The cemetery name is adopted from a nearby stream along which
Native Americans once
camped. George F. Lee donated the original land in 1866, with
the first burial on September
10. Twenty-eight graves from family plots were reinterred here
in 1868.
The cemetery expanded in 1884, 1912, and 1990. The chapel,
constructed in 1916-17,
commemorates the cemetery's fiftieth anniversary. One notable
grave is that of Barbara
Kagey Mayhew Bradway, associated with the Underground Railroad
in southeastern
Nebraska before the Civil War.
In Memory of Anna Marie and Timothy D. Crook, Jr.
Nebraska State Historical Society, 2012
Northeast corner County Rd P & County Rd 70, Nebraska City
vicinity
Otoe County
Marker 494