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From Pickrell, Gage County, Nebraska: Go east (about 6 miles) on Austin Street/East Pickrell Road to South 82nd Road. Go south (about 2 miles) on South 82nd Road to East Elm Road. Go west on East Elm Road (about .25 miles) to South 80th Road. Turn south directly in front of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. The cemetery adjoins the church on the south. Find a Grave US Gen Net
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gage County, Nebraska. The county was created in 1855 and organized in 1857. The county was named for W.D. Gage, a Methodist minister. Adjacent Counties Jefferson County Johnson County Lancaster County Marshall County, Kansas Otoe County Pawnee County Saline County
On April 22, 1887, the Association purchased from the Hugh Cross estate from John Ellis, an heir, what is now known as Evergreen Home Cemetery. The purchase price for 80 acres was $7,039. On August 20 1887, the body of John Cooke son of C.E. Cooke was the first interment in Evergreen Home Cemetery. The Association, then on April 4, 1920 bought from Leo Werner 20 acres for $8,500 to be used as E...
Founded in 1860, the Blue Springs Cemetery has the distinction of being Nebraska's Oldest Recorded Cemetery, registered on January 25, 1862. The first burial was Allen R. Johnson age 8 years and 2 months. Allen drowned in the Blue River on September 25, 1857, his re-interment in what was then known as the Blue Springs Methodist Cemetery (northeast corner of today's cemetery) was shortly after t...