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To locate the Lakeview Cemetery: From Hwy. 2 turn west on Ontario Street continue 200 meter then turn south on S. Division Avenue to cemetery, 400 meters.

The Lakeview Cemetery is located in Bonner County. The Lakeview Cemetery is a community cemetery with approximately 2,377 interments.

It was established in 1903. There are 20 interments that were moved from the old Humbird Cemetery in 1893.

This is a most interesting cemetery that has several zinc headstones, large old headstones and is beautifully maintained.

"A Place of Remembering

When the little village, that was to be Sandpoint, people gathered along the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks and needed a place in which to bury their dead.

The land on the West side of the creek was a remote forest and a plot more accessible was needed. A Mr. Ferguson donated to the Town of Sandpoint a strip of land to be used for burial purposes.

In 1893 the J.D. Nesbitts owned the Humbird Lumber Co. and once established more land was needed. The Humbird Co. purchased the ground on which the cemetery was located. The Humbird Company had its manager, A.E. Rickard, purchase a five-acre plot of land for the purpose of moving the bodies of those that had been buried in the old cemetery.

Today, these five acres are known as the old part of Lakeview Cemetery. In 1929 another four acres was purchased in order to expand the cemetery.

To walk through the quiet and serene area is like experiencing a page from the history of a town and its people. The bodies of men and women who served in the armed forces of our country are buried at Lakeview. As one stands and gazes at the beautiful trees and the lake one experiences a sense of quietude as if some unheard voice is saying to those sleeping there, "Take your rest, take your rest."

Someone once said that you could tell the character of a town by the way they maintain their places of burial. From the beginning people stepped up and took a responsible role in maintaining Lakeview Cemetery.

In 1903, A.E. Rickard, H.E. Hunt, P.H. Moran, and Charlie Foss filed articles of incorporation. This group of men became the first managers of the new Lakeview Cemetery."

(This article was edited for content.)

Source - A Place of Remembering by Bob Gunter:
http://www.sandpoint.com/Community/history_aplaceofremembering.asp
The list that follows is the interments that were moved from the old Humbird Cemetery to the Lakeview Cemetery.

1881 - Father Barton: Born in 1866 and he died in 1881
1885 - Hattie M. Baldwin: Born on May 5, 1870 and she died on March 7, 1885
1895 - *Infant Law: Birth unknown and died on September 4, 1895
1896 - J. T. Baldwin: Born on December 7, 1843 and died on April 1, 1896
1897 - John V. Nesbitt: Born in 1850 and he died in 1897
1898 - Jennie A. Chen: Birth unknown and he died on June 8, 1898 age: 24
1900 - Clayton H. Mofford: Born on December 15, 1899 and he died January 4, 1900
1900 - John Piatt: Born on January 2, 1892 and he died on April 20, 1900
1900 - Ralph D. Nesbitt: Born in 1881 and he died in 1900
1900 - Sadie Bigelow: Born on May 19, 1856 and she died on February 14, 1900
1901 - Clara Igle Selle: Birth unknown and she died on October 25, 1901 age: 17
1901 - Cora Selle: Born in 1878 and she died in 1901
1901 - Thekla Lammers Page: Born in 1875 and died in 1901
1901 - Vera M. Allen: Born in 1901 and she died in 1901
1902 - Barbara Lineham: Born in October 1895 and she died in September 1902
1902 - Harold E. Loveland: Birth unknown and he died on March 1, 1902: Age 2
1902 - Stephen Workman: Born in 1848 and he died in 1902
1903 - Charles Gorman: Birth unknown and he died on February 20, 1903
1903 - Cleora Butterfield: Born in 1836 and she died in 1903 1903 - N. N. Baker: Born: on February 18, 1847 and died on August 22, 1903

There are 28 "Baby" and 2 "Infant" gravesites located within the cemetery.