Highland Prairie Cemetery
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Highland Prairie Cemetery

Bucyrus, Adams County, North Dakota, USA

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  • Get directions 1.25 west of 3rd St NW (3 Mile Bridge Rd) & 9th Ave NW
    Bucyrus, North Dakota 58639 United States
    Coordinates: 46.11888, -102.70943
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This tiny cemetery is believed by some to be the precursor of the Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran cemetery (located 1.25 miles east and .75 miles south). The brother of Anton and Bardines Fuglesten, who are buried here in Highland Prarie, used to refer to this cemetery as Old Immanuel; the dates of Highland Prarie burials (1907-1913) give support that notion. The constitution of Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran was written and approved August, 1907. One month later, two acres of land were donated as Immanuel's building site. Yet construction of Immanuel did not begin until 1923. It is during this time (1907-1923) that all but one of the burials at "Highland Prarie" occured. Further evidence of this cemetery's status as "Old Immanuel" is given by the fact that at least two members of the constituting group for Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran have family, or are themselves, buried here in Highland Priarie. Daniel Fuglesten, father of Anton and Bardines, and Karie Rue, buried here with her husband and two children, were among the group of prairie pioneers who, in 1907, founded Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran. A search of county land records failed to locate any designation of this plot of land as a cemetery. The quarter-section of land where "Highland Prarie" is located has had only two owners beyond the original homesteader, Carl O. Rue. ~Anne (Fuglesten) Oppegard
This tiny cemetery is believed by some to be the precursor of the Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran cemetery (located 1.25 miles east and .75 miles south). The brother of Anton and Bardines Fuglesten, who are buried here in Highland Prarie, used to refer to this cemetery as Old Immanuel; the dates of Highland Prarie burials (1907-1913) give support that notion. The constitution of Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran was written and approved August, 1907. One month later, two acres of land were donated as Immanuel's building site. Yet construction of Immanuel did not begin until 1923. It is during this time (1907-1923) that all but one of the burials at "Highland Prarie" occured. Further evidence of this cemetery's status as "Old Immanuel" is given by the fact that at least two members of the constituting group for Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran have family, or are themselves, buried here in Highland Priarie. Daniel Fuglesten, father of Anton and Bardines, and Karie Rue, buried here with her husband and two children, were among the group of prairie pioneers who, in 1907, founded Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran. A search of county land records failed to locate any designation of this plot of land as a cemetery. The quarter-section of land where "Highland Prarie" is located has had only two owners beyond the original homesteader, Carl O. Rue. ~Anne (Fuglesten) Oppegard

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