Cemetery records found at Brownton City Center
There’s a collection of lives of Brownton records in a box. Rather than allow it to collect dust and fade away, the city is trying to reconcile it and preserve the records for future generations.
Records of people interred at Oak Grove Cemetery along Division Street, just off Highway 212, near the wind turbine, were located in a box found in an old band room at the city’s government center. The records date back to the late-19th century. At a special meeting June 4, 1955, the cemetery’s board of directors transferred ownership of the cemetery to the village of Brownton. The transfer included all monies and bonds intended for the perpetual care of the gravesites. The cemetery is about 400 feet by 450 feet. A portion of the land within Oak Grove Cemetery is owned by Grace Lutheran Church.
(For the complete story, see the Oct. 26 print edition of The Chronicle.)
