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THE BEACON
October 2018
Parklike Cemetery is Home to Majestic Trees and Flowers
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remember the individuals who
spent a lifetime laughing and
arguing, crying and celebrat-
ing.
Pete Nocks is a board
member with the River View
Cemetery Association and a
volunteer with Find-A-Grave
and is dedicated to photo-
graphing many of the 13,600
grave sites on the property.
While researching burial per-
mits and scanning old news-
paper articles, he sometimes
comes across information that
offers a glimpse into the very
human stories beyond the
stone markers.
Mr. Nocks says, “There’s a
woman back down in Sec-
tion Q that I did a little bit of
research on: she was actually
burnt.
She went up on a boat - she
was married to someone; she
was a teenager, really, and she
had a child, but she was with
two men (not her husband), on
the boat. She was supposed to
be a woman of ill repute. Well,
she was actually having feel-
ings for this other guy and not
the man she was supposed to
have been with. Well, the guy
went up and threw gas on her
- set her on fire! She jumped
in the river, swam to shore, but
she died. In the article, it said
he, the one who threw the gas,
was never charged, but the
other guy that was in the boat,
well, they found him in the
river a couple of weeks later.
That first guy, well, he must
have killed him, too. I think it
was in the ‘30s if I’m not mis-
taken. Oh, there are all kinds
of stories. It’s interesting, but
it’s really sad.”
No matter how tragic or
noble their lives might have
been, those laid to rest in the
serenity and beauty of River
View are integral to the his-
tory of what is now Dearborn
County. A soothing place with
majestic trees and flowering
shrubs, the park-like cemetery
is located just north of SR56, a
short distance from the city of
Aurora. Brochures are located
inside the entrance gate, detail-
ing the varieties of trees and
plants, with a map illustrating
the sections of the grounds.
Visitors are encouraged to
look for a huge, pock-marked
boulder from Gettysburg, and
two lions, one resting and one
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Art Wenzel and Pete Nocks
look over the original plat of
the River View Cemetery.
Walking through the grounds is a lesson in the history of
Aurora and the surrounding area, one