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Wild Rose Cemetery

Memorials	:	23
Location	:	Georgetown, Clay County, USA
Coordinate	:	47.0793580, -96.8045710
Description	:	Wild Rose Cemetery was established in 1888 when John Stein (son of Adam and Minnie (Schulz) Stein) and a hired hand Paul "Pete" Persson were killed by lightning while putting up hay. Adam and Minnie Stein then donated one acre of their land in the SW¼ of the SE¼ of Section 30 of Georgetown Township to be used as a cemetery and those two men were the first burials in the cemetery. The parcel is inside the present city limits of Georgetown and it was first known as "Georgetown Village Cemetery." Currently, the parcel size of the... Read More	Wild Rose Cemetery was established in 1888 when John Stein (son of Adam and Minnie (Schulz) Stein) and a hired hand Paul "Pete" Persson were killed by lightning while putting up hay. Adam and Minnie Stein then donated one acre of their land in the SW¼ of the SE¼ of Section 30 of Georgetown Township to be used as a cemetery and those two men were the first burials in the cemetery. The parcel is inside the present city limits of Georgetown and it was first known as "Georgetown Village Cemetery." Currently, the parcel size of the cemetery is two acres. It is nestled along the west side of the Buffalo River. Besides having the notoriety of donating the land for the cemetery, Adam Stein is also the only veteran of the Civil War buried in the cemetery and was an early settler of the Georgetown Community. As Georgetown is the oldest community in the Red River Valley and was established in 1859, it is unknown where community members were buried for the 29 years prior to the cemetery's establishment in 1888. When the cemetery was established, one half of the parcel was given to St. John's Catholic Church of Georgetown and the other half to the protestant churches of the community, which eventually included Christ Lutheran Church in Georgetown. A complete record of burials has been kept with the St. John's Church records. The protestants organized a cemetery association in 1929 to record burials in the cemetery. The charter members of the association were William Stein (son of Adam Stein), Charles Walters, Alice (Hartman) Eastwood, Reinhard Bernsdorf, Wendel Tehven, and Miss Virginia Stewart (granddaughter of Adam Stein). They recorded all previous burials and kept up the burial records thereafter. All of these charter members with the exceptions of Miss Stewart and Mrs. Eastwood appear to be buried in the cemetery. In 1951, the cemetery was landscaped and all grave markers put in order. The project was a community affair so all members of the churches were involved. To this day there are at least 23 unmarked graves in the cemetery. At some point, many evergreens were planted on the north and west sides of the cemetery, probably around the 1951 landscaping renovation. Virginia Stewart gave the cemetery its current name, "Wild Rose Cemetery," because of the many wild roses growing there and it has been known formally by this name ever since. A cemetery gate complete with roses and the cemetery's name was erected in memory of Magdalen Lee after her death in 1997. In 2001, the cemetery was indexed by Florene Culp, who was Georgetown City Clerk at the time. Others who have contributed to preserving its records, history, and heritage have included Julie Scoville, Susan Ohnstad, Marjorie Kukowski, and Kathy (Kukowski) Richards. In 2009, the great flood which came that spring left much debris in the cemetery, and it created ice dams that overturned many grave markers in the cemetery. Local community service men came and completed most of the cleanup efforts, and reset most of the grave markers, after which a small dike was built around the cemetery property to ensure such a travesty would never occur again. In 2019, another landscaping project took place with trees, benches, and other fixtures donated by the Richards and Lee families. The area around the large cross in the middle of the cemetery was re-landscaped during this project. Included in this project was the planting of some wild roses, the cemetery's namesake. At some point, the cemetery association disbanded, and at present, John David Lee is treasurer of the cemetery fund, Jerry Hermann is the actuary (map and records keeper), and both men are sextons and maintainers of the cemetery. The mowing is hired out.

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Latitude: 47.0793580
Longitude: -96.8045710

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