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  This cemetery is actually about a quarter mile south of where this map showed it, and it is Dove Hill Cemetery.
  The first person buried there was the daughter of the land owner in 1880, Adilia Crossley. The last person buried there was in about 1907. There are about 12 persons buried there now, including 1 Civil War Veteran.
  The idea that it was a Chinese cemetery was because it’s near the Tran continental railroad track that was built near here in the1860’s.
  The problem with that is the Irish workers built the railroad from Omaha Nebraska going west and the Chinese worked on the railroad from the west coast going east, meeting in Promitory Summit in Utah. So there were very few Chinese in the Kearney area 20 to 45 years later. There is some speculation that the land owner A.J. Crossley last name may have been pronounced Cooley by foreign settlers in the area, getting changed to Coolly, a span term for Chinese, but best I can find , there are no Chinese buried there. And I’m the Caretaker of this little pioneer cemetery.

  Added July 06, 2024 by Gary Geist