This population resulted in the development of the largest cemetery in Turner county, Parker Rosehill Cemetery.  There is also a Catholic cemetery, St Christina's Cemetery, and the two of them have served a relatively large area within and surrounding Parker. Parker Rosehill was in use by 1866 and is just to the northwest of Parker in a close but nice rural location.  There are now roughly 3850 burials in Rosehill Cemetery. St Christina's was established in 1892 and now has about 600 burials, and is an attractive cemetery on the southwest edge of Parker.

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There are three major parts to the information on this web page as prepared by Ken Tiahrt ([email protected]) with the generous assistance of the
cemetery sexton and the photographer, Christin Bartels.  Any portion of this page may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for
their private use.  Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires
written approval. 

1.  A Cemetery Map

The map of the cemetery showing the individual lots in relationship to the adjacent Turner County Roadway, 453rd Avenue, gives a physical setting.  

2.  A List of Burials

A listing of the burials at Parker Rosehill Cemetery – Section 8 – Parker Township – Turner County, gives the individual names in alphabetic order. 
This listing also gives the year of birth and year of death when available.  Any person who knows of a buial and it location in Rosehill that is not listed is
requested to send this information to Ken Tiahrt.  Because of monument age and the damp climate some photos are hard to view, if anyone has a better
photo or one we have missed identifying please send the photo and its identification to Ken Tiahrt.

 3.  Photos of Grave Monuments

A special thank you is given to Christin Bartels for the excellent photos she has taken in numerous large Turner County cemeteries for these cemetery
projects.  Each individual record is marked with the section and lot number but this information should not be considered to be completely reliable. 

Many of these monuments are well over 80 years old and show severe weather and environmental impacts.  This cemetery is very well maintained but is located in a damp area not far from the Vermillion River which leads to discoloration of the stones.  We have used the best possible photos but in some
cases it mey be necessary to physically visit the cemetery to get a clear image of the monument and to fully read the inscriptions.

The photo numbers are only for electronic matching.  Use your browser return icon to exit from a photo and go back to this page.

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Parker Rosehill Cemetery is a relatively large cemetery with four fairly equally sized quarters as shown in the display below.  Each
of the burial records given in the list below includes a section designation and a lot number.   It is advised that after finding the burial
entry of interest the user should return to this section and click on the section given in the burial record.  This will bring up a map for
that quadrant which shows the genral location of a particular lot.  Note that each lot contains a number of burial plots.  If planning to
visit the cemetery it might be wise to print the particular quadrant map.

After viewing a particular quadrant map the user can return to this page using their browser return icon.

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