A Seward County
volunteer has indexed five Milford area cemeteries. If you find your ancestor's
name in the index, send an email to Lila
Niemann, (LNiemannG@navix.net) with the subject of the message: "Milford
Cemetery Lookups". Include the name of the cemetery and the starting page
number from the descriptions below.
The 5 cemeteries that are included in this index are:
East Fairview: Located at the corner of 280th and Old Cheney Road in Seward County. Most,
but not all burials are Mennonites. Reading was done in 1993, and covers pages 300 to 387.
Milford Cemetery: Located about a mile west of Milford on U.S. Highway 6.
Most, if not all of the burials are Mennonites. Reading was done in 1993 and updated 23 Sept 1995.
Covers pages 389 to 394.
Blue Mound Cemetery: Located less than a mile south of Milford on 238th (State Street in Milford becomes 238th as it leaves the city limits). This is a public cemetery, its records held by the Milford City Clerk. Many of the men who died at the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Milford are buried there, with military stones marking their graves. There is a single monument in memory of infants who died at the Nebraska Industrial Home, a home for unwed mothers near Milford, but no names are engraved on the stone. Updating of the volunteer's records was done in April and May 1991, and covers pages 395 to 461. Blue Mound Cemetery had nothing to do with the home for unwed mothers, the Nebraska Industrial Home at Milford, except for that one monument on which no names are engraved.
Camden Cemetery: Located on the north side of Camden Road (south of Yankee Hill Road),
between 196th and 203rd. There was once a village called Camden nearby. Reading was
done in April 1998, and covers pages 462 to 476.
Evangelical Church Cemetery: (Abandoned) Located just south of West O Street Road
on 210th Street, east side, in P Precinct. Whether this cemetery belonged to the denomination
that became Evangelical Lutheran, Evangelical and Reformed, or Evangelical United Brethren
is not known at this time. There appear to be many unmarked graves in the cemetery.
The cemetery was read in December 1998. Covers pages 477 to 479.
Notes about the Cemetery Records:
Many old stones in Seward County have engravings in German. The lookup volunteer may be able to help with
relationships, names of months, etc. Some stones in Camden cemetery are engraved in Czech. The lookup volunteer
may be able to intrepret the names of the months and the words for "born" and "died.".
When looking through the index for names, be sure to check every possible spelling of surnames.
For examples: (1) Iantzi, Jantzi, Jantzie, Jantze, Yantzi, Yantzie; (2) Jausi, Yausi; (3) Birky, Burky, Burkey; etc.
The indexing program lists ALL upper case letters before LOWER case letters. Therefore, sometimes, the words
"baby", "infant", etc. are at the end of the surname listing, after those people whose capitalized
names appear.
Note that everyone whose name appears in the index is not buried in one of these cemeteries. The index includes all
names on gravestones, so when a child is buried and the parents are named on the stone, they are indexed. If the parents
have listed their children on their stones, the childrens' names appear in the index, but daughters' married names
never seem to be listed.
