From the Cemetery readings done by the Genealogy Society
in 1978. They included a little information about each
cemetery. Here is what was said about Fairmont Cemetery:
Legal description is in Rusco Township 34-11-16 in Buffalo
County, Nebraska. On May 26, 1893, A. J. Scott sold 2 acres
for $25.00 to the Church of Christ and at this writing (June
7, 1978) it is still owned by the Church of Christ. In 1886
the Fairmont Cemetery was known as the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Association. The warranty deed is recorded in the Register
of Deed’s office at the Court House in Kearney as 51-483 and
51-482.
Alice Howell, in her Buffalo Tales article on churches in
Buffalo County, says that “The Church of Christ had a rural
congregation in Rusco Township as early as 1893, in Elm
Creek in 1913 and Miller in 1914.” Fairmont would be the
cemetery that was established beside that church in Rusco
Township.
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