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Lancaster Co. NEGenWeb Project

The Yankee Hill Cemetery Association has provided the following list of burials & information. Yankee Hill Cemetery is one of the oldest, if not the oldest cemetery in the Lincoln, Nebraska area. It is located at 1100 West Pioneers Blvd. It is non-profit, governed by an association board consisting of nine unpaid members. It is a beautiful county cemetery, most of which has never been tilled and wild flowers bloom abundantly. It is a cemetery that still has room for a lot more burials and is one of the few locally that still allows upright tombstones.

As with most older cemeteries, there were periods of time when record keeping was at a minimum and there was also a fire which charred some of the record book. The cemetery board is trying to complete the records by reviewing mortuary records and obituaries from local papers. In some cases there are differences between obituary information, the original burial book information and headstone information. Being on this list in no way guarantees that person is buried in Yankee Hill Cemetery or in that spot. It is merely a reprint of the information that we have, accurate or inaccurate as it may be. When there is a headstone, the location on the list is that of the headstone, not necessarily where that person is buried.

Yankee Hill Cemetery
Record of Burials

Surnames Index 

All information on the headstones has been recorded in a database. Please advise us if you known of a burial that is not recorded or if our information is incorrect. Burial information was updated July 2002. Additional information from mortuary records and obituaries from some burials can be obtained by sending a SASE to the post office box below:

P.O. Box 23076 Lincoln, NE 68542

A number of our burials are of persons who settled in the Yankee Hill area. You may find additional information on them by checking this Lancaster County site for the Denton Community Historical Society - this site was previously located on Rootsweb and is no longer available. [4/5/2021]