Publication: Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
Author: John Weiss
Publish Date: November 20, 2009
Article Excerpt:
… People could buy three plots for $5 when Riverside opened in 1871, he said. But people often left before using them, or maybe buried one child there and then moved on, forgetting about their plots, he said. “It’s amazing how many are not ever used,” he said.
The cemetery with 6,000 plots has started the legal process for reissuing the sites by putting notices in the legal newspaper, he said. It has to go through several more steps but hopes to take over the plots by the end of the year if no heirs can be found. It will sell them — $500 for one, $900 for two, $1,200 for three — and use that money for cemetery maintenance, Johnson said…