CENTRAL RIDGE CEMETERY

by Laura Lowry

Highway 64 leaves Highway 95 at Craigmont and goes to Nezperce.  Mid-way between the two towns is the turn-off to Central Ridge at the site of the old Mohler store.  The Central Ridge Cemetery is located eight miles north on the main Central Ridge Road.  The cemetery lies on the right side of the road on an acre of land donated by an early settler, William W. (Bill) Simmons.

The cemetery records have been kept by the Melcum family.  The cemetery is not part of a cemetery district, so the upkeep has been left to family and friends.  Early in its history the small sum paid for lots was used for a fence to surround the cemetery.

The first burial was in 1898, and the last in 2000.  Many of the graves have no stones, which makes their identification difficult.  With the passage of time fewer descendants of those who lie buried tend the gravesites.  The town of Steel about a mile north of the cemetery and most of the families who settled Central Ridge are gone.  The cemetery remains as a part of those earlier times.

For more information, please contact the Ilo-Vollmer Historical Society, Box 61, Craigmont, Idaho 83523 or Shelley Kuther, skuther@camasnet.com  208-790-7890 or Byron Bovey, bdbovey@wildblue.net  208-924-7336.

 

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