St. Joseph’s Cemetery – Bancroft, Nebraska

St. Joseph’s Cemetery outside of Bancroft, Nebraska is the final resting place for many ancestors on the Kelly side of the family. It is located at the corner of two dirt roads listed as R and 25th on Google Maps. The GPS coordinates are (41.987894, -96.554486).

It appears that nearly all markers are listed and shown on the Nebraska Gravestones website. The listings on Find a Grave are pretty sparse as of this writing. Relevant data to be obtained by visiting this cemetery includes the following (names in parentheses were added by me for clarity):

NameAlvin Browning
Birth Date1880
Death Date1969
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135882
 
NameMary Jane (Kelly) Browning
Birth Date10 Jul 1874
Death Date26 May 1953
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135887
 
NameRobert Evans
Birth Date14 Aug 1824 (computed)
Death Date10 Feb 1899
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135967
 
NameJane Kilroy (Evans)
Birth Date10 Oct 1838
Death Date15 Oct 1904
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135966
 
NameMichael Kelly
Birth Date1849
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135833
 
NameJohanna (Evans) Kelly
Birth Date1858
Death Date1882
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135834
 
NameMary (Cronin) Kelly
Birth Date1869
Death Date1907
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135835
 
NameEdward Kelly
Birth Date1882
Death Date1882
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135836
 
NameJohn R. Kelly
Birth Date1879
Death Date1958
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135838
 
NameMinnie P. (Pearl Peterson)
Birth Date1882
Death Date1914
Referencehttp://nebraskagravestones.org/view.php?id=135839

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