BLUE SPRING CEMETERY (#97)

T26N R73 SEC 26

Map #8u

 

 

Located north of Fisk, this cemetery is no longer used, but there is evidence that is was a fair sized cemetery. Ken Risinger, whose family is buried there, wrote the following to Betty Hanks in 1986:  "... According to Dan Erickson, the forest ranger who lives [near] the cemetery, there are about 50 gravesites there.  Most of them, or at least quite a few, are from the CHILDRESS family, which was my mother's maiden name.  When I first saw this cemetery back in 1935... I could read only four names chiseled on the headstones of native rock.  Mary Ann, my grandmother; Alva, her son, about age 6; James, my grandfather; and Sarah, a daughter, about 20.... 

I [believe] that my great-grandparents [Major L. and Sabra (LONG ) CHILDRESS ] are buried at Blue Springs, as well as [several of their descendants]..."

 

 

CHILDRESS , James  [died before 1919]

CHILDRESS , Mary Ann [ASHER]

                 [died before 1919]

CHILDRESS , Alva

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Researched by Betty Hanks

 

 

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