Pioneer Cemetery
43.28.016N
085.55.800W
The Pioneer Cemetery was an early site used by residents of the area around what was then Fremont Center. There is a census which is believed to be relatively complete, although most of the markers are missing or sunken. In 1928, 11 of the original interments were exhumed and moved to Maple Grove. Through the efforts of Harry Spooner, the site was rededicated in 1960.
Inscription on the monument:
PIONEER MEMORIAL CEMETERY
For nineteen years, from 1860 to 1879, this sacred acre, the only cemetery in the Fremont area, formed the burial place of many of the pioneers of the area - those who hewed out homes from the wilderness and laid the foundation of the beautiful and fruitful community of today.
"Priceless the heritage they gave,
And we these many years,
Indifferent to our forbears' graves,
Now bring our tardy tears."
This monument, dedicated in 1960, as a permanent memorial to these pioneers, known and unknown, by Harry L. Spooner, son and grandson of pioneers.
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