SCHERMERHORN CEMETERY


Cemetery history & transcription done by LuAnn Schrader.
Assisted by Diane Oldfather in 2003. 

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This cemetery was donated to the Methodist Church, with the deed signed 
June 13, 1874.  It gave the Methodists 2 acres of land. Philip B-and Mary 
Schermerhorn were the origional owners of the property, and the ones who
donated it.  In the 1880's the Schermerhorn farm was sold to Hosea Quimby, 
who gave the South half of the cemetery to the German Evangelical 
Lutherans-St Peter Congregation in 1891.  They built a fence to divide the
two of them.  In 1903 land was donated to the Lutheran's by Charles Ramspott 
for a new cemetery nearer to town.  This cemetery was abandoned, as the 
Methodists were no longer around either. In 1987 some of the people of
Easton restored what they could of the cemetery.  They put the remaining 
stones on a cement slab-all in a row.

This information all comes compliments of LuAnn Schrader.  She has been one 
of the people restoring and doing a lot of the work on the cemetery.  At one 
time she had crayon rubbings of the stones, and lots of information.  In the 
1990's a house fire destroyed most of this.  What is here is what she has 
gathered since that time.  This fire not only was a tragedy for the family, 
but for all history.

The cemetery is in Section 19 of Minnesota Lake Township. If you take Cty 21 S 
of Minnesota Lake to 200th ST. (the first left after the curves) Take the gravel 
road to the left and the cemetery sits in the middle of the farm fields off to 
your right about 2 miles down the road.  It is on the corner of 200th ST and 
Cty 115.  You can also follow Main Street in Easton to Ash Street (stop sign)  
Go right to the stop sign and the left on 4th (Cty 115) Follow the gravel road 
until you intersect with 200th St.  It is in the field on left side of the road.

Please take in consideration that these stones are just listed.  They are not in 
any special order, and it is not know which cemetery they actually came from.

BARNES
George			10/9/42-7/25/1876
			came to MN in 1863
			son of MC-Mary M

BELL
William			d 6/15/1866
			(20 day)
Alfred C		d 9/9/1868
			(3 mo, 10 day)
			(both sons of SN-RB)

DANIELS
Susanah (Cook)		d 2/7/1886
			(48 yr, 8 mo, 1 day)
			(wife of JW)
			daughter of Daniel-Mary A

DEMING
Roswell			d 2/8/1895
			(68 yr, 6 mo, 21 day)

HALLACK
Mary (James)		d 1/29/18873
			(24 yr, 6 mo)
			(wife of MO)
			daughter of Henry-Eliza

HUSSELY
Minnie			d 7/9/1880
			(2 mo, 11 day)	
Charles			d 7/1/1878
			(5 mo, 10 day)
			(children of Charles-Carrie)

KLENK
Althera			d 8/25/1894
			(3 mo, 3 day)
			(child of Jake-Margaret)
George			7/17/79-2/10/1884
			(son of F-M)

LUCKHARDT
Johannes		4/1828-1/1897

LUDWIG
Wilhelmine		11/1/44-11/15/1899
			(wife of C)

SAULSBURY
David			d 11/9/1873
			(62 yr)
			(son of Peter-Catherine)

SCHERMERHORN
??			d 1867
			(23 yr, 1 mo, 4 day)
			(broken stone)

SMITH
Thaddeus		d 1/14/1875
			(87 yr, 11 mo, 29 day)
			came to MN 5/8/1866
			civil war veteran
Margaret		3/4/34-3/11/1884

QUIMBY
Mary (Weiser)		d 5/19/1877
			(31 yr, 10 mo, 6 day)
			(wife of Hosea)

WALTER
J.G.			1/24/39-4/4/1896

WETTLAUFER
Adam			5/30/93-9/30/1893
			(son of George-
			 Elizabeth Luckhardt)
Anna			1/13/94-1/15/1894
			(child of Lewis-
			 Martha Luckhardt)

WING
John			7/26/59-9/29/1890
Amanda			d 2/6/1874
			(wife of Elihu)
Elmer E			d 6/3/1865
			(9 mo, 18 day)
			(son of H-BM)
Homer			d 4/19/1883
			(65 yr, 10 mo, 27 day)