Klein-Kieffer Cemetery
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Klein-Kieffer Cemetery

Also known as Keiffer Klein Cemetery

Elba Township, Winona County, Minnesota, USA

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  • Get directions County Road 37
    Elba Township, Minnesota 55910 United States
    Coordinates: 44.08680, -91.98612
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The Kieffer Klein Cemetery is quite a hike into the woods on what used to be the Kieffer farm. The stone wall surrounding the cemetery was the foundation of a large barn that burned down shortly after it was built. The damage to the black wrought iron fence was from a tree blown down in a tornado. This cemetery is now on private land being used as a rock quarry. The people in the area became enraged when the owners quarried so close to it that coffins and tombstones started falling out from below. Once invisible from the road, it can now be clearly seen when driving by on the highway because so much land/rock has been excavated.

The photos of the two stones entered were taken from outside the wall. Other stones appear as "readable" however - because the gate is rusted shut - you have to climb over the wall to get to them. That's more than this old lady can do! Besides, the area is ripe with snakes - including rattlers!

The oldest dated tombstone is for Mrs. Casper Kreidermacher (her first name unreadable) who died June 7, 1856 at the age of 22 years from cholera. There are 17 marked graves although a woman who lives across the road said that there were more stones which were removed when broken. The last internment was prior to 1900. This is no longer an active cemetery.



The Kieffer Klein Cemetery is quite a hike into the woods on what used to be the Kieffer farm. The stone wall surrounding the cemetery was the foundation of a large barn that burned down shortly after it was built. The damage to the black wrought iron fence was from a tree blown down in a tornado. This cemetery is now on private land being used as a rock quarry. The people in the area became enraged when the owners quarried so close to it that coffins and tombstones started falling out from below. Once invisible from the road, it can now be clearly seen when driving by on the highway because so much land/rock has been excavated.

The photos of the two stones entered were taken from outside the wall. Other stones appear as "readable" however - because the gate is rusted shut - you have to climb over the wall to get to them. That's more than this old lady can do! Besides, the area is ripe with snakes - including rattlers!

The oldest dated tombstone is for Mrs. Casper Kreidermacher (her first name unreadable) who died June 7, 1856 at the age of 22 years from cholera. There are 17 marked graves although a woman who lives across the road said that there were more stones which were removed when broken. The last internment was prior to 1900. This is no longer an active cemetery.



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  • Added: 18 Apr 2010
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2350969