Kobs Pioneer Cemetery

Reaching this cemetery takes a walk. It lies in the northeast corner of Glacier Creek Preserve, beyond the reach of cars, and History Nebraska's account of a June 24, 2016 visit by Butch Springgate, a Fremont man who had seen more than 500 of the state's markers, describes a trail of about a mile and a half that crosses Glacier Creek on the way in. The preserve around the fence is mostly restored tallgrass prairie, with stream, woodland and seep habitats, and the marker went up beside the old graves in 2015.

What the plaque says

Kobs Pioneer Cemetery Albert Kobs (1845-91) emigrated from Germany in 1867. His wife, Henrietta C. (Labs) Kobs (1848-82) emigrated from the same area in 1870 and the couple soon married. They purchased a farm in 1874, on which five of their eight children were born. Before 1900 as many as twenty-five Kobs relatives were buried here in the cemetery, established in 1879. The only marked graves are those of Henrietta C. Kobs and her sons, Charles and August, who both died in 1879. Kobs Family Nebraska State Historical Society, 2015

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winter Quarters and the Mormon Pioneer Cemetery — 9.0 mi
  The Latter-day Saint camp of 1846 to 1848 on Omaha land in what is now Florence, where hundreds died the first winter, and the cemetery and trail center beside it.
• Malcolm X Birthsite — 9.8 mi
  The North Omaha lot where Malcolm Little was born in May 1925 and his family was driven out by the Klan, saved by Rowena Moore and now planned as a cultural center.
• Fort Atkinson State Historical Park — 9.9 mi
  The first U.S. Army post west of the Missouri, a garrison town of more than a thousand people on Council Bluff from 1820 to 1827, rebuilt on its own foundations.
• Joslyn Art Museum — 12 mi
  Omaha's free art museum, a 1931 Art Deco memorial with two modern pavilions, and the keeper of Karl Bodmer's watercolors from the upper Missouri in 1833 and 1834.

More markers nearby

• Boettger Farm — 4.6 mi
• Fort Atkinson — 4.6 mi
• Father Flanagan's Boys' Home — 5.8 mi
• Lincoln Highway at Elkhorn — 6.0 mi