CEMETERIES:  Forest Home Cemetery, Burnett County

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			FOREST HOME CEMETERY

Forest Home Cemetery is unique in that there are no markers or head
stones for any of the people that are buried there.  The cemetery is
located in an area known as "The Barrens".  To get there you would turn
north off Highway 77 onto Namekagon Trail Road and go 5.7 miles to
Five Mile Road.  Turn right and go another mile.  The cemetery is at the
intersection of Five Mile Road and Dry Landing Road. 

Forest Home Cemetery, also known as Hillock Cemetery and Evergreen
Cemetery, was "rediscovered" by the Wisconsin DNR.  Because there are
no grave markers, a plaque was placed by the Burnett County Historical
Society and the DNR on a large rock at the entrance of this cemetery in
1987.  It reads: 
                   

	"The people are now gone and the land has been reclaimed by
	nature, the past almost forgotten.  These inhospitable barrens
	saw the individual sacrifice and hardships of the Indians and
	early settlers in their attempt to eke out a living in the
	non-fertile environment.  Evergreen Cemetery remains as a
	memorial to the strength and courage of those people who once
	lived here.  It will serve as a reminder to future generations to
	pause and give tribute to those who came before them."