My Rememberance of YOU..."Dad's Hill"
The graves on the prairie hold stories of both plow and buffalo. In the American settler experience of Kansas and Oklahoma—those windswept heartlands—burial grounds became anchors for families carving out new lives. Pioneer cemeteries, often small family plots or hilltop sites near homesteads, dotted the landscape.
Loved ones remembered
Native American traditions of the Great Plains
Native American traditions of the Great Plains
, from tribes like the Sioux, Osage, Kaw (in Kansas), and others in Oklahoma territories, emphasize a profound, ongoing connection to ancestors and the land itself. Burial practices varied—earth burials returning the body to Mother Earth, scaffolds or tree platforms allowing natural cycles (wind, animals, elements) to carry the spirit onward and complete the circle of life.
It lies beneath the Rose
Native American traditions of the Great Plains
For Prairie Protestants, shaped by Bible-rooted worldviews, the cemetery embodied core truths: “For dust you are, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). The body returns to the earth God made, but the soul rests in divine hands. Visiting graves reinforced stewardship, humility, and the brevity of life—“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). It was a call to diligence: work hard, love your neighbor, raise your family in faith, because tomorrow isn’t promised. The flowers weren’t just decoration; they symbolized resurrection hope, like lilies in Christian tradition, blooming anew after winter’s death.
Grace Edna Shewey Morse
Birth27 Sep 1887Rock Port, Atchison County, Missouri, USADeath23 May 1979 (aged 91)Norton, Norton County, Kansas, USABurialNorton CemeteryNorton, Norton County, Kansas, USAShow MapGPS-Latitude: 39.8454895, Longitude: -99.888176Memorial ID49760158 · View Source
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49760158/grace-edna-morse.
Ben Morse
Birth8 Nov 1886Norton County, Kansas, USADeath12 Nov 1948 (aged 62)Norton County, Kansas, USABurialNorton CemeteryNorton, Norton County, Kansas, USAShow MapGPS-Latitude: 39.8454895, Longitude: -99.888176Memorial ID49760156 · View S
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49760156/ben-morse
RELATIVES
Doctor Franklin “Doc or Pop” Shewey
Birth30 May 1855Wapello County, Iowa, USADeath13 May 1937 (aged 81)BurialTarkio Home CemeteryTarkio, Atchison County, Missouri, USAMemorial ID96668760 · View Sourc
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96668760/doctor_franklin-shewey
Martha H or L “Luella” Alloway Shewey
Birth1855Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa, USADeath1894 (aged 38–39)BurialTarkio Home CemeteryTarkio, Atchison County, Missouri, USAMemorial ID96668769 · View Source
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96668769/martha_h_or_l-shewey
Co-exist ...
In mixed-heritage families—common in these borderlands where settler and Indigenous histories intertwined through marriage, proximity, and shared survival—graves and flowers become bridges. One side might bring Bible verses and planted peonies; the other, tobacco offerings, prayers to ancestors, or stories of the buffalo cycle. The act of visiting unifies: you stand on the same soil, touch the same stones or earth, feel the prairie wind that carried both voices. It fosters a blended spirituality—ancestral wisdom plus Protestant calls to moral living—reminding everyone that we walk in the footsteps of those before us.
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Frederick Rozean & Delphine “Della” Bennett Rozean
Birth19 Jan 1850GermanyDeath1913 (aged 62–63)BurialNorton CemeteryNorton, Norton County, Kansas, USAMemorial ID49992739 · View Source
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49992739/frederick-rozean
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BirthAug 1854Ohio, USADeathJun 1905 (aged 50)BurialNorton CemeteryNorton, Norton County, Kansas, USAMemorial ID49992738 · View Source
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Children
Mary Josephine “Josie” Rozean Zook
Birth4 Mar 1876La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana, USADeath3 Jan 1966 (aged 89)Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USABurialPark Hill CemeteryVancouver, Clark County, Washington, USAPlotU 65-3Memorial ID
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39587355/mary_josephine-zook
Chester Forrest “Chet” Rozean
Birth7 Nov 1887Nebraska, USADeath20 Jan 1953 (aged 65)Norton County, Kansas, USABurialNorton CemeteryNorton, Norton County, Kansas, USAShow MapGPS-Latitude: 39.845192, Longitude: -99.8881912Memorial ID49992737 · View Source
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49992737/chester_forrest-rozean
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