According to the Sheridan Star, the “new” cemetery was where the Court House is now.
The city acquired land at the present cemetery. Before they could build the new Court House they had to move all the ancestors from that land. The newspaper said they moved as many as they could. A few they put in a single grave in the new cemetery. The markers in the old cemetery were wooden and became weathered and some were unreadable. There were “some” graves they could not evacuate and they did not have names SO THEY BUILT THE COURT HOUSE OVER THE GRAVES. This is the last cemetery where the settlers were reinterred. 
FIRST CHILD BURIED:
The first child, and probably the first person to be buriedhere, was Ida Cornwall, daughter
fof Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Cornwall, pioneers of Sheridan county. The little girl was between
5 and 7 years of age. The body was one of the first moved to the new cemetery in 1890.
Cowpunchers Buried
Two unknown cowpunchers were buried on the hill south of Jithe old graveyard before any arrangements
were made for a {cemetery. Their names and the ‘exact location of their graves ave never been learned.
The first white woman buried Sheridan county was Mrs. Eliza Thurmond, wife of Elias Thurmond.
She had laid away with her tiny baby in a solitary grave NE, half mile east of the place where the sugar actory now stands. The site of her grave has long been unknown, and her body has never been, discovered.
Homer Loucks, assistant,recalls from his childhood experiences a Memorial day in the old cemetery.
He states that there was an imposing procession, a quarter of a mile long. He especially remembers their splendent uniforms the G. A. R. who in those times occupied the place . Present Mount Hope cemetery was.
R. P. Collier, whose interment took place May 29, 1890. The second was a Mrs. Sonamaker, the first woman to vote after Sheridan was organized as a county.
She was a well-known character,; and there is extinct an old pictureof her casting the first feminine.*
ballot.
J. P. Leverton, pioneer mayor of Sheridan, was the third person] to seek rest in Mount Hope. He was buried in 1890.
Mount Hope cemetery is now the conventional, well-cared for burial ground, wherein the greater portion of Sheridan’s deceased citizens are interred. Yearly memorial exercises are conducted within its quiet domain, and flowers are strewed on the graves of the dead.
A salute is fired for the soldiers of three, wars who are resting there.
But in the other, older burial ground no services are held, and no salute is fired.
Flowers there are, however, wild flowers, and the blossoms that bloom in the gardens
of wealthy citizens whose homes are built over the graves of Sheridan’s first dead.
The Elk cemetery in Mount Hope. It is for all Elk members and their spouse.
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