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Submitted: 10/9/17 • Approved: 10/9/17 • Last Updated: 10/12/17 • R318219-G0-S3
The first wholly Czech cemetery in Nebraska, called the Big Blue (also National) cemetery, was established in 1868 by the dissenting members of the Reading Society, who did not want the Jindra cemetery used for any purpose but that of a purely Czech cemetery. They bought three acres from Joseph Kopecky (Kopetzky, later a jeweler in Crete) four miles north of the present town of Wilber, at $25.00 per acre. The first body to be interred there was that of Mr. Dajc's wife, in 1869. In May, 1870, the body of John Vozab's father was buried.
Contributed on 10/9/17 by confederate_wolfe
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