Mill Creek Cemetery

04/04/2026

What is perpetual care? Why can't we save deteriorating marble headstones?

03/24/2026

Many of these Adsits are buried in the Mill Creek Cemetery.

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06/23/2025

While out at the cemetery this past weekend to paint the shed, I noticed this little bulldozer, sitting across from the NW corner of the cemetery. (We refer to this area as, "the old part.") The cemetery sits above Mill Creek and even though the creek has changed course over the years, and no longer runs right next to the cemetery, the bank here is very steep. I've often thought the only thing holding that bank in place is the huge tree you see in the second picture. And look how close that grave is to the tree and bank! Thanks to the landowners next to the cemetery (and that little bulldozer) the bank is being fortified.

Many thanks to the Gerner family. It's a good tale of recycling and a "win-win" for their family and our cemetery. They are tearing out an old building, it's concrete foundation and surrounding concrete pad. I appreciate where they are placing it.

--Post by Patricia Adsit Kreger, daughter of Ramona Mohrmann Adsit. ❤️

06/21/2025

The cemetery shed received a fresh coat of paint!Thanks to: Trinda N Ed Wells for helping purchase the paint, Elaine Dosch and Gail Dosch for supplying ladders and Pat and Chris Kreger for labor.

06/17/2025

The peonies were particularly lovely this weekend. I checked out my dad's new peony and was pleased to see these pale blooms. It's a Sarah Bernhardt, a variety that was first cultivated in 1906 by Victor Limoine, he named it after a beautiful French actress of the time.

There's also some peonies that we divided in May during the work day, you might notice some are without flowers, having a bit more of a tough time in transplanting but I do think they'll all be doing better next year and we'll see many of them with more beautiful flowers. I really love the timelessness of these flowers, I've read some can live 100 years or more- some of our grandparents likely planted these and here we continue to care for them. I hope you all can come out to see these in bloom soon.

~post by Kathy Adsit (daughter of Walter Adsit)

06/14/2025

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06/14/2025

Another beautiful day at the cemetery today, cleaning family monuments. All the peonies are in full bloom and roses just starting.

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05/15/2025

05/10/2025

The Mill Creek Cemetery work crew this morning. Many peonies were split and planted into the oldest part of the cemetery under Ed Well's guidance and general tidying-up on a glorious spring day, perfect weather to be outdoors!

05/10/2025

The Mill Creek Cemetery Family at today's annual meeting. Very well-attended and upbeat meeting: our bank balance is up and we added another $1100 today alone thanks to this group of smiling faces!

(More photos to come from work at the cemetery this morning!)

L-R Standing: Elaine Dosch and husband Gail, Kathy Adsit and husband Chris Krago, Chuck Sorensen and wife Valerie, DeAnne Kepler, Patricia Adsit Kreger and DeAnne's husband Fred Kepler, Rosie Kepler Hendricks, Trinda Wells, Julie Kepler Burnham and Trinda's husband Ed Wells. Seated in front: Virginia Kenyon Wiedenfeld and her son Vince Wiedenfled.

05/05/2025

John Cook (1844-1932), 2nd from the right in the front and seated in this photo, is buried in the Mill Creek Cemetery and is one of several Civil War vets in the cemetery.

Civil War veterans at Tommie Edwards 100th birthday party, Richland County, Wisconsin, 1916.

left to right, front (4): 1. Watt, James H. (1838-1922); 2. Edwards, Thomas Jefferson ‘Tommy’ (1816-1921); 3. Cook, John (1844-1932); 4. Benn, Jacob ‘Jake’ (1847-1930);

middle row (7): 1. James, David Goodrich (1843-1921); 2. Barber, Lafayette ‘Lafe’ (1848-1929); 3.Allison, William ‘Omer’ (1844-1927); 4. unidentified; 5. Long, Lewis ‘Lew’ (1838-1922); 6. unidentified; 7. unidentified;

back (3): 1. Loveless, John Alfred (1834-1924); 2. Gault, Samuel D. ‘Sam’ (1845-1927); 3. Pier, William Henry (1842-1924);

https://cdm16698.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/rchr/id/21374/rec/1