RHINEHART CEMETERY, DAWSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA Prepared by Beverly Scrutchfield Diefenderfer, September 1997, based on Mrs. Mary Darlings report to the Dawson County Historical Society, dated October 11, 1962. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, December, 1997 by Beverly Scrutchfield Diefenderfer (BDiefen249@aol.com). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. ************* Rhinehart Cemetery The Rhinehart Cemetery is located seven miles north and a little over three miles east of Cozad in Dawson County, Nebraska. This small community cemetery is situated in the middle of pasture land on a hill over looking the Platte River Valley. The name Rhinehart came into being as the cemetery was on land owned at one time by the Rhinehart family. An obituary written in 1890 refers to this cemetery as the Buffalo Table cemetery. A small cemetery, it has been enclosed by a wire fence to keep the cattle from trampling the few remaining gravemarkers. The cemetery dates back to the early 1880's and was used for about twenty years, when the Bethel Church and cemetery were started in 1894 some of the bodies were moved to Bethel (the Bethel cemetery is also known as Cottonwood cemetery and the Church is gone). In a copy of Mrs. Mary Darlings report to the Dawson County Historical Society, dated October 11, 1962, she stated "No records or plot of this cemetery can be found. There are only four gravestones intact. Some of the other burials are known but there is no way of telling which is which." The four remaining gravestones in 1962 were: Ola Harrison born 29 May 1881 died 16 June 1885 Mary Shannon died 4 Sept 1890 age 51 years 14 days Mary Whaley Hawley died 23 April 1899 John Hawley died 19 Sept 1899 age 76 years 2 mo 2 days The following are known burials either from the 1962 report or family genealogy records: Alfred Pearson born 8 Jan 1832 died December 4, 1882 -of gunshot wounds inflicted by John J. Cozad (Alfred was the son of Henry and Abagail Bradway Pearson) Rachel Harriet Agnes Leonard Pearson born 29 Sept 1829 died 15 Jan 1894 (wife of Alfred Pearson, daughter of John G. and Saloma D. Ward Leonard) William Alfred Pearson born 20 Oct 1853 died 25 Dec 1886 (son of Alfred and Rachel Harriet Agnes Leonard Pearson) Baby Pearson date of death unknown (son of George Quency (Dick) and Frances Wright Pearson) Three children of John Henry and Rose Ann "Dee" Berryman Borders: William McCarel Borders born 3 July 1880 died in infancy Roy Theodore Borders born Dec 1881 died in infancy Claudy Borders born 10 July 1883 died 1886 Four children of James Hiram and Martha W. Borders Cover: Maud Cover born 17 Sept 1882 died 9 August 1884 Fredrick Cover born 10 Jan 1889 died July 1890 Orpha Cover born 16 Sept 1892 died 1898 Eugene Rover Cover born 3 May 1894 died 1894 Alice Rebecca "Ellen" Buckley born 14 Sept 1885/6 died 27 May 1890 (daughter of Oliver and Mae Pearson Buckley) Buckley Two other Buckley children are noted on the 1962 report. Curtis Berryman infant brother of Troy Berryman _____ Berryman infant brother of Frank Berryman Bolen Thomason born 4 Dec 1830 died 12 March 1890 - Father of Robert Thomason Two bodies are known to have been moved to Cottonwood Cemetery (also known as Bethel Cemetery). They were: Etta Rhinehart died 1887, age 17 _____ Achison died 1884