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This page last modified: Wednesday, September 14, 1999
The North Platte City Cemetery, located at 800 Rodeo Road, was established at a meetings held on December 13, 1872 and June 13, 1873. At that time the North Platte Cemetery Association was organized, and five acres of land were purchased. In 1884, the Association bought an additional ten acres of land from Mrs. William F. Cody, wife of Buffalo Bill. The current cemetery consists of 30 acres, with an additional 15 acres that are undeveloped.
Prominent people buried in the cemetery are:
Archibald Adamson - author
Dr. Frederick Dick - Confederate soldier, doctor
Major A.M. Dill - First Union Pacific Pensioner
John A. Foster - served in the British
and US Army, musician.
Victor H. Halligan - attorney, Nebraska Cornhusker football star.
Washington Hinman - farmer, early county government leader
J.F.E. Kramph - Civil War soldier,
businessman
Annie Kramph - civic leader
Morrel Case Keith - cattle rancher
Dr. Voorhees Lucas - early doctor
in North Platte
Dr. Fyfield H. Longley - physician and surgeon
William R. Maloney - businessman
Charles McDonald - rancher, early county government leader
Edward Morin - Early pioneer
Keith Neville - attorney, Governor of Nebraska
Thomas C. Patterson - businessman
Josiah B. Park - Civil War soldier,
newspaper publisher
William S. Penniston - early settler
in Lincoln County
Anthony Ries - first Mayor of North Platte, county government leader
Robert E. Rowland - early settler in
Lincoln County
Leicester Walker - Civil War soldier, rancher