Date: May
30, 2001
Cemetery: Hale Cemetery
Established: 1879
Street: 3 miles northwest of the intersection of county roads 23
and 12
Type: Road-public
City: Hatton about 4 miles east/southeast
Township: SW 1/4 Sec 5 Newburgh
County: Steele
State: ND
Nation: USA
Zip:
Nearby: About 4 miles west of Hatton near the Steele/Grand Forks
County Line
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Water: No
Features: Trees and Prairie Grass
Sign:
Land Type: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Unsure
Gravestones: 10-12
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: Yes
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: No
Pollution problems: Unknown
Oldest grave: 1879
Newest grave: 1947
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Red River Genealogical Society
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Vandalized: Yes
Police report: No
VA: Gravestones-Overturned
VA: Gravestones-Broken
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Good
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted: Steele County News
Other Information
The cemetery was established in 1879. The
majority of the burials is that of the Sondreaal family who homesteaded
there. There are broken headstones, buried headstones, and fallen
headstones. It had a lot of prairie grass and thatch in there. We don't
know if headstones are buried in that.
Submitted by:
name: Anne Braun
Email: annieb52@aol.com
