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We pulled into the cemetery's gated entrance and parked along the tall
cedar trees that were the defining feature of the place. The cemetery land had
belonged to the McFall family originally. Dave’s great-great-great-grandfather
Samuel McFall had deeded it shortly after the first burial occurred in 1843. Little
two-year-old Lucinda Koontz was the first death of the new community of
Fremont, and her headstone was still plainly legible today.
Samuel stipulated that no one should ever be charged for the
cemetery space. If you lived in the town, you were given a plot. No more space
was available these days. The new cemetery across town had been used for
decades, except for my grandpa and some other original settler families who
were still allowed places beneath the tall cedars. This was the old-timers’
cemetery.
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