CEDAR COUNTY  NEBRASKA  /  ST. HELENA CITY CEMETERY  ST. HELENA  NE

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The original cemetery records were kept in Omer Jones home. Mr. Jones 
was the cemetery sexton and there was only one set of records. His 
home burned down and the records burned with it.

It has been said that the first year settlers arrived in the St. 
Helena area they lived in caves on the east and south of the 
current cemetery the first winter. Later they built homes in the area. 
Indians contracted some White man's disease and died. There are Native 
Americans buried on the east side of the cemetery.

James Nielsen compiled a cemetery list in 1965.  Mr. Nielsen was very
concerned that the rumor that was published in an early Cedar County 
History Book which school teachers and students contributed to said 
that the first cemetery of St. Helena was on an island in the river. 
That is not true. The cemetery then is where it is now.

He noted that Mrs. Henry Felber had an oak slab tombstone. Her husband 
Henry was proprietor of Felber House, which was later known as Felber 
Tavern.  Jacob Felber and wife, who died 1898 and 1897 respectively, 
were the great-grandparents of the proprietor of Felber Drug of Laurel 
NE during the 1960’s and 70’s.

Also noted that Fred Reifert’s wife dated death dated 1882. Her husband 
was coroner and undertaker and lived in the city of St. Helena.

The six Heckt children's birth and death dates were lost when vandals
destroyed the footstones on their grave sites. These children were sons 
and daughters of Theo and Catherine Heckt. These graves set at the top of 
the hill in the center of the cemetery surrounded by a wrought iron 
fence.

Loren and Ruth Bender, the people of St. Helena and the Jones family 
need to be commended on their efforts to save the cemetery from 
complete destruction. A fence has been erected around the cemetery and 
efforts have been made to spruce up it’s general appearance.

Ralph “Red” Jones was the last person to buried in this cemetery. On 
the gate to the cemetery each pillar has a plaque. One says St. Helena 
Cemetery  and the other says In Loving Memory of Ralph A. Jones.

Inside the cemetery to the north side is a beautiful monument and 
flagpole.  One plaque says “Frances Jones, postmaster 41 years,  St. 
Helena  NE".  On the lower level is a plaque that says: Ralph A Jones   
PFC US Army WW II  Jan. 21, 1918 - Sept. 9,  1991.

This list was made possible by the hard work of Marlys Rice of Concord  NE.
68728, who initially recorded these records on April 1, 1987.

There are very, very, few double stones; because of the age of tombstones 
they are single tombstones.

HELP:  IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THESE OR ANY OTHER GRAVES IN 
THIS CEMETERY, PLEASE CONTACT THE SUBMITTERS!!!


SURNAME  Given Name	DATE(S)			NOTES/INSCRIPTIONS
-----------------------	-----------------------	--------------------------------

ANDRESEN  Adolph   	3/8/1826 - 6/14/1892

BARINGTON  Willie U ?   2/18/1886  		3yrs 1mos 14dys

COWMAN  Sarah   	6/2/1879  		wife of J.P. 30yrs 6mos 25dys

EBINGER  Bertha       	1865 - 1931
EBINGER  Mina    	1840 - 1915
EBINGER  Thomas   	1836 - 1919

EVANS  Etta           	5/25/1879  		dau of G.T. & M.E.  11y 6mos 22dy

FELBER (WERNLE) Jacob   5/21/1821 - 11/24/1898
FELBER  Verna        	2/15/1818 - 3/25/1897 	wife of Jacob
FELBER  Verena (WERNLE) 1/25/1819 - 8/21/1872   wife of Henry
* could be the same lady  very hard to read  stones in different parts of the
cemetery  but dates could be enough alike to be the same--heavy slab of upright 
white painted wood for Verena; badly worn cement marker for Verna. *(not the same lady)

HAGEN  Rosa Lee     	6 / 20/1865 		dau of R.J. & M.J.  6 dys.
HAGEN  Willard     	11/11/1868 		son of R. & M.J.  2 yrs.
HAGEN  M.J.H       				footstone
HAGEN  R.L.H      				footstone
HAGEN  W.H.       				footstone

