Date: January 26 2001
Cemetery: Saling Family Cemetery
Street: Highway 370 and 54th Street
City: Papillion
Township:
County: Sarpy
State: NE
Nation: USA
Zip: 68123
Nearby: Highway 370 between Bellevue and Papillion
Land Type: Private
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: No
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within: 8-10
Oldest grave: 1860's
Newest grave: early 1900's
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Records location:
Owner:
Condition: Cemetery destroyed
Vandalism
Buried Headstones
Previous contacts:
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Update
Last week when I was visiting Bellevue Nebraska, I went in and show
the Sarpy County Museum director what I have been up to with my work
with pioneer cemeteries. He showed me the only headstone that was left
from this cemetery. (The Cemetery's name is Saling not Sailing).
Apparently the owner of the farm where the headstone was kept died.
(In fact he showed me the headstone back in 1986) It went to another
person who also died and his wife was about to throw the headstone
away but the museum director took it and put it in the museum. The
headstone is in perfect condition. The name on the headstone was that
of Benjamin Saling who died in 1874 at the age of six months. The
director also told me at one time there were six headstone in the
little family cemetery. My concern is that one of these days with the
rapid rate that they are building homes in Sarpy County, that they
will probably build on this piece of land containing the cemetery.
They will probably find the remains of these pioneers. A similar
situation occured on 60th Street and Highway 370. They were building
houses and ran across the remains of the people that were buried in
the Ireland Cemetery (Another pioneer cemetery). This was back in
1966. Sarpy County transferred and buried the remains of the Ireland
Family/Cemetery at Anderson Grove Cemetery (Which is 1 mile south of
the intersection of 36th and Highway 370). There is a marker in
Anderson Grove that has the name of the people buried in the Ireland
Cemetery. My wish is either to find the location of where the cemetery
was and put a fence around it and put back the little Saling boy's
headstone with a marker with the names of the people buried there or
transfer and bury the remains maybe at Anderson Grove.
Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:
name: Anne Braun
Email: annie b-52@aol.com
