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SEXTONVILLE CEMETERY
Catalogued October 15 - 16, l974 by H. A. Dieter. Located one fourth
mile east of Sextonville on County Trunk B in Section 5, Town of
Buena Vista. This is a well kept cemetery with only two broken markers
of the old slab variety. There are many bronze plate monuments, very
unique in design and of sturdy non-rusting metal. They seem to have
come into popularity between the era of slab models and the early
modern granite stones. There are 46 known veterans buried here. Early
records had referred to this most pleasant cemetery as being "in the
woods" or "out on the hill". The ground was donated by Charles DeVoe
Sr. and surveyed in 1852 by Joseph E. Irish. The first burial was that
of Phillip H. Miller in 1846. His burial and that of his sister, Sarah
J. Janney, occurred before the land was set aside as a public cemetery.