BETHANY LUTHERAN       CEMETERY     LAKE SARAH TOWNSHIP

The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church was organized in 1884. In 1886, John and Bessie Hobert donated three acres of land in Section 35 of Lake Sarah Township for a church and a cemetery. The cemetery was at times refereed to as the Lake Sarah Swedish Cemetery or the Lake Sarah Township Cemetery.

The first church was not completed when it was destroyed by a tornado on September 15, 1886. The congregations built another church the following year. On April 20, 1914, lighting struck that church and it was destroyed by fire.

Four months after the fire, on August 28, 1914, the corner stone was laid for another church. In 1951, Modum Lutheran and Bethany Lutheran churches merged to form Lake Sarah Lutheran Church of Garvin. Bethany Lutheran Church was sold and torn down in 1959.

The oldest know setter in Murray County, James Drew, is buried in Bethany Lutheran Cemetery. Mr. Drew was born in 1791 and fought in the War of 1812 and died at the age of 95.

The list below is to be used as a reference and should not be your only death and burial resource in your genealogical research. For comments, corrections, or information on Bethany Lutheran Cemetery, please contact Char Larson.

ANDERSON	A. EMIL	1879	1945
ANDERSON	ALBERT	1869	1957
ANDERSON	ALFRED	1877	1917
ANDERSON	ALVIN	1900/OCT/29	1995/JULY/16
ANDERSON	BENGT	1838	1919
ANDERSON	EMIL	1862	1909
ANDERSON	EVA	1824	1907
ANDERSON	JENNIE	1872	1928
ANDERSON	JUSTINA	1849	1934
ANDERSON	OLAF	1815	1892
ANDERSON	OLIVER MAYNARD	1990/MAY/17	1986/JUL/22
ANDERSON	OSCAR W.	1903	1970
ANDERSON	VERNER	1906	1942
BENSON	JENNIE S.	1886	1964
BENSON	SWAN S.	1885	1981
BERG	AUGUST	1858/AUG/03	1925/OCT/11
BERG	CARRIE	1855/JUL/05	1938/FEB/21
BERG	EMILY	1894/MAY/12	1953/JUN/02
BERG	ROY C.	1892/APR/18	1944/NOV/17
BJORKMAN	CAROLINE	1856	1939
BJORKMAN	EDLA	1892	1986
BJORKMAN	HATTIE	1898	1982
BJORKMAN	HILDING MAURITZ	1881/SEPT/20	1882/MAR/10
BJORKMAN	IRENE (BURLET)	1894	1983
BJORKMAN	JOHAN J.	1825/NOV/12	1892/JAN/22
BJORKMAN	SWAN J.	1855	1939
BOJE	WILLIAM		1972/FEB
BRANT	EMIL	1876/MARCH/06	1914/JUNE/16
CARLSON	ANNA E.	1894	1977
CARLSON	BARBARA MARIA	1954/MAY/27	1998/JAN/06
CARLSON	DOROTHY RUTH		1927
CARLSON	DOUGLAS W.	1848	1951
CARLSON	EMIL T.	1883	1939
CARLSON	ERNEST A.	1897	1978
CARLSON	HERLA		1935
CARLSON	JULIA M.	1882	1958
CARLSON	OSCAR	1868/MAR/26	1887/JUL/21
CARLSON	ROY WILLIAM	1920/JUN/10	1995/MAY/22
CARLSON	SHANE		1993
CEDAR	BROR	1884	1933
CEDAR	ESTHER	1884	1962
COYLE	_____		????
COYLE	EDNA M.	1911	****
COYLE	RICHARD H.	1911	1981
