Cemetery Saturday: Wilmington Cemetery

Wilmington, in southeastern Wabaunsee County, was founded in 1857 along the Santa Fe Trail. With a booming population and lots of businesses, Wilmington was projected to be a thriving community. In 1880, the railroad chose to go through the county four miles north of Wilmington causing many people and businesses to move there to the new town of Harveyville. Little remains of Wilmington today. The stone school and church, both built in 1870, and a couple of houses. The cemetery can be seen from the school on a small rise a quarter mile away.

Today, the schoolhouse site is a Boy Scouts of America camp site and is listed on the Kansas State Register of Historic Places. The school was consolidated in 1951.

In memory of

EMELY

Wife of

D.A. PRATT

BORN

July 23, 1856

DIED

Sep. 21, 1879

Aged

23y's 1mo.

JULIE E.P.

WIFE OF

E.H. MCMILLEN

MAY 6, 1842

FEB. 27, 1900

LILLIE

1877

E. HARRISON

1840 - 1929

THOMAS LEE BALDWIN

MAR. 17, 1878 - JULY 31, 1915

ANNIE L. BALDWIN

DEC. 10, 1881 - OCT. 15, 1960

ESTHER R. CHRIST

MAY 10, 1907

FEB. 8, 1909

OSCAR KING

JAN. 23, 1900

APRIL 16, 1922

SELINA MOWELL

1835 - 1918