zion historical society

We had to bundle up for the annual cemetery walk on Sunday afternooon.

The Zion City Cemetery was founded in 1902 and renamed Mt. Olivet in 1904. The first burial was November 4, 1902. As of September 20, 2023, there are 15,266 people buried here.

(This entry will tell you more about Zion's origin as a religious community in the early 20th century.)

I portrayed Dorothy Peterson. She was born in Hector, MN, in 1897. Her family came to Zion in 1906. She went to Chicago Music College and became an actress on Broadway. She went to to ...

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Saturday afternoon was sunny, breezy, and a bit cool -- a fine day for the Zion Historical Society's Lake Mound Cemetery Walk. I was among the ten people who portrayed historical personages who are buried in Lake Mound. (Well, technically, nine. The tenth was a soldier who died in Italy in 1944. The cemetery has his cenotaph, which is what is placed when there is no body.) I played Josephine Landon Kellogg whose grandfather was the first non-native settler in Benton Township. Josephine lived at Hollyhock Hill, the successor to the family farm, all her very long life -- born in ...

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