Welsh Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 47.714046, -119.045608
PLSS Coordinates: SE¼ Sec 28 T26N R30E
County: Grant
Record count: 23

Directions: To reach the cemetery, go about 5 miles west from Almira on Hanson Station Road which becomes Road 44 NE once in Grant Co. Follow it to Road U NE, go south on it 1 mile to a dirt road which goes up a slight hill to where the fenced cemetery lies just to the north, about 100 feet into a wheat field.

Background:

At one time there was a church at that site, but it was torn down in the 1940s after years of dwindling membership.

The cemetery is surrounded by private property. Within the cemetery are six grave areas with decorative metal fencing. Two of those areas have no graves marked within, but the fencing remains.

The Welsh Cemetery was formed in 1892 when George and Esther Roberts deeded two acres of the SE 1/4 Section 28 T26N R30E to the "Zion Welsh Calvinistic Church" for the sum of $1. It's location was in Douglas County until 1909, then Grant. This area about 4 miles west of Almira once had a high population of people originally from Wales, with more than half the settlers in Townships 26 in both R29 and R30 being of Welsh extraction.

Burial Records

• Tombstone Transcription, by Pat Rice, May 1999, (23 records)

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