Moravian (Czech) Cemetery

The plaque stops at the last burial in 1906. The care came later. A. B. Syptak, county clerk from 1940 to 1966, kept the plot up, and his father-in-law, Josef Nedbalek, lies there. After Syptak's death Dr. Charles Novosad took over, and in February 1983 he called the meeting that formed the Moravian (Czech) Cemetery Association, incorporated March 28 of that year. In 1985 the association resurveyed the one-acre tract and fenced all of it. The cemetery is reached across private land, so no route is given here.

What the plaque says

Moravian (Czech) Cemetery Land for this cemetery was sold in 1889 by Josef Stasta (1833-1894) to Joseph Mekeska, president of Moravian Brothers Burial Ground. The deed specified the land would be used exclusively for a Moravian cemetery. The cemetery contains eleven grave markers. All but one of the stones are inscribed in Czech. The one English-language stone marks four graves. The earliest known burial is that of Marie Siptak (Jan. 19-Feb. 16, 1885). The last interment took place in 1906. Though only fifteen graves are marked, the cemetery may contain as many as forty-one burials. (1986)

Where it stands

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