Loon Lake Cemetery
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MNSearchers
N 43° 31.564 W 095° 05.645
15T E 330776 N 4821366
Quick Description: This is a historic site where early settlers of Jackson County in Mn were laid to rest. They left the security of civilized settlements to brave the new frontier.
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2006 4:29:20 PM
Waymark Code: WMTXQ
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Long Description:This cemetery which is located on a remote bluff on the eastern
side of Loon Lake, is also known to many as "The Witches
Graveyard." The cemetery is supposedly home to at least two local
witches. One witch was Clarinda Allen who who died in 1885, and the
second witch was Mary Jane Twiliger, who was reportedly beheaded in
1881, by the citizens of Petersburg, Minnesota, at the young age of
eighteen.
Many of the grave sites in the cemetery have been vandalized and
out of the approximately eighteen gravestones that remain standing,
most are covered up by natural overgrowth.
This cemetery has a path leading to it but the cemetery itself
is no longer cared for or maintained.
Almost every single picture i took of this cemetery was blurry
for no reason. I probably got 1 or 2 that were not. Makes you
wonder. Why did some turn out and others did not?
Some names on the graves were Julia Chandler, Infant Chandler, Lars
Christensen, William Allen, Catherine Larson.