George Matson was a chair at the first meeting of the Summit View Cemetery Association (formerly South Ottawa Cemetery) on July 10, 1847.
He proposed to erect a picket fence around the perimeter of red cedar; to lay the grounds out in twenty-foot square plots, with alleys; and not to sell any plots that there were already burials on, except to the family of the deceased. He proposed selling the new lots for $5.00 each. In July, he surveyed, and laid out the lots, and had the plat recorded in the county recorders office, where it can still be found today.
He proposed to erect a picket fence around the perimeter of red cedar; to lay the grounds out in twenty-foot square plots, with alleys; and not to sell any plots that there were already burials on, except to the family of the deceased. He proposed selling the new lots for $5.00 each. In July, he surveyed, and laid out the lots, and had the plat recorded in the county recorders office, where it can still be found today.
George Matson was a chair at the first meeting of the Summit View Cemetery Association (formerly South Ottawa Cemetery) on July 10, 1847.
He proposed to erect a picket fence around the perimeter of red cedar; to lay the grounds out in twenty-foot square plots, with alleys; and not to sell any plots that there were already burials on, except to the family of the deceased. He proposed selling the new lots for $5.00 each. In July, he surveyed, and laid out the lots, and had the plat recorded in the county recorders office, where it can still be found today.
He proposed to erect a picket fence around the perimeter of red cedar; to lay the grounds out in twenty-foot square plots, with alleys; and not to sell any plots that there were already burials on, except to the family of the deceased. He proposed selling the new lots for $5.00 each. In July, he surveyed, and laid out the lots, and had the plat recorded in the county recorders office, where it can still be found today.
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This stone was just located in the Summit View Cemetery. It was 8"'s underground. He was not listed on our official burial records probably because the farm land around the public cemetery was just sold in 1847. He is buried next to Rebecca, his wife
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