The following stories are taken from the History of Boundary County, Idaho published by the Boundary County Historical Society in 1987.

Charlie Wagner wrote to the Forest Service to get permission to have a cemetery up there at Round Prarie. The Forest Service wrote back and said that they had to guarantee eight deaths a year, had to bury eight people a year or they couldn't have it. There is a grave up there where it used to be the Round Prarie Hall, alongside the road. They buried a foreigner; old Wagner (Charlie Wagner) hauled him there in his wagon. That's how come he wrote to the Forest Service for a graveyard. Charled was married to my aunt, father's sister. That was her third man, or fourth man. They all died. Divorce was a disgrace those days.

Wagner buried the black man in the ditch alongside the road. Now they call that a statue instead of a grave. It's on the Forest Service map now. He buried a couple of people down by Moyie Springs on the Fox place. The man buried by the Round Praire Hall was a tie hack; he worked around the railroad.
By Charlie Wagner as told to Keith Leslie

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