It was the first rural cemetery association incorporated under an 1847 law authorizing the incorporation of such associations.

The first burial at this cemetery is said to have been on June 9, 1849 prior to the land being deeded to the cemetery association.

In 1959 the last burial took place, although the cemetery, now town property, has been maintained ever since by the cemetery association.

The cemetery association was charted by an act of the City Board on September 3, 1907.

A cemetery association was incorporated in 1850, following a pattern around the county.

Not all cemetery associations are eager to replace old stones.

David died in 1988 and his son, Carl John Linge became president of the cemetery association.

And the cemetery association has already started negotiations to acquire another acre to provide still more grave sites.

Later that decade, the cemetery association bought the property to the south and, in 1907, the Woodward Mausoleum was built.

As her community contribution, she headed the welfare program and the cemetery association.