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Help sought to clean Millersburg cemetery

 

May 3, 2023



Linn County commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker have been asked to help volunteers clean the historic Miller Cemetery in Millersburg, as well as other old cemeteries in the county.

Harrisburg resident Tim Walter told the board Tuesday morning, April 25, that his father and other family members are buried at the cemetery, which was founded in 1850 and has not been maintained. As a result, it requires brush removal and mowing.

Sprenger said that this was not uncommon, as the board members who serve many of the state’s small historical cemeteries were senior citizen...



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