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East Bethlehem Cemetery
Strathcona, Roseau County, Minnesota

GPS: 48.602977, -96.236923
Deer Twp, T159N R43W Sec 17

Contributed by Marjorie Broten, Apr 23, 2010, last edited Apr 28, 2010 [mjbroten@centurylink.net]. Total records = 48.

The cemetery directions leaving Strathcona MN drive 3 miles North on Highway #32 watch for County Road #8 turn here left hand side (West) drive 3 miles the cemetery will be on your left side (south) located on the corners of Road #8 & #29.

The established date 1907 on the corner of land owned by Syver E. Haugtvedt looking at the 1913 Atlas. The Haugtvedts 2 sons came down with diphtheria the same day & where overcome by the illness in 1906, which may have been among some of the 1st burials here. A group called the West Pople Grove Congregation organized but never built a church but did have a cemetery, today well known as the Haugtvedt Cemetery. In the year of 1912 the West Pople Grove people joined the Bethlehem Church. No church is present next to the cemetery at this site.

The cemetery association are the owners, families with loved buried here help with the upkeep, the cemetery is in very good condition & is still used for burials.

I did a complete walk thru, reading all of the visible headstones. This is a complete transcript as of Apr 23, 2010. A digital camera has been used for pictures.

- Marjorie Broten

Legend: b. = born d. = died d/o = daughter of

s/o = son of s/w = shares stone with w/o = wife of ( ) = author's comments

Foss, Agnette J., b. 8 Jul 1920, d. 6 May 1987
Foss, Aldora Myra, b. 22 Jul no yr, d. 16 Nov 1955
Foss, Anna (Peterson), b. 2 Mar 1875, d. 15 Sept 1948
Foss, Anton, b. 31 Dec 1890, d. 19 Apr 1962, Mn 163 Depot Brigade WWI
Foss, Arlo Irvin, b. 1932, d. 8 Jan 1933 (obit G.B. Trib 12 Jan 1933)
Foss, Christian, b. 1893, d. 13 Mar 1969, Veteran
Foss, Freeman, b. 8 May 1993, d. 8 Feb 1993, s/o Otto & Anna
Foss, Jessie A., b. 29 Mar 1920, 16 Nov 1983
Foss, Oscar, b. 1907, d. 1972
Foss, Otto K., b. 23 May 1859, d. 23 Apr 1931, (obit G.B Trib 30 Apr 1931)
Foss, Selma Amanda, b. 18 Mar 1902, d. 30 Apr 1982
Foss, Thilmer H., b. 1917, d. 1985
Freng, Cora, b. no date, d. 11 Mar 1906
Freng, Otto, b. no date, d. 10 Mar 1906
Gavick, Mabel O., b. 1901, d. 1962
Gavik, John O., b. 1850, d. Mar 1913, h/o Mary C
Gavik, Manvil H., b. 13 June 1892, d. 13 Feb 1972
Gavik, Mary O., b. 16 Jul 1860, d. 30 Dec 1951
Gustafson, Charles, b. 1888, d. 1912
Gustafson, Julia, b. 1854, d. 1905
Hagen, George, b. /d. no dates
Hagen, Gina, b. /d. no dates
Hanson, Baby O., b. /d. no dates
Haugtvedt, Anton C., b. 1894, d. 2 Jan 1914, (G.B.Trib 9 Jan 1914) s/o Syver
Haugtvedt, Arthur H., b. 1894, d. 8 Mar 1906
Haugtvedt, Calvin Lee, b. no date, d. 22 Nov 1959
Haugtvedt, Curtis Gene, b. 11 May 1939, d. 19 May 1997, (obit R.T.R. 31 May 1997)
Haugtvedt, Emil M., b. 26 Dec 1890, d. 16 Apr 1983, CPL US Army WWI
Haugtvedt, George A., b. 1895, d. 8 Mar 1906
Haugtvedt, Gina (Pederson), b. 1873, d. 30 Sept 1962
Haugtvedt, Hilda, b. 31 Jul 1903, d. 18 Sept 1961
Haugtvedt, James M., b. no date, d. 19 Jan 1959
Haugtvedt, Mabel, b. 28 Dec 1909, d. 3 Jan 1994, d/o Syver & Gina
Haugtvedt, Maria L., b. 1926, d. 1987
Haugtvedt, Martha R., b. 9 Oct no yr, d. 8 Dec 1956
Haugtvedt, Morris, b. 31 Mar 1925, d. 8 Feb 1995, (obit G.F.H. Feb 1995)
Haugtvedt, Olga T., b. 1908, d. 1976
Haugtvedt, Palmer T., b. 23 Dec 1913, d. 15 Jan 2000, married 14 Feb 1953, h/o Delores
Haugtvedt, Richard D., b. no date, d. 19 Aug 1960
Haugtvedt, Richard L., b. /d. 6 Apr 1966
Haugtvedt, Selmer, b. 1918, d. 8 Apr 1919
Haugtvedt, Stanley, b. 16 May 1941, d. 14 Mar 1995, (obit G.F.H. 16 Mar 1995)
Haugtvedt, Syver E., b. 1864, d. 1953, h/o Gina
Johnson, Peter, b. 1840, d. 17 May 1915
Pederson, Amund, b. 10 Mar 1849, d. 14 Jan 1914
Pederson, Kari, b. 1841, d. 1930
Peterson, Annie Bess (Johnson), b. 1880, d. 1913
Thomas, Walter S., b. 16 Jun 1911, d. 4 Apr 2000, h/o Minnie A

Misc:
- locating those missing dates or years for this transcript are very important to be a completed record

Ref:
- Atlas of 1913, 1935, 1942, 1960, 1973, 1976, 1998
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church records
- Burial Permits
- Interviews as needed
- Pioneers I & II
- Remembrances Anthology of RC MN
- Roseau County Heritage Book 1992
- Roseau County Highway Map 2008
- Roseau County Court House
- Roseau County Museum