Five Mile Cemetery is also known as Peace Lutheran Cemetery and it was established in 1904. Though the plaque states established in 1904, there are about 50 burials that date from 1837 to 1899. It was most likely a family cemetery before the land was donated to the Nidaros Lutheran congregation.
This is one of two cemeteries in the nearby rural farming community. Five Mile Cemetery is maintained and still active. There is a pea field adjacent to the cemetery (the peas were past their prime, though tasty). The cemetery is flat with natural native grasses that is kept mowed. There are just two trees; one near the entrance and the evergreen just as you enter the cemetery. There is a simple white cross at the back of the cemetery. There are some interesting old headstones and a few family plots.
The most recent interment was:
Ida Kristine Kilroe was born in 1928 and passed away in 2017.
Ida must have been a tea drinker as there is a teapot suspended from a small post with clear jewels to represent pouring of the tea into a teacup and saucer that is slightly elevated above the grave marker.