HECKT  Bathilda F.      8/25/1875  		4y 4m 10 dys
HECKT  Charles C.     	1/16/1877 		son Theo & Cath.  1 mo 11 dys
HECKT  Harrie C.     	9/3/1879  		1 yr. 6 m. 27 dys.
HECKT  Harry  T.      	2/7/1887    		1 day
HECKT  Jessema T.     	6/19/1882 		2 yrs
HECKT  Theodor  F.      11/29/1881  		14yr 4m 1d

HOLCOMB  Eddie    	2/4/1878 		son of R. & L.  9 m.
	*cement marker with LeMars  IA. written on bottom of the stone

JAGER  Marie 		7/29/1832 - 9/6/1901	(OLD STYLE SPELLING JAEGER)
  						wife of Henning

JESSEN  Fritz   	1856 - 1935  		husb of Marie
JESSEN  Marie  		1854 - 1927  		wife of Fritz

JOHNSON  Claudie    	12/21/1881  		son of S.J. & L. 5yr 6m 11dys

JONES  C.D.   		1826 - 1893  		husb of Marie
JONES  James         	2/26/1885 - 6/27/1969
JONES  Katherine      	12/10/1877 - 12/30/1963
JONES  Maria            1832 - 1910  		wife of C.D.
JONES  Omer L.       	12/10/1904 - 5/4/1971

MENG  Andrew  		no dates		husb of Matilda
MENG  Iver J.        	1850 - 1914        	husb of Johanna J.
MENG  Johanna J       	1861 - 1939     	wife of Iver J.
MENG  Matilda       	no dates     		wife of Andrew J.
MENG  Rasmus       	1889 - 1920

MORGAN  Henry Oscar	2/18/1840 - 10/31/1904	unmarked grave
						b. NY d. St. Helena, NE

MOTSON / WATSON ? Estella G.  7/16/1886    	2 m. 1 d.  very hard to read
MOTSON / WATSON ? Mary E.     5/31/1879   	1 m. 17 d.  very hard to read

McDONALD  Howard  F. 	8/29/1891  		son of A.C. & M. A.  9 m. 9 d.

NELSON  Lundegaar Iver  9/11/1887 		1 yr. 5 mos. 12 dys  
						son of John & Mary Nelson
NELSON  John          	12/23/1832 - 8/3/1913  	30 yr. 6 m. 10 d
NELSON  Neck     	12/25/1897  		41 yr.

NIELSEN  * could find no names or dates  large stone

PETERSEN  Anne     	6/20/1892  		dau of Peter & Christina
PETERSEN  Peter     	12/24/1893  		30 yr.

RABEN  Hans       	5/6/1880 - 11/8/1884

RANDALL  Bertha     	5/6/1893 		6 yr 3 m 1 dy
RANDALL  Willie     	10/3/1886 		3 y 23 d

REIFERT  Matilda Domke  2/22/1882 		wife of Fred  33 yr.

REMINGTON  Clarence M.  4/21/1892 		son of E.O. & D.  2 yr.

REMINGTON  Della Samantha 3/6/1897 - 11/23/1897 unmarked grave
						dau of Erving & Dellaphene Remington

REMINGTON  Erving Otto 	6/9/1847 - 7/6/1908	unmarked grave
						b. Yorktown PA
						Co. D 9th Iowa Volunteers
						husb of Dellaphene Ellen Morgan

REMINGTON  Glen 	2-11-1911 - 3-28-1911/12 born & died at St. helena

SCHALLER  Anne      	12/19/1832 - 8/11/1899 	wife of Wilhelm   66? yr.
SCHALLER  Wilhelm     	5/3/1822 - 6/6/1879   	husb of Anna 57 yr.  b. Germany

SHOVE  E. B.          	1860 - 1926

STEINHOFF  George N.   	no dates 		CO K. 139 ILL Inf. Am. Legion

WATSON -- SEE MATSON

WIGGINS  John   	1/1/1841 - 3/30/1896  	b. Brelin  Germany  husb of Maria Nilson
						aka. WIGGEN John  (b. 1/2/1841??)

*** Stones near Nelson and Nielsen

Clemen  		12/26/1845 - 3/14/1925
Clementine  		11/11/1892 - 5/18/1893