Princeton Pioneer Cemetery Gravestones

Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota T36N-R26W, Section 28

This cemetery is located at the intersection of 11^th Street North and 5^th Avenue North in Princeton. The cemetery is owned by the city of Princeton and has not had any burials in a number of years. The list of marked burials on this page was taken from a list that was given to the city of Princeton.

Portions of this cemetery were excavated during a road reconstruction project between 1998 and 1999. Per the Louks Project Report 99505, created for the Minnesota Office of the State Archaeologist, titled “Archealogical Monitoring and Feature Salvage at the Princeton Pioneer Cemetery (21ML76), City of Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota”:

… use of the cemetery appears to have extended from the mid-19^th century into the first half of the 20^th century.

… human remains were encountered in July 1999 by a construction crew working on a storm sewer line under 11^th street. This area borders the Pioneer Cemetery on the south. It is within the original, informal limits of the cemetery as documented through oral history interviews, which apparently extended south to the bank of the Rum River prior to construction of the street and the City Maintenance Building. One informant reported that settlers in the area encountered graves in their cultivated fields, and reburied the bodies in the area northeast of 11^th Street and 5^th Avenue now marked by the cemetery sign.

… all of the human remains and artifacts recovered in 1998 and 1999 were turned over to the Office of the State Archaeologist for reburial.

?, Mother	21 October
Bandemer, Carl	22 February 1841 – 17 April 1922
Bergmann, Peter	Died 6 October 1897, after 66 (?) years 10
Brandemer, Agusta	17 January 1851 – 16 December 1909
Burnham, Charles E.	Dies 11 April 1872, aged 5 years, child of H.F. and M.E. Burnham
Burnham, Emma J.	Died 10 April 1872, aged 4 years, child of H.F. and M.E. Burnham
Burnham, Mary E.	31 August 1896, aged 55 years, wife of H.F. Burnham
Cordes, Henry	1834 – 1908
Cordes, Ruth M.	3 January 1901 – April 1910
Hatch, S.D.	15 July 186? – 20 July 1861
Hilton, Rachel	Died 23 February 1870, aged ? 2 months, wife of H. Hilton
Kordes, H.	30 January 1889 – 13 Daz 1893, after 54 (?) years 10 (?) 3 days
Lentz, Hulda F.	1890 – 1921
Lieske, Mathias	21 August 1821 – 3 February 1907
Liskey, Louis	Co. K 1 Neb Cav
Lustig, Florian	11 April 1862 – 8 April 1899, after 30 years 11 months 28 days
Schlee, Ida	16 October 1892 – 30 January 1901

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