Horton Cemetery, Fairmont, Fillmore County, Nebraska

The following data is extracted from Cemetery Collection.

Horton Cemetery is located on the northeast corner of the south-east quarter of section two, township eight, range two, seven and onehalf miles northeast of Fairmont. The plot was donated by Jonathan Horton. There is a total of sixty-one graves. Cemetery is fenced.

The thirty-seven marked graves are:

ATTKINSON, FRANK, d. Mch. 27, 1883, age 4 yrs., 20 days.
BAIR, MATTIE, d. Oct. 28, 1875 age 8 mos., 5 days.
BIVENS, JOHNEY, b. July 11, 1882, d. Dec. 9, 1883.
BIVENS, EARL, d. Nov. 10, 1886, age 1 yr., 2 mo., 21 days.
BIVENS, MINERVA, b. Sept. 13, 1868, d. Mch. 22, 1901.
BIVENS, MARION, d. Dec. 9, 1894, age 9 mos., 21 days.
DART, JOHN, d. Oct. 6, 1908, age 77 yrs., 10 mos., 23 days.
EMIGH, MRS. CHRIS, b. 1840, d. Sept 3, 1882.
EMIGH, JOHN, d. Mch. 19 1874, age 8 mos., 21 days.
EMIGH, NELLIE, d. Oct. 26, 1881, age 4 yrs., 11 mos., 20 days.
EMIGH, IRVIN, d. June 30, 1980 age 3 mos., 3 days.
FIGARD, AARON, d. (sic) Mch. 25, 1845 d. Apr. 17, 1920.
FRAZIER, FLORA, d. June 4, 1884, age 13 yrs., 16 mos., 11 days.
HAUCKS, MANDA, d. Mch. 15, 1886, age 33 yrs., 1 mo.
HORTON, NANCY b. Apr. 8, 1809, d. June 6, 1886.
HORTON, EZKIEL, b. June 23, 1819, d. Mch. 12, 1891.
HORTON, LIMON, b. May 21, 1873, d. Oct. 14, 1874.
HORTON, SARAH, b. Oct. 18, 1871, d. Aug. 11, 1872.
HORTON, EMANIEL, b. Aug. 11, 1877.
HORTON, EMMA, b. Feby. 9, 1881, d. Sept. 6, 1891.
HELMS, GEORGE, b. Apr. 1, 1801, d. Apr. 29, 1881.
HELMS, ELIZABETH, b. Mch. 17, 1813, d. Mch. 25, 1891.
JORDAN, BARBARA, d. Sept. 18, 1901, age 62 yrs., 2 mos., 20 days.
JORDAN, ANNIE, d. Aug. 3, 1880, age 24 yrs., 7 mos., 16 days.
JORDAN, MAUDIE, d. Sept. 11, 1880, age 1 mo., 11 days.
JORDAN, ROSE ELLEN, d. Aug. 28, 1882 age 5 mos., 2 days.
MERTENS, CHRESTOP, b. in Germany, d. Dec. 21, 1883.
MILLER, HENRY, b. in Holanbeck, Germany, Oct. 2, 1837, d. Sept. 23, 1914.
STONEROOK, AARON, b. 1842, d. 1908.
STONEROOK, CLARENCE, d. June 22, 1895, age 19 yrs., 8 mos., 5 days.
STONEROOK, FREDIE d. Aug. 25, 1886, age 2 weeks.
STOCKWELL, WILLE, b. July 11, 1900, d. July 8, 1902.
STRAYLEY, DAVID, d. Aug. 20, 1882, age 33 yrs., 6 mos., 4 days.
STRAYLEY, WILLIAM, d. July 27, 1900, age 87 yrs., 10 mos., 18 days.
SHIVELY, JOHN, d. Sept. 2, 1875, age 29 yrs., 1 mo., 11 days.
WINTERS, GEORGE, b. Dec. 20, 1869, d. Oct. 29, 1881.
WINTERS, VIVIAN, b. Sept. 13, 1874.


The twenty-two unmarked graves are:


Anderson, (children).
Bair, Jay.
Emigh, Flora
Halsie
Hayden, (infant).
Jordan, Ed.
Jordan, G. G.
Jordan, W.
Kauffman, Nellie.
Kaukman, (infant).
Kingery, Mrs. Sam.
Miller, Ed.
Phlug
Price, Baby.
Price, Bena
Price, Margaret.
Sauber
Townsend (child).
White, Jay.
Zook

- Contributed by Miss Roxy Ammerman.

Source: Cemetery Collection

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