Spring Valley Cemetery Walking Tour

The Spring Valley Cemetery first annual history walk was on Saturday June 21, 2008. Over 70 participants joined us and the Spring Valley Cemetery Association for this special look into history.  If you could not make the June tour we hope that you will join us next year, keep watching this site for more information.  In the meantime please enjoy the photos from our first annual Spring Valley Cemetery tour.

Featured in Station 1 was the Best family with Janet Best Pisciotta and Charlotte Best Rubenking presenting.

Featured in Station 2 was the Seaberg/Dahlberg families with Jerry Dahlberg presenting.

Featured in Station 3 was Gwillimville, with Laura Bailey and Brendon Younger presenting information about the small town of Gwillimville and the story of two of the Gwillim children who died of diphtheria.

Brendon and Laura did an outstanding job.

Featured in station 4 was the Thompson and Hodgen Families presented by Barbara Thompson Morehead.

Station 5 featured “Irish” Pat Murphy presented by Dave Hamling.

Dave and wife Danna are pictured at the left. Danna is the President of the LHS. The photo on the right shows Dave complete with Irish brogue, delivering the story of pioneer Pat Murphy.

Station 6 gave us a glimpse into the Younger families’ life with Dee Younger presenting.

Featured in station 7 was the Noe family presented by Ida May “Grandma” Noe.

Grandma Noe is seated in the middle of the gathered group.

Our last station was presented by Archivist Johanna Harden of the Douglas County Libraries History Research Center.  Johanna presented the story of Anna Russell.

In addition to the presentations of the denizens of the cemetery, local historian, Ben Priest, shared his knowledge about the pioneers, mountain men and Indians of the area.

Ben is on the right. His display of historic artifacts and the stories he shares are always interesting.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in this first annual event. A special thanks to those who worked to make the day such a success.  It was a pleasure to share history with all of you.  LHS

P.S.  The tombstone of Horace Reynolds was recently returned to the cemetery.  It had been replaced with the tombstone in the forefront of this photo. After an absence of approx 16 years it is good to have the original back in place.

 Photos (c)2008 - Sue Koller