A Cemetery plat book which was purchased about 40 years ago [circa 1900] by the St. Ansgar City Council for the purpose of compiling a graphic record of each and every burial in the City Cemetery was completed this week and submitted to the City Council for acceptance by City Clerk Tom Hume, after 2 years of work in completing details of the record. The book shows the exact location of each and every grave.
The property on the east limits of St. Ansgar was set aside as a city Cemetery in 1863. A parcel of land for that purpose was given to the City by A. G. Owen who was the first person buried there that same year. Additional land was later purchased by the city and the cemetery now [1940] consists of four acres of land and contains the graves of about 500 persons buried there.
In 1902 the city erected a fence around the cemetery and last fall [1939] water was piped there.
A Lot in the cemetery was purchased by the Modern Woodman of America #2449.
Buried there were:
(Appeared in St. Ansgar Enterprise Newspaper Jan. 1940 )