CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - MEMORIAL DAY BRINGS MANY BACK TO WYNOT
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THE WYNOT TRIBUNE - JUNE 1, 1950

Memorial Day Brings Many Back To Wynot

WYNOT - A large crowd attended the Memorial Day dinner and visited the 
cemetery, decorating graves and also visiting with friends and relatives.  
It is a homecoming for many from away who reserved this day for a visit 
to the old home town.  Many from a distance were in attendance.  The 
graves of soldiers of five wars are found here.  There are 31 civil war 
veterans, three German war soldiers, three from World war, one 
Confederate soldier and two Spanish war veterans buried in the Protestant 
cemetery and one world war veteran buried in Sacred Heart cemetery.

The Bow Valley cemetery of Wynot is thought to be the oldest protestant 
cemetery in the county.  The constitution and by-laws were drafted in 1870, 
over three quarters of a century ago.  The first trustees were Andrew 
McNeal, Dr. H.E. McKenzie, Anton Sauer, W.L. Dickinson and C.W.R. Locke.  
W.T. Van, brother of C.C. Wan from whom the land was secured, was elected 
clerk.  The trustees elected Dr. McKenzie, president and C.W.R. Locke, 
treasurer.  The first board of trustees, with the exception of one, have 
been resting for many years in the cemetery they so carefully planned.  The 
one exception is Andrew McNeal, who is buried elsewhere.  Improvements in 
those early days were naturally slow but as the years rolled by with the 
work of those faithful early residents, men and women working side by side, 
improvements were gradually made.  Water was piped to the cemetery, trees 
and shrubs planted and many projects for beautifying the cemetery have been 
carried out during the years, and now the Bow Valley cemetery at Wynot is as 
attractive in appearance as any of its size anywhere.