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Cemetery |
Township |
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If the Museum’s records, such as obituaries or memorial card, show a cemetery other than the ones listed above, the word "other" is placed in the cemetery field of the record. |
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| Unknown and/or Unidentified |
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Interment is unknown |
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| Blooming Grove Cemetery |
Blooming Grove |
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| Bristol Methodist Cemetery |
Bristol |
Located on east side of County Hwy N about two miles north of City of Sun Prairie. It was started in March of 1865 by the West Bristol Cemetery Association, whose first president was David Wilder -- the man responsible for the naming of Bristol Township, and was used by the Bristol Methodist Church, which was built about 1866. In 1907 the church was sold and became Bristol Lutheran Church. Since 1950, the Town of Bristol maintains this cemetery. Some references call this cemetery English Methodist Cemetery. A land abstract indicates that another cemetery was located in Section 20, just up the road from this cemetery. The cemetery in Section 20 was abandoned very early and one of the burials was reburied in Bristol Methodist Cemetery. |
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| Bristol Lutheran Cemetery |
Bristol |
Located at 6835 County Hwy N just south of Happy Valley Road and adjacent to the Bristol Lutheran Church. About two miles north of the City of Sun Prairie and State Hwy 151. Church was purchased from Methodists in 1907 for $1200 and in 1912 additional land was purchased for cemetery use. Church was originally named First Lutheran Church of Bristol and name changed to Bristol Lutheran Church in 1949. |
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| Baker Cemetery |
Bristol |
Located on south side of County Hwy. V between East Bristol and North Bristol approximately a quarter mile east of North Bristol. A small cemetery with only twenty-six burials, eleven of them with the Baker surname. The earliest death by the Museum’s records was Roana Baker, which was Ephraim Baker’s first wife who died February 2, 1832 in Hawley, Mass. Ephraim Baker, who was born in Franklin Co., Mass., came to Wisconsin in 1844. He was a land speculator in the Town of Bristol purchasing 1,280 acres from the U.S. government including 160 acres in Section 9 where the cemetery is and operated the fist store in the Town of Bristol. Washburn Baker, a son of Ephraim, served in the 7th Infantry, Company B during the Civil War and is buried in Baker Cemetery. Ephraim was a member of the M.E. Church, which had a church and cemetery only a few miles away, but that cemetery was not started until 1865. |
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| St. Joseph's Cemetery/E. Bristol |
Bristol |
Located adjacent to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at 1935 County Hwy V. First burial was in 1846. At first only wooden crosses were used but later tombstones were carved from limestone that was readily available in quarries near East Bristol. One area was set aside for babies that had not been baptized. |
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| Sweet Cemetery {Quarry Cemetery} |
Bristol |
Located on County Hwy VV near the intersection of Stone Quarry Road and County Hwy VV. Also known as Quarry Cemetery. One 1912 death certificate calls it "Cobb Cemetery." The Cobb family was early settlers in the area of the cemetery. It is maintained by Town of Bristol. David Bresee, who settled in the Town of Bristol in 1840, is buried in this cemetery. |
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| Burke Station |
Burke |
Located at 3499 Burke Road southwest of City of Sun Prairie. Burial plots were on back part of land that also held a school building near the road |
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| Burke Lutheran Cemetery |
Burke |
Located adjacent to Burke Lutheran Church at 5720 Portage Road about a quarter mile south of Hoepker Road. The church was first started in 1851 but the first building dates to 1871 on land bought in 1869. Records show that in 1902 “Price of grave lot was $1.25 to members who could afford to pay and no one was denied a Christian burying place if one could not afford to pay the price of the plot.” |
