Cemetery Location Map (View photos)

Valley View Cemetery
Genoa Township
1/2 mile south of Genoa on Hwy 22; east side of road.

Photos - entrance, cemetery map, Pawnee Memorial site.

 June 2008: Photos of some gravestones added.

Notes:
There are several people from Nance County buried at Friends Cemetery, Northeast of Genoa in Platte County

15 Jun 2001: 22 gravestones for Valley View Cemetery have been posted on FindaGrave. Please search by location and cemetery name.  

"Early Mormon Burials" - A man named PITT (Wm. or Thos.) died in 1857-58 and was buried east of Genoa, near Keatskatoo Trading Post (aka Zigzag). Surnames of others believed to have been buried there: GILLIS, GREENER, KEATES, LATELY. To find the general location - turn east on the county road just north of the Genoa Motel. The trading post was located near where the road "zigzags". Likely that the cemetery was actually in Platte, not Nance County.

Genoa Cemetery - Located 3 blocks north of Genoa School, at top of hill. Burial ground for early pioneers, most were moved to Valley View Cemetery. No gravestones remain. It is rumored that there are some graves - those that were not originally marked.

NOTE: Relocating a body requires permission of the closest living relative. This is difficult to secure - particularly for those buried without markers - often infants or small children whose families "moved on" and did not maintain any local contact. In respect for those possibly still buried on the site, the land is often left without tending, nothing is built.

Pawnee Indian Burials - Students, originally buried on the grounds of the industrial school.
The graves had been marked with wooden crosses. 11 Sep 1990: 403 small caskets (with what remained of the crosses, artifacts, etc.) were moved to the east end of Valley View Cemetery. Members of the Pawnee Nation supervised the reburial with traditional ceremonies. A monument was erected. (Note: Another source states that 435 students were removed to Valley View Cemetery.)