Five Points Cemetery HERE THEY SLEEP

                                            

                                                         Five Points Cemetery
                                                            Akan Township, Richland County, Wisconsin  USA

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FIVE POINTS CEMETERY

Catalogued June 14, 1975 by the Five Points 4-H Club under the direction of  Mrs. Kenneth Kitsembel and Virginia  Storms. Located a short distance north of County Trunk F and west of where County Trunk X junctions with F. The cemetery is a churchyard cemetery available only to membership burials from the Five Points Lutheran Church directly east of the grounds. The first known burial was that of Ingebor Goplin in 1877 prior to the purchase of church land. This church served the community until it's destruction by fire in August of 1919. Land for the first church property was purchased from Nels Anderson in 1889. The grounds are well kept. The original dimensions were 14 x 16 rods. The new church overlooks the old site to the west.


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