Peninsula Genealogical Society - Door Co. WI
Town of WASHINGTON
* ROCK ISLAND CEMETERY #1*
INDEX-1970's
updated 2 Oct 2009
* YOU WILL FIND THE LOCATION OF ROCK ISLAND CEMETERY #1 ON THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON MAPS PAGE! *
LOCATION: Near the lighthouse on the North side of Rock Island. It is surrounded by a white fence that contains 12 graves. They are marked only by field stones. The following index with information is created from the Conan EATON's book, "Rock Island".
*Source: This information passed on to John KAHLERT by the caretaker-1970's.
Copied by Sally TREICHEL in the 1970's for the Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society. Revamped for the PGS Website by Sue HOHNEKE 2 Oct 2009.
CORBIN, David/Died 1852.
NEWMAN CURTIS Family Plot.
NEWMAN CURTIS, _?_/Son/Died in Spring of 1853.
NEWMAN CURTIS, _?_/Father/Parents and a daughter named Jerusha drowned in the fall of 1853, bodies recovered and buried.
NEWMAN CURTIS, _?_/Mother/Parents and a daughter named Jerusha drowned in the fall of 1853, bodies recovered and buried.
NEWMAN CURTIS, Jerusha/Daughter/Parents and a daughter named Jerusha drowned in the fall of 1853, bodies recovered and buried.
UNKNOWNS
_?_, _?_/#1 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/#2 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/#3 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/#4 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/#5 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/#6 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
_?_, _?_/*7 of Seven (7) graves of anonymous people who washed up on the shore after a shipwreck.*
Also, typed by Sally TREICHEL in the 1970's
-Microfilmed in 35mm as part of the Door County Cemeteries/Tombstone Inscriptions in 1988 by Sue Hohneke for the Genealogical Society of Utah. FHL US/CAN Film #1421896 Item 10 -available to interloan at your nearest Family History Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or to view at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Index as part of the Door County Cemeteries/Tombstone Inscriptions at the Laurie Room of the Door County Public Library in Sturgeon Bay, WI.