Source: Franklin Historical Society - Pioneer Cemeteries - Reminders of the Past.
What many people may not realize is that Franklin is believed to have the oldest marked grave site in Milwaukee County, with its earliest burial occurring in 1839. This cemetery sits quietly on a barren hill on the east side of So. 68th St. between Puetz Rd. and Ryan Rd. It is surrounded by a white picket fence and marked with a five foot high white painted concrete cross. There is a sign near the road that says “Carman Family Cemetery — Milwaukee County Landmark — 1982”.
It was Edmund Carman, his wife and their children who arrived in Franklin from England in 1837. Carman, a farmer, purchased 160 acres from the US government in 1839 , and it was in that same year that his daughter Eliza, age 18, died. She is the earliest marked grave in the cemetery. Edmund Carman died in 1865, having been preceded in death by his wife and two other children, and is the last known burial in the cemetery. Little is known about the other people buried there except for Elias Burr, who died in 1852 and had been a Franklin town supervisor in the 1840’s. It was probably his descendents who purchased the property in the 1930’s and ran the Burrwood Stock Farm. Later in 1946, ownership was transferred to Milwaukee County. In 1982 the cemetery was designated a Milwaukee County landmark and in 1988 it was restored by the Milwaukee County House of Correction (now the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility – South) and the Wisconsin Conservation Corps.
What many people may not realize is that Franklin is believed to have the oldest marked grave site in Milwaukee County, with its earliest burial occurring in 1839. This cemetery sits quietly on a barren hill on the east side of So. 68th St. between Puetz Rd. and Ryan Rd. It is surrounded by a white picket fence and marked with a five foot high white painted concrete cross. There is a sign near the road that says “Carman Family Cemetery — Milwaukee County Landmark — 1982”.
It was Edmund Carman, his wife and their children who arrived in Franklin from England in 1837. Carman, a farmer, purchased 160 acres from the US government in 1839 , and it was in that same year that his daughter Eliza, age 18, died. She is the earliest marked grave in the cemetery. Edmund Carman died in 1865, having been preceded in death by his wife and two other children, and is the last known burial in the cemetery. Little is known about the other people buried there except for Elias Burr, who died in 1852 and had been a Franklin town supervisor in the 1840’s. It was probably his descendents who purchased the property in the 1930’s and ran the Burrwood Stock Farm. Later in 1946, ownership was transferred to Milwaukee County. In 1982 the cemetery was designated a Milwaukee County landmark and in 1988 it was restored by the Milwaukee County House of Correction (now the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility – South) and the Wisconsin Conservation Corps.
Source: Franklin Historical Society - Pioneer Cemeteries - Reminders of the Past.
What many people may not realize is that Franklin is believed to have the oldest marked grave site in Milwaukee County, with its earliest burial occurring in 1839. This cemetery sits quietly on a barren hill on the east side of So. 68th St. between Puetz Rd. and Ryan Rd. It is surrounded by a white picket fence and marked with a five foot high white painted concrete cross. There is a sign near the road that says “Carman Family Cemetery — Milwaukee County Landmark — 1982”.
It was Edmund Carman, his wife and their children who arrived in Franklin from England in 1837. Carman, a farmer, purchased 160 acres from the US government in 1839 , and it was in that same year that his daughter Eliza, age 18, died. She is the earliest marked grave in the cemetery. Edmund Carman died in 1865, having been preceded in death by his wife and two other children, and is the last known burial in the cemetery. Little is known about the other people buried there except for Elias Burr, who died in 1852 and had been a Franklin town supervisor in the 1840’s. It was probably his descendents who purchased the property in the 1930’s and ran the Burrwood Stock Farm. Later in 1946, ownership was transferred to Milwaukee County. In 1982 the cemetery was designated a Milwaukee County landmark and in 1988 it was restored by the Milwaukee County House of Correction (now the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility – South) and the Wisconsin Conservation Corps.
What many people may not realize is that Franklin is believed to have the oldest marked grave site in Milwaukee County, with its earliest burial occurring in 1839. This cemetery sits quietly on a barren hill on the east side of So. 68th St. between Puetz Rd. and Ryan Rd. It is surrounded by a white picket fence and marked with a five foot high white painted concrete cross. There is a sign near the road that says “Carman Family Cemetery — Milwaukee County Landmark — 1982”.
It was Edmund Carman, his wife and their children who arrived in Franklin from England in 1837. Carman, a farmer, purchased 160 acres from the US government in 1839 , and it was in that same year that his daughter Eliza, age 18, died. She is the earliest marked grave in the cemetery. Edmund Carman died in 1865, having been preceded in death by his wife and two other children, and is the last known burial in the cemetery. Little is known about the other people buried there except for Elias Burr, who died in 1852 and had been a Franklin town supervisor in the 1840’s. It was probably his descendents who purchased the property in the 1930’s and ran the Burrwood Stock Farm. Later in 1946, ownership was transferred to Milwaukee County. In 1982 the cemetery was designated a Milwaukee County landmark and in 1988 it was restored by the Milwaukee County House of Correction (now the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility – South) and the Wisconsin Conservation Corps.
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Edmund Carman
Died
May 9, 1865
AE 72 y'rs
Ann
Wife of
Edmund Carman
died
Apr. 7, 1860
AE 70 y'rs
Gravesite Details
Ann's husband Edmund Carman arrived in Franklin in 1837, bought 160 acres of farmland, setting aside 1/2 acre for a cemetery.
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