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	Melvin Cemetery McVille, Nelson County, North Dakota

Date: August 27, 2001

Cemetery: Melvin Cemetery
Established: 1888
Street: NW 1/4 Section 33 Melvin Township Nelson County North Dakota or 10 miles north of the intersection of Highway 15
and County Road 5
Type: Road-public
City: McVille about 8 miles southwest of cemetery
Township: Melvin
County: Nelson
State: North Dakota
Nation: USA
Zip: n/a
Nearby: Highway 15 about 10 miles south of the cemetery
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Watersource: No
Features: Prairie Grass and flowers
Sign: No
Land Type: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Gravestones: about 6
Oldest: 1888
Newest: 1908
Unmarked: Unsure
Broken: No
Toppled: Yes
Buried: Yes
Removed: Unknown
Weather problems: No
Pollution problems: No
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Red River Genealogical Society Nelson County Cemeteries Volume 12 1975
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Good
Problem: Apathy
Restoration: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: No
Contacted: N/A

Other Information
This is another pioneer cemetery that has Norwegian immigrants. Four of the burials occurred between April 2-6 1890, due to an outbreak of diptheria. The cemetery had been neglected and there is one headstone buried in the prairie grass that I stumbled upon but I could not lift it up to see what names are on there.

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name: Anne Braun
Email: annieb52@aol.com

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