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From: "Sally Pavia" <>
Subject: [GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES] Index of Hubbard County, Minnesota's Oldest,Largest Cemetery is Now Complete
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:33:00 -0700
Indexing of Park Rapids Greenwood Cemeterys headstones from 1892 to the
present is now complete and the information accessible on a Web site.
Greenwood Cemetery is the culmination of a countywide cataloging project
that began in 1990, Marion Town spearheading the initiative. (Lakeport
Cemeterys index is complete, but is yet to be added to the site.)
Genealogist Darryl Hensel began work on the Greenwood project in 2000 and
last year, Beth Waller and Rod Nordberg volunteered time for its completion.
The Greenwood Cemeterys list includes nearly 4,800 deceased, most marked
with headstones but a few just have death certificates, Hensel said of the
20-acre cemetery.
Put it this way, he said. There are more people dead than alive in Park
Rapids.
Hensel has indexed about two-thirds of the 27 cemeteries in Hubbard County.
You can read more in an article written by Jean Ruzicka in the Park Rapids
Enterprise at:
www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/event/article/id/18114/group/home/
Sally Rolls Pavia
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