DREW	DOUGLAS E.	1858	1879/NOV/03
DREW	JAMES	1791	1886/AUG/25
DREW	MARY E.		1898/MAR/22
DROWN	DONNA WIRTJES	1937	1980
FAHLIN	ERICK A.		1912/SEPT/18
FAHLIN	MATHILDA SOPHIA		1909/MAR/12
FAHLIN	OLAF		1930
FAHLIN	OSCAR A.	1887/JUNE/16	1905/SEPT/24
FIHN	____ (BABY)	1912/AUG/24	1912/AUG/24
FIHN	____(BABY)	1913/APR/14	1913/APR/14
FIHN	MABEL MARIA	1914/FEB/34	1914/FEB/24
FOSTER	ARTHUR QUENBY	1905/APR/19	1995/JUN/15
FOSTER	GLADYS B.	1909	1978
HAMER	EMIL		????
HEDWICK	MARY CARLSON		1935
HOBERT	ALBIN P.	1899/MAR/18	1983/MAY/08
HOBERT	ANNA MARIE	1879	1949
HOBERT	ARTHUR C.	1870	1939
HOBERT	ARVID	1899	1983
HOBERT	AUGUST	1853/SEPT/11	1914/NOV/17
HOBERT	BESSIE M.	1855/DEC/11	1890/NOV/28
HOBERT	BLINDA	1867/FEB/03	1951/MAR/16
HOBERT	CARL E.	1896	1980
HOBERT	CHRISTINA LILLIE	1902	1918
HOBERT	EDITH C.	1899	1982
HOBERT	EDLA	1884	1978
HOBERT	EMMA	1869	1943
HOBERT	EMMA L.	1867/DEC/10	1926/SEPT/07
HOBERT	EMMA S.	1863/FEB/09	1950/MAY/31
HOBERT	EVELYN S.V.	1896/JUN/27	1909/JUL/04
HOBERT	GUSTAF	1871/DEC/16	1939/NOV/11
HOBERT	HARRY E.	1881	1959
HOBERT	HELEN		1915
HOBERT	HENRY L.	1886/OCT/23	1909/JUL/17
HOBERT	HILDING	1892	1981
HOBERT	IDA	1873	1953
HOBERT	IDA C.	1905/FEB/20	1978/NOV/23
HOBERT	JOHN	1896/JUN/27	1912/AUG/20
HOBERT	JOHN P.	1851/DEC/02	1908/JULY/29
HOBERT	JOSEPH S.	1894	1979
HOBERT	P. MARK	1858	1928
HOBERT	PETER	1823/JAN/25	1893/JUNE/04
HOBERT	ROY		1918
HOBERT	RUDOLH L.	1911/SEPT/14	1912/JAN/20
HOBERT	SWAN	1872	1958
HOBERT	WILLIAM A.	1897	1953
HOBERT	INGA		1898
HOBERT	MANFRED		1991
HOKANSON	JOHN	1863/JUL/12	1908/MAR/15
HOKANSON	MAGNI	1873/DEC/17	1963/DEC/14
HOKANSON	OLIVIA	1870/DEC/05	1923/MAY/30
HOLM	AGNES	1890	1981
HOLM	CAROLINE	1868	1955
HOLM	CHARLES		1918
HOLM	HELGA C.	1893/DEC/14	1990/FEB/09
HOLM	MATTIE L.	1894	1920
HOLM	OLIVA CHRISTINA	1878/DEC/17	1887/AUG/14
HOLM	OSCAR C.	1888	1978
HOLM	OTTO		1918
HOLM	OTTO T.	1862	1954
HOLM	VICTOR E.	1891	1975
HOLM	____(BABY)	1902/DEC/31	1902/DEC/31
HOLMSTROM	CAROLINE	1839	1922
HOLMSTROM	CHARLES	1839	1912
JOHANSON	JOHAN H.	1910	1936
JOHNSON	ALFRED	1875	1957
JOHNSON	AXEL W.	1884	1950
JOHNSON	BABY		1917
JOHNSON	ELIS		1902
JOHNSON	ELLEN	1841	1926
JOHNSON	ELMER AXEL	1919/AUG/23	1990/APR/20
JOHNSON	ERICK	1897	1973
JOHNSON	FRIDA M.	1888	1971
JOHNSON	HILMA M.	1892	1963
JOHNSON	JOHN E.	1904/MAY/19	1974/SEPT/17
K.....	BUS MR.		????
KALASS	GERTRUDE JACOBA	1914/MAR/26	2007/MAY/09
KALASS	HERMAN J.	1913/NOV/15	1995/JAN/11
KETCHAM	DON D. SR.	1928	****
KETCHAM	PAULINE I.	1926	****
LARSON	CHRISTINA J.	1840	1929
LARSON	GUSTAF	1838/OCT/02	1911/FEB/20
LINDBERG	ALGOT	1879	1966
LINDBERG	ANNA	1838	1911
LINDBERG	ANTON W.	1883	1953
