Agenda - Public Works Committee - 03/20/2018

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'awavy eeeen* The Ramsey Cemetery is located about three miles west of Anoka just north of Highway 10 (NWY4 of NW1A of Sec. 27; Twp. 32, R 25), comprising one acre. The cemetery was originally owned by Alfred Foster who later deeded it Ramsey Town- ship. It was established prior to 1860, platted in 1861 but the first known burials were those of Richard and Jane Porter who were buried there in 1852 — 1854 re spectively. Burials were evidently made when it was open prairie as no roads lead to this area. One soldier, Charles Pitman, Company C of Minnesota Mounted Rangers is known to be buried there. It is not known just how many bodies were buried in this cemetery, but nine have been removed, 6 bodies removed to the Champlin Cemetery, and three others who were removed. The last burial in Ramsey Cemetery was that of John C. Bowers who was buried there in 1879 and who was later moved to Oakwood Cemetery in Anoka. The cemetery was abandoned in 1905. This cemetery was read in 1967 by Herbert Murphy, a Ramsey supervisor at that time. It was read again in 1973 by two members of the Anoka County Historical Society and several stones and markers that had been found by Mr. Murphy were missing at that time. Considerable vandalism has been done in the cemetery. Several Ramsey residents have reported seeing gravestones from this cemetery that were used as sidewalk stones for a nearby house. Among those known to have been buried in the Ramsey Cemetery are: Cornelius Pitman, died April 7, 1881, aged 76 yrs., 9 mos. Broken stone nearby, 21 yrs. -- illegible - children of C. & H. Pitman H. W. Tilden, died Jan. 25, 1882, aged 76 yrs. -- footmarker H. W. T. Louisa D. Tilden, died Dec. 12, 1878, aged 67 yrs. Joseph Read - 1879 Rachel E. Mauger, died Sept. 5, 1883, aged 38 yrs. Matilda B. Mauger, died Aug. 5, 1870, aged 15 yrs. Rachel E., wife of D. P. Mauger, died Nov. 4, 1881, aged 64 yrs. Richard and Jane Porter, 1852 and 1854