CHAPTER XXXII FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (CONT'D)

CEMETERY.

What is known as the Jameson cemetery, is located on section 7, and was laid out in 1860, W. W. Jameson donating the land. The first interment here was on the 20th of May, 1855, and was the mortal remains of Evaline Jameson, the daughter of Robert Jameson, who had died the previous day. The second was a child of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Morris, about the first of July, 1855. The third was the body of a Mr. Whitford, an emigrant from Indiana to Nebraska, who died July 17, 1856, while passing through the county, and was buried here July 18, 1856. He is buried in the Jameson cemetery. The fourth was that of Adelaide McGeehon, daughter of R. D. and Mary J. McGeehon, who died aged seventeen months, was buried November 12, 1857. It may be noted that there was two inches of snow on the ground that day. Judd Cemetery is located upon sections 18 and 19. This was never regularly laid out, but was used for burial purposes in an early day, simply for the want of a suitable spot dedicated to the uses this was put to. The first burial was that of an infant child of William and Malinda Judd, in the spring of 1855. The babe was never named, as he died when but a small child. There were only a few graves here, as the burying of bodies here was abandoned, on the opening of the Jameson cemetery.

FIRST ITEMS.

The first birth was that of a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Eller, born during the summer of 1854. The first death was that of Evaline Jameson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jameson, who died on the 19th of May, 1855, and was buried in what is now the cemetery, although it was not laid out until later. The first ground in the township was broken by Jesse Eller, in 1855, and the first wheat was raised by him the same year. The first blacksmith in the township was Frank Nordman, who erected a forge during the autumn of 1856, on his farm on section 17.

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Transcribed by Deb Lightcap-Wagner, February, 2014 from:"History of Cass County, Together with Sketches of Its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Reporesentative Citizens", published in 1884, Springfield, Ill: Continental Historical Co., pp. 801-802.