The collection includes series representing the four collections of cemetery records:
Fairview Mausoleum, Forest Home Cemetery, Old Cemetery Society, and the West
Granville Cemetery. Fairview Mausoleum collection contains records collected by
Robert Felber, Regional Director of the Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society,
regarding the financial issues and subsequent transfer of the Mausoleum to the City
of Milwaukee. This also includes information on disinterment and reinternment of
those buried there. Forest Home Cemetery series includes correspondence, minutes and
financial records of the cemetery.
The Old Cemetery Society series contains correspondence, maps, research and
photographs on cemeteries around the State of Wisconsin by Hattie Reed LaMack and
Dorris M. Berning. Most of those records focus are pre-1971, before the official
creation of the Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society. However, there are a few
post-1971, official Society materials are at the end of this series. The West
Granville Cemetery materials are comprised of printouts from a series of tours
conducted by James R. Moeller that go over the history of a section of the cemetery
and those whoe are buried there.
