Tombstone inscriptions copied between 1970 and 1981 by Wayne and Alta Guyant in cemeteries in seventeen Wisconsin counties, and clipped newspaper obituaries and other related items. The records represent every known cemetery in Florence, Langlade, Portage, Waupaca, and Waushara counties and many in Adams, Barron, Forest, Green Lake, Juneau, Lincoln, Marquette, Oneida, Outagamie, Shawano, Winnebago, and Wood counties. Also present are family history materials on the Axtell, Dent, Guyant, and Rogers families. Barron County records are in paper form; all the rest are on microfilm produced by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1981.
A combined index exists for Portage, Waupaca, and Waushara counties; names are grouped by the initial letter of the surname and thereunder are listed by cemetery. Following this index are the cemetery records grouped by county and usually by township. Each township section lists the cemeteries in that township and the burial dates covered in each, gives the location and a condition statement for each cemetery, and includes a township plat map with the cemeteries marked.
Each cemetery is then generally represented by (1) an alphabetical index to the names of those buried in the cemetery, (2) the transcribed inscriptions in order by grave location, and the date the transcribing was completed, (3) a list of veterans buried in the cemetery with their military unit indicated, (4) an index to maiden names of women there, (5) an index to the obituaries on the film, (6) newsclippings of obituaries, and (7) occasional other clippings or related information. Also present is a record of plot sales for Meadow Creek Cemetery in Barron County.
Not all people are represented by an obituary and occasionally an obituary may be present for someone without a tombstone transcription. The index entries for the inscriptions include an O before the name when an obituary is also present; the index entries for the obituaries include an X before the name when an inscription is also present or the word “New” if the burial took place after the transcribing of tombstone inscriptions was completed. A two-page introduction by the Guyants is at the front of Reel 1.
Wisconsin Historical Society Reel Number and Genealogical Society of Utah Reel Number
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WHS Reel Number
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GSU Reel number
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| 1 |
1306428 |
| 2 |
1306429 |
| 3 |
1306430 |
| 4 |
1306431 |
| 5 |
1306432 |
| 6 |
1306433 |
| 7 |
1306434 |
| 8 |
1306435 |
| 9 |
1306436 |
| 10 |
1306437 |
| 11 |
1306438 |
| 12 |
1306439 |
| 13 and 14 |
1306440 |
| 14 |
1306441 |
