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Nicollet County
Cemeteries and Obituaries

Cemeteries

Cemetery Junction, Minnesota
    http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/CJ-MN-NDX.html

Political Graveyard, Minnesota
    http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/NI.html#CEM

Cemetery Transcriptions from the USGenweb Archives, Nicollet County, MN
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mn/nicollet/nicollet.html

The Tombstone Transcription Project
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/minnesota/nicollet.htm

Interment.Net
   http://www.interment.net/us/mn/nicollet.htm

Nicollet County Historical Society
   http://www.nchsmn.org/Research.html
NCHS has cemetery records from all of the cemeteries in Nicollet County, except Resurrection Cemetery in St. Peter. These records begin with the earliest records and continue into the early 1980s. Obituaries contained in the "Surname Files" can be used to supplement the information found in the cemetery record listings.

Obituaries

The New Ulm Journal

    Obituaries
    http://www.nujournal.com/obit/sections.asp?section=Obituaries

The Mankato Free Press

    Obituaries
    http://www.mankato-freepress.com (Obituaries, Archives)

Nicollet County MN Mailing List (RootsWeb)
   http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.minnesota.counties.nicollet

Obituaries from the USGenWeb Archives, Nicollet County, MN
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mn/nicollet/nicollet.html
 
 

Family History Library

Minnesota, Nicollet - Cemeteries
Cemetery file for Calvary, Hebron, Evang. Lutheran, Ft. Ridgely, First Meth., Kerns, St. Hosp., Zions Evang. Nicollet County Historical Society (St. Peter, Minnesota) (FHL US/CAN Film 1753227 Item 7)

Cemetery file for clippings (general) Nicollet County Historical Society (St. Peter, Minnesota) (FHL US/CAN Film 1753227 Item 9)

Cemetery file for Sauer, Episcopal Church, Woodlawn, Dodd Road, Green Lawn Nicollet County Historical Society (St. Peter, Minnesota) (FHL US/CAN Film 1753227 Item 8)

Cemetery records file Nicollet County Historical Society (St. Peter, Minnesota) (FHL US/CAN Film 1753227 Item 10)

File for Green Lawn Cemetery, also called Traverse Cemetery Nicollet County Historical Society (St. Peter, Minnesota) (FHL US/CAN Film 1753227 Item 11)

Greenhill cemetery, St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota: including some small cemeteries and private burial grounds in Nicollet County (>FHL US/CAN Film 08831 Item 5)

Nicollet County Cemeteries Zins, Mary Ann (FHL US/CAN Film 1753584 Item 18)

Veterans buried in St. Peter and vicinity Peterson, Rosa C. (FHL US/CAN Film 1750364 Item 4)

Fore more information on these films see the Family History Library Catalog
 
 
 

Nicollet County Cemeteries

Belgrade Township

• St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, 1863
• Kerns (Kerns Congreagational Church), 1853
• Swedish Lutheran Cemetery (Lutheran Evangelical), abt. 1874

Bernadotte Township

• Beranadotte Lutheran Cemetery, 1866

Brighton Township

• Swan Lake Cemetery (Lutheran), abt. 1869
• Brighton Zion Lutheran Cemetery, 1906
• St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, 1858
• Lakeside Cemetery (Methodist), 1854

Courtland Township

• Courtland Evangelical Cemetery (German), 1870
• Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, 1867
• Courtland Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, abt. 1925
• St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, 1850s

Granby Township

• Green Lawn Cemetery/Friedens, 1896
• Poor Farm Cemetery (non-denomination), abt. 1870

Lafayette Township

• Salem Methodist Cemetery (German Methodist/Episcopal), 1858
• St. Gregory the Great (Catholic), 1944
• First Lutheran Cemetery, 1923

Lake Prairie Township

• Norseland Methodist Cemetery, 1847/1854
• Sauer Cemetery, 1851
• Scandian Grove Lutheran Cemetery (Swedish Evangelical Lutheran), 1858
• Norwegian Lutheran Church Cemetery, 1858
• Norseland Lutheran Cemetery, abt. 1874

New Sweden Township

• Greenwood Cemetery (Swedish Methodist/Lutheran), 1879

Nicollet Township

• St. Paul's Catholic Cemetery, 1907
• German or Zion Evangelical Cemetery (Methodist), 1878
• Williams Cemetery, abt. 1862 (27 graves)
• Hebron Cemetery, circa 1861
• Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, 1869

Oshawa Township

• Resurrection Cemetery (Evagelical Lutheran), 1857 (some burials from St. Peter State Hospital)
• St. Peter State Hospital, early 1900s(?)

Ridgely Township

• Fort Ridgely State Cemetery (non-demoninational), 1855
• German-Lutheran Cemetery (St. John's Lutheran Church), 1869-1967

Traverse Township

• Middle Lake Cemetery/St. Nicholas Cemetery (Catholic), 1872
• Episcopal Church Cemetery, 1862
• Greenlawn Cemetery/Traverse des Sioux Cemetery (non-denominational), abt. 1854
• Cavalary (?) Cemetery (Catholic), 1856
• Greenhill/Klein's (non-denominational), abt. 1857

West Newton Township

• St. George's Catholic Cemetery, 1858
• German Methodist Cemetery, abt. 1858

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Last updated 22 March 2006