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WILLICKSEN CEMETERY
Section 16 Norway Township
The Ole Willicksen Cemetery is located 1/2 mile east of Thor in section
16, Norway Township. It was by Ole W.Willicksen that the first land was
broken in 1869 and the first grain sown in 1870. It was three acres of
this land that O. W. Willicksen gave to Thor for a cemetery. Ole and his
wife, Martha (Oleson) were the parents of five children--Wilhelmina I.
(Minnie), Enger C., Jennie, William W., Alena G., and Adolph O. Ole and
Martha were buried here and in 1925 were moved to Union Cemetery in
Humboldt.
It has been said that
people of all walks of life are buried here--nobility, the homeless and
tramps. With the exception of a little corner, the cemetery has reverted
back to crops. Possibly the monuments are buried as they are all gone
but for one loner. However, the inscription is unreadable. If wooden
crosses or markers were used they were destroyed by prairie fires or
felled by the horse-drawn mowers.
These unknown graves, as in
many cemeteries, can be anyone's guess; but our Maker has the records.