Moe Cemetery in Mason, Wisconsin - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions 29760 Four Corners Store Road
Mason, Wisconsin 54856 United States

Coordinates: 46.37892, -90.94989
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Under the auspices of the 1862 Homestead Act, Martinus and Amelia Moe, Norwegian immigrants, were granted a land patent in 1888. In June of 1886, Martinus provided proof of having continuously lived for five years with his wife and nine children on their 160 acres. Two of their children, Hannah and Peter, passed away a couple of years later and were buried on the property. Thus began the Moe Cemetery. The first recorded burial in the Moe Cemetery was July 2, 1889, conducted by Rev. J.D. Nelsenius. Many burials of persons living and working in the neighborhood followed. In 1906 the Moe family deeded the one-acre cemetery to the Birch Lake Cemetery Society. After having been virtually abandoned, and with the tragic loss of burial records in a house fire, the Moe Cemetery Association was formed in the 1980's to provide needed maintenance. Another adjoining acre was deeded to the Moe Cemetery Association in 1995. In 2004, due to many burials not properly identified, the original one-acre Moe Cemetery was entered in the Wisconsin Burial Sites Preservation program under the terms of Wis. Stats. 157.70(5)(b). No further burials are permitted in this acre. Upon the dissolution of the Moe Cemetery Association, the original one-acre Moe Cemetery and the 1995 one-acre addition, are now under the care of the Town of Lincoln, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. Burials are permitted in the 1995 addition.