Learn From Voices From The Past At Aurora’s Old City Cemetery
May 23, 2019
A unique experience will take place on Saturday, May 25, (Memorial Day Weekend), from 12 noon until 2 p.m. at the Old City Cemetery in Aurora, 600 S. Elliott Avenue, between Jimmy Michel Motors and Price-Cutter.
Members of the Aurora Historical Society will be located throughout the cemetery, telling about people buried there. They will be pointing out interesting gravestones, symbols and inscriptions.
Feel free to walk between the various stops on the self-guided cemetery tour. Look for a metal folding chair with yellow plastic tape and a balloon on the back to identify the various locations on the tour. There is no required sequence for visiting the different sites.
Some of the graves to be visited include: Civil War veterans, a farmer, a preacher, a mine owner, infants, children, youths and adult men and women of various ages.
Burials in that cemetery began in the late 1800s and continued through the early 1900s, when it was nearly full. All official records of burials in Aurora’s Old City Cemetery were lost when the previous city hall burned in 1914. The huge Maple Park cemetery opened in 1900 much further south on Elliott Ave. in Aurora.
“Voices from the Past” is a free event.
For more information, call (417) 234-6826.
A unique experience will take place on Saturday, May 25, (Memorial Day Weekend), from 12 noon until 2 p.m. at the Old City Cemetery in Aurora, 600 S. Elliott Avenue, between Jimmy Michel Motors and Price-Cutter.
Members of the Aurora Historical Society will be located throughout the cemetery, telling about people buried there. They will be pointing out interesting gravestones, symbols and inscriptions.
Feel free to walk between the various stops on the self-guided cemetery tour. Look for a metal folding chair with yellow plastic tape and a balloon on the back to identify the various locations on the tour. There is no required sequence for visiting the different sites.
Some of the graves to be visited include: Civil War veterans, a farmer, a preacher, a mine owner, infants, children, youths and adult men and women of various ages.
Burials in that cemetery began in the late 1800s and continued through the early 1900s, when it was nearly full. All official records of burials in Aurora’s Old City Cemetery were lost when the previous city hall burned in 1914. The huge Maple Park cemetery opened in 1900 much further south on Elliott Ave. in Aurora.
“Voices from the Past” is a free event.
For more information, call (417) 234-6826.