are now making the history of the second century which is just dawning. The days will come and go and this, our seemingly modern way of life, will have slipped into the chronicles of long-gone times. "The land for the first cemetery was given in the early 1860s by Anthony Swindle from his farm. Then James Robinson added to the cemetery on the south side, from his home farm. Later on, Alex Robinson, James's son, gave another addition to the south part of the cemetery. In 1958, the Cemetery Association used bequests to the cemetery fund to acquire another acre of that same farm from its present owners, James and Phyllis Schulte. Every Memorial Day descendants from far and near come to decorate the graves with flowers. Those who can't come personally send plants to place upon the neatly manicured graves. In its annual Memorial Day salute to veterans, the American Legion Post of Ryan participants make the Silver Creek Cemetery the final stop of the day for coffee and home-baked "goodies" with appreciative members of the community.

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