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Hillcrest Cemetery

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CEMETERY

Hillcrest Cemetery

Florence, KS | Marion County

An inscribed gray granite monument in the northwest corner is the only recognition of the 300 Russian Mennonites buried here who died during the winter of 1874-75 from a smallpox epidemic. A space was carved in that stone to hold the one gravestone found for one of those 300β€”young Lelah Kirgan. Another "of interest" story here is that of Bertha 'Teeny" Williams, who, after the cemetery records were lost in a fire, researched and re-recorded every burial plot. Read her fascinating research findings posted in the cemetery gazebo.

Cemetery    History    People    Russian
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