Rising Sun Cemetery

updated October 26, 2007

Cemetery location "From SE corner of Rising City, Nebraska, 2 miles south to the NW corner of Section 26, Reading Township"

Historical note: On, 15 February 1876 at School District #43, Eli Armagost, J. C. Armagost, E.R. Lawver, Geo. Zahler, H. Reinheimer, W.C. McElravy, A.S. Wright, A. Duval, M.V. Hill, met and formed a Cemetery Association to be known as Rising Sun Cemetery Association.

 

Partial Tombstone List

RISING SUN CEMETERY
OLDEST STONE 1873
Land donated from the homestead of the LAWVER Family
Not in order, just readings of family members - by Nancy Hartman, 1984.

DOTY
Gillis, 29 March 1822- 1 April 1904
Wife, Amanda J., 17 July 1836-26 Jan. 1905 (Amanda Jane Armagost)
Minnie B., 16 Dec. 1873- 15 Aug. 1875

DOTY
Charles P., 28 Aug. 1853- 23 Nov. 1934
Wife, Della 19 Sept. 1867- 24 Aug. 1911
Daughter, Hattie M. 20 Dec. 1884- 30 Jan. 1901

DOTY
Hallie R., 27 Jan. 1894-18 Dec. 1960
Ray G., 7 Oct. 1892-21 Dec. 1967
Infant no date, Gass Haney Marker.

DOTY
Edgar A., 15 Oct. 1870- 18 May 1931 (Edgar Armagost Doty)
Wife, Hester Jane, 15 May 1873-30 May 1960 (Jennings)

GRAVEL
Hector, 1892-1935 (Killed while using dynamite on tree stumps)
Grace V. 1889- (Lawver) (born 16 Feb. 1889 died 10 March 1971)

HAAG
Jacob F., 8 January 1949 - 18 April 1935(died in Palmer, Ne.,
Married Elizabeth Straub she is buried beside him. This information from his obituary)

LAWVER
Henry E., 1836-1913
Wife, Helen, 1838-1882, (Helena Price)
Bertha, 1878-1883

LAWVER
Charles R., CO. G. 49 Pa. Inf.
Elizabeth, 1851-1935 (Lapp)

LAWVER
Samuel, 1867-1948
Mary Ann, 1870-1911, (Butterfield)
Earl, 1905-1964
Alberta, 1901-1970

LAWVER
Charles E.1877-7 Jan. 1963, (born 11 Jan. 1878, Obit. date)
Della M., 1874- 1957 (Della Mae Smith)
Infant d.1902

PRICE
Jeremiah, 1845- 1919, (wife was Caroline B. Armagost, 1848-1906)

WAY
Jacob, 1845-1928
Wife, Mary, 1851-1881 (Adkins)
Samuel G., 1881-1881
Earl L., 1885- 1893
Emma J., 1866-1925 (Price)

WAY
Ray S., 1889- 15 Jun., 1965
Mary E. 1892- 11 Dec. 1981, (Yordy)

Way
Emerson V. 1918-1968 (s/o, Ira Vern Way and Mabel E. Yordy)

Way
Patricia Ann 1958- 8 Jan. 1959 (d/o Elmer & Dorene Goosman Way)

YORDY
John C., 1859-1909
Wife, Mary E., 1869-1956 (Lawver)

ZAHLER
George, 1844-1919
Mary J., 1845-1915 (Mary Jane Lapp, died 15 Feb. 1915)
George and Mary settled in Reading Twp. Sec. 24, had 11 children, 8 living.

Rising Sun Cemetery Association
This page is not a publication of the Rising Sun Cemetery Association and in no way purports to speak for the Association.

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Transcribed by Nancy Hartman
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