WEBSTER COUNTY, NEBRASKA  -  GUIDE ROCK CEMETERY, GUIDE ROCK, NE
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         Archives by: MONA KNIGHT  <MonaNAriz@aol
         SPRING 2001
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I recently made a trip to Guide Rock to finally locate the burial place of 
my Great-Gr-Grandmother Constance Mathilda (Briggs) Sarratt.  Family stories 
indicated that her son Joseph Sarratt had carved her headstone because the 
family couldn't afford a formal stone.  I held out no hope that the 
headstone would still be standing or legible...but lo and behold!  It was there!  

It's a red sandstone roughly cut like a Biblical tablet and laid in 
concrete at her grave.  It reads:  Mother Sarratt born June 30 1844 died 
1916.  He also carved a roughly drawn flower pot and two sprigs of vine.  I 
was truly moved by finding it.  Constance died July 27 1916 and Charles 
moved back to his home place in Brown Co. Illinois where he died.  
Constance is the only Sarratt buried in Guide Rock.  I have ancestors buried in 
Belvidere NE.  

While I was there, I also recorded a few surrounding headstones, (always the 
genealogist!!), and thought someone might find them useful........Mona


NAME				BORN		DIED		NOTES/INSCRIPTIONS
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Constance Mathilda Sarratt	June 30 1844	(July 27) 1916	Maiden name: Constance Briggs

Leonard Lamb 			Apr 7 1877 	Dec 4 1885 	8 yr 7 m 27 d.

Mary Lamb 			1858		1932		Mother 

Hale H. Lamb  			1854		1930		Father

Albert Lathrop 			Oct 14 1847 	Jan 5 1910	Co L 24 NY Cav 

Cyntha R. Lathrop  		May 1 1850 	June 18 1883	wife of A.L.

Annette Lathrop 		May 9 1883 	May 9 1883	daughter 

S.J. Watt 							Co C 1st IL Cav

John Watt 					Dec 9 1880	29 yrs

Gilbert Gophlen 				Feb 1 1898 	aged 57 y 5 m 7 d.

Mary Gophlen 					April 18 1901 	aged 61 y 5 m 18 d.

Melville Stickle 				Aug 12 1879 	aged 6 mo 26 d.

Wife of Casper Matzener 	Aug 21 1821 	Dec 26 1889

Jane Mosher 					Oct 28 1886 	aged 92 yrs 6 m.

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The below information was submitted by Donald Labaj <44017genealogy@ameritech.net> on 27 Feb 2003

I recently stopped in Webster County to do some research, and ended up finding some headstones from
my extended family at the Guiderock Cemetery, which I've enclosed the transcriptions for...Don Labaj


Last		First			Born		Died		Notes
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GRAWBURG	Peter Davis		Jul 11, 1833	Jul 26, 1913	Age 80yr, 15da
WATT		Ella V. [Van Woert]	1868		1961		Simonson Funeral Home
VAN WOERT	George			Aug 29, 1835	Oct 26, 1904
WATT		T. Fred			1853		1937
VAN WOERT	Mary [Grawburg]		1836		1921

	[Notes in brackets are the author's and NOT inscribed on the stone]