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Date: 29 May 2005 13:10:01 -0600

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From cemetery transcripts of the Freeborn County Genealogical Society:

Greenwood Cemetery, east city limits of Glenville, Shell Rock Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota
STOCKDALE
Thomas J. (Co H, 16 Iowa Inf. - Civil War) d. 24 Nov 1866 Lot 239
Seneg [sic] 26 Mar 1807 - 7 Feb 1872 Lot 239
Elizabeth 6 Dec 1807 - 12 May 1875 Lot 239
(all moved from Green Cemetery, 15 Sept 1932)

Nunda Township Farm Burials
Section 9, four miles north of Emmons, about 80 rods north of the present (ca1980) John Dopplehammer residence - there are several burials listed including:
Thomas Stockdale - brother of Mrs. George Hall - removed first to Green Cemetery - 2nd to Greenwood at Glenville.

Freeman Township
Green Cemetery is located in the SE 1/4, Section 4, Freeman Township at bthe intersection of County Road 13 and I-35 in a grove of trees on a hill.
.. The cemetery has been abandoned for several years. It is unknown if it was ever owned by any church or association and no records can be found. One marker, that of Morrison, remains.
It is known this site was an Indian burial grounds before Minnesota became a state. There was an Indian agent here in 1840. The Indians were still using the site as late as 1865.
In the 1970s when Interstate 35 was built, they skirted the area in the event there was still graves there. Through research we have found there is three or five, maybe more, burials still there.
Thomas Stockdale and Willard Parshall were two Civil War veterans who drowned in the mill pond (now there anymore) near the village of Twin Lakes. They were first buried on the Stockdale farm and moved to Green Cemetery in 1867.
Thomas had just retuirned from the war in the fall of 1866 and on Nov. 24 had started out for town for supplies for the family when he broke through the ice on the pond. Willard Parshall slid out on the ice on a board in an effort to save Thomas when he too drowned. The story of the double tragedy still lives on today. Mrs. William Edwards wrote a "Hero" song to the turn of "Queen Charlotte" which the young sang for years afterward.

The same listing for the Stockdale burials listed in Greenwood Cemetery is in the Green Cemetery transcript.

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