LINDBERG	BESSIE J.	1930	1917
LINDBERG	ELLEN M.	1886	1961
LINDBERG	GUSTAF	1873	1939
LINDBERG	IDA K.	1876	1897
LINDBERG	LILLIE L.	1884	1948
LINDBERG	MARVIN ANTHONY	1921/JAN/28	1998/JUL/06
LINDBERG	SVEN	1836	1914
LINDBERG	VIOLET		1925
LINDER	ELNA L.	1866	1912
LINDER	JOHN O.	1868	1933
LINDER	LILLE G.	1896/DEC/27	1906/SEPT/05
LINDQUIST	BABY		1929
LINDQUIST	PETER		1914
MANSTROM	JOHAN	1846/JAN/17	1913/JAN/15
MANSTROM	SOPHIA C.	1849	1943
MOAT	BERNARD J.	1906	1988
MOAT	BLANCHE G.	1903	1963
MOLINE	HILDING	1905	1967
MOLINE	RUTH	1908/NOV/09	1991/JUL.07
MOLINE	____(BABY)		1904/SEPT/03
MYER	BERTHA E.	1897	****
MYER	FRANK H.	1897	1983
NELSON	____(BABY)		1930/OCT/02
NELSON	NINA HOBERT	1889	1942
NORDLANDER	BETTY	1889	1942
NORTHRUP	___(MRS. B.)		????
NORTHRUP	ELLEN	1857/MAY/09	1918/DEC/21
NYQUIST	ANDREW	1862	1940
NYQUIST	ANNIE M.	1899	1970
NYQUIST	MINNIE	1861	1926
NYQUIST	OTTO W.	1898	1980
OKERMAN	ANDREW S.	1874	1942
OKERMAN	ANNIE	1902	1966
OKERMAN	CARL A.	1861/NOV/12	1913/JAN25
OKERMAN	JOHAN	1837	1906
OKERMAN	JULIA		1971
OKERMAN	MAJA S.	1835	1913
OKERMAN	MARVIN	1900	1958
OKERMAN	NETTIE	1911	1974
OKERMAN	WILLIAM GILBERT	1909/NOV/20	1961/AUG/19
PAHN	ANDREW	1843/DEC/03	1902/JUL/25
PAHN	ANNA	1837/SEPT/27	1909/JUL/27
PAHN	CARL J.	1873/APR/13	1909/SEPT/12
PETERSON	ANDREW P.	1852/JUL/15	1914/JUN/18
PETERSON	ARTHUR E.	1889/MAR/02	1909/JUL/01
PETERSON	CHRISTINA	1852	1931
PETERSON	EDWARD O.	1893	1979
PETERSON	HAROLD B.	1895/FEB/09	1974/JUL/14
PETERSON	HENRY ANTONIOUS	1908/MAY/05	1909/JUN/17
PETERSON	HJALMAR W.	1883/APR/27	1913/MAR/18
PETERSON	LEONARD EMANEUL	1880	1955
PETERSON	LILY	1887	1969
PETERSON	OLGA	1884	1940
PETERSON	VICTOR E.	1900	1961
PETERSON	VICTOR M.	1891	1962
PETERSON	PALMER		1925
RADKE	MARTHA	1933	1988
RADKE	MORRIS	1929	2004/SEPT/26
SAGMOEN	WALTER	1912/OCT/24	1995/JAN/09
SCHONS	HERB J.	1916/APR/27	1985/DEC/10
SELANDER	JOHAN	1830	1906
SELANDER	KAJSA	1838	1926
SUNDQUIST	ALFRED	1883	1975
SUNDQUIST	ARVID R.	1917/MAR/04	1991/MAY/19
SUNDQUIST	JOHN AVID	1879/MAY/06	1918/JUL/13
SUNDQUIST	SIGNE	1877	1966
SWANSON	BEN	1859	1921
SWENSON	ANDREW B.	1851	1928
VAHLSING	LOUIS J.	1867	1944
VAHLSING	MARTHA	1874	1943
VELANDER	JOHN	1853	1895
WAHLIN	ALBIN	1884	1953
WAHLIN	ANNA	1843	1936
WAHLIN	CARL AUGUST	1880	1945
WAHLIN	GUSTAF	1853	1932
WAHLIN	MARIE	1890	1972
WALDEN	ANTON W.	1886	1960
WALDEN	BLINDA	1860/JUL/22	1918/JUL/22
WALDEN	CARL G.	1888/AUG/19	1940/FEB/24
WALDEN	HARRY E.	1887	1967
WALDEN	INA A.	1898	1979
WALDEN	JOSEPH A.	1890	1964
WALDEN	ROGNER L.	1892	1963
WIRTGES	RUBY		1994
WIRTGES	WILLARD G.	1911	1971

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