Hillcrest Cemetery - Florence, KS
Posted by: The Snowdog
N 38° 15.162 W 096° 55.695
14S E 681277 N 4235882
This large and well-tended cemetery is north of Florence, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WM14MRP
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2021
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Hillcrest Cemetery, final rest to about five thousand souls, is north of Florence. The cemetery hosts a veterans monument and has a few unusual grave markers, including one where three hundred Russian Mennonites who died in a smallpox epidemic in 1875 were buried in a mass grave.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Florence, Kansas
Approximate number of graves: 5000
Cemetery Status: Active
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
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