Hazelton Cemetery
The Hazelton Cemetery was organized near the same time the city of Hazelton was platted, about 1884. It is located NENE 15-34-10. The cemetery was originally organized by Hazelton and Cedar Townships, and was tax-supported. Blaine Township in Harper County was later brought into the association. This cemetery, known also as Rose Hill Cemetery, has the distinction of being laid out in the form of a wagon wheel. A circular drive forms the rim of the wheel; the spokes are formed by drives leading to the center or hub of the wheel. Burials within this pattern are adjusted to the angles of the wheel; those out- side the wheel are in the traditional east-west pattern. About 1935-36, a dozen or more graves were moved from the Corwin Cemetery, located northeast of Corwin on the Leo Otis Shroyer farm, into Hazelton Cemetery. Old stones indicate burials were first made in Hazelton Cemetery in 1884.
(Information from pages 28-29 of Chosen Land - A History of Barber County, Kansas ©1980)

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