Find A Grave - Wyuka Cemetery

Abel, Hazel Hempel b. July 10, 1888 d. July 30, 1966
US Senator. She was elected as a Senator from Nebraska to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Dwight Griswold. She served from November 8, 1954 to December 31, 1954, when she resigned.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Anderson, Victor Emanuel b. March 30, 1902 d. August 15, 1962
Nebraska Governor. Served as Governor of Nebraska from 1955 to 1959.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Bryan, Charles Wayland b. February 10, 1867 d. March 4, 1945
Nebraska Governor. Served as Governor of Nebraska from 1923 to 1925, and 1931 to 1935. Also served as a Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska from 1915 to 1917, and 1935 to 1937, he was defeated in 1926, 1928, and 1938, and Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1924. He was the brother of William Jennings Bryan. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Burkett, Elmer Jacob b. December 1, 1867 d. May 23, 1935
US Congressman, US Senator. Elected to represent Nebraska's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1899 to 1905. Also served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1905 to 1911, Member of the Nebraska State Legislature, and Candidate for Republican Nomination for Vice-President in 1916.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Cobb, Amasa b. September 27, 1823 d. July 5, 1905
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. Served as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Wisconsin's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1863 to 1871. Also served as a Member of the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1860, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1873, and Justice of the Nebraska State Supreme Court in 1878. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Section 6, Lot 383
Copeland, Oren Sturman b. March 16, 1887 d. April 10, 1958
US Congressman. Elected to represent Nebraska's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1941 to 1943. Also served as the Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1937 to 1940.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Dilworth, Caleb James b. April 8, 1827 d. February 3, 1900
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He was the commanding oficer (Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel) of the 85th Illinois Vounteer Infantry during most of the Civil War. He served conspicuously during Sherman's campaign for Atlanta and was brevetted a Brigadier General for his gallant and meritorious service there. He was wounded at the Battle of Jonesboro on August 31 - September 1, 1864. He resumed his occupation of lawyer after the war and was Attorney General of the state of Nebraska...[Read More] (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Section 8, lot 1346
Exon, John James b. August 9, 1921 d. June 10, 2005
US Senator, Nebraska Governor. Served as Governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979 and as United States Senator from Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. He did not seek re-election in 1996. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Funke, Otto b. January 31, 1833 d. November 27, 1885
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He was a printer before the war, and entered the army as a private in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Within a short period of time he became a Colonel of the 11th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. At the end of the war he was brevetted a Brigadier General for gallant and meritorious service during the war. After the war he became a traveling agent, hotelkeeper, and postmaster. (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Sec. 8, lot 1588
Hainer, Eugene Jerome b. July 16, 1851 d. March 17, 1929
US Congressman. Elected to represent Nebraska's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 to 1897. He was defeated in 1896. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Hollenbeck, Don b. March 30, 1905 d. June 22, 1954
CBS newscaster and commentator. Colleague of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. He was at one time employed by the newspaper, PM (Picture Magazine). Founded in 1940 by department store magnate Marshall Field III and published in New York, PM was a left-leaning newspaper, and it garnered accusations of being sympathetic to Communism even though it was critical of the Soviet Union for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and of the American Communist Party for supporting it. The newspaper published...[Read More]
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Section 11, Lot 2323
Laws, Gilbert Lafayette b. March 11, 1838 d. April 25, 1907
US Congressman. Elected to represent Nebraska's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1889 to 1891. Also served as Secretary of the State of Nebraska from 1887 to 1889. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
MacRae, Gordon b. March 12, 1921 d. January 24, 1986
Actor and Singer. He is best remembered for his starring roles in the movies "Oklahoma" (1955) and "Carousel" (1956). Born Albert Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey, he was the son of radio star "Wee Willie" MacRae, and his concert pianist mother. When he was very young, his family moved to Syracuse NY, where he attended Nottingham High School, participating in the Drama Club. It was during this time that he also learned to play the piano, the clarinet and the saxophone. He also...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Mouth/jaw cancer
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Marquett, Turner Mastin b. July 19, 1831 d. December 22, 1894
US Congressman. Elected to represent Nebraska as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving in 1867. Also served as a Member of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature from 1857 to 1859, and Member of the Nebraska Territorial Council from 1860 to 1861. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
McKelvie, Samuel Roy 'S.R.' b. April 15, 1881 d. October 6, 1956
Nebraska Governor. Served as Governor of Nebraska from 1919 to 1923, and Lieutenant Governor from 1913 to 1915. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Montgomery, Milton b. May 3, 1825 d. May 23, 1897
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He was the commanding oficer of the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during most of the Civil War. He lost his right arm at the Battle of Decatur during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign on July 22, 1864. After the war, he was awarded Brevet Brigadier General, USV, on March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in Georgia and the Carolinas. After the war he resumed his career as a lawyer. (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Section 4, lot 847
Nance, Albinus b. March 30, 1848 d. December 7, 1911
5th Nebraksa Governor.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Poynter, William Amos b. May 29, 1848 d. April 5, 1909
Nebraska Governor. Served as Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901. (Bio by: K)
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Starkweather, Charles b. November 24, 1938 d. June 25, 1959
Mass Murderer. He and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, were convicted of killing 11 men, women and children in a murder spree that ran over of ten week period, although the majority of persons were killed in the last two weeks of the spree. The killing spree later served as the basis of such Hollywood films as "Born Bad" (1999), "Badlands" (1973), "The Sadist" (1963), "Natural Born Killers" (1994), and other films. Born the third child to a poor family of seven children of Guy and Helen...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Executed in 1959
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Plot: Section 28, Space 996
Strode, Jesse Burr b. February 18, 1845 d. November 10, 1924
US Congressman. Elected to represent Nebraska's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1895 to 1899. Also served as a State Court Judge in 1892.
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA

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