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Forest Hill Cemetery
Tombstone Photos


These photos were generously taken and contributed to these pages by Larry & Linda Kopet!   Please take a moment to thank them for this terrific resource!  Use your back browser button to return to this page. Please note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery.


Bahrke, Herman
Billings, James I. and Anna G.
Billings, John and Lucy
Blackman, Maria
Blum, Charles
Blum, Kate
Bolles, Maria Smith
Bolles, Solomon T.
Bolles, William J.
Bradley, Elizabeth
Bradley, Lyman
Branch, William and Euilly
Cairncross, A.
Cairncross, Dr. J.W. and family
Caroline, Anna Maria
Clark, Asa
Clark, Fredric Ross
Clark, James
Clark, Naomi
Culver, Almera
Culver, Henry L.
Daugherty, Samuel
Davis, Capt. Daniel H.
Davy, Fanny
Dawson jr., Mary H.
Dawson, James
Dawson, Mary
Deakin, Emma and Mary E.
Diemann, family
Fiedler, Lucy
Freeman, Olive M.
Gates, Henry A.
Gates, Mary Ann B.
Gates, Nancy Ursula
Gates, Nora Orlanna
Gates, Sarah S.
Gates, Wm. C.
Goss, Nathaniel
Griffing, Julia Etta B.
Griffing, Richard
Griswold, Lyman
Griswold, Miles
Gruncro, Amy M.
Gudger, John
Hansen, Chris & George
Hansen, Niels & Marie
Heath, Angeline R.
Heath, Austin W.
Heath, Belinda M.
Heath, Ellen
Heath, Ellen M.
Heller, Elizabeth
Hellier, Thomas
Hopper, Wm.
Howell, Martha A.
Iuhri, Maria
Jesse, family
Keeler, Sarah Jane
Kellog, Caroline C.
Knegendorf, Nora
Knight, Eleanor E.
Knight, John
LaChapelle, Abraham
Leverance, William C.
Miller, Maria King
Morgan, Elizabeth
Nicholas, Norman
Nicholas, Olive
North, Thomas and Margaret
Pope, Sarah
Prager, William F. and Salma B
Rhodes, Benjamin
Ringrose, Annie
Schupp, Georg
Scomell, Geo.
Scomell, Mary
Seeley, Grace
Smith, Emma E.
Smith, Henry
Smith, Isaac B. and Jeanette
Smith, Maria Jane
Steele, george W.
Steele, Willis
Steele, Zerua
Steller, Sarah R.
Taylor, Edward Sr.
Taylor, George and Leah
Taylor, Miles and Maragret
Thomas, Capt. William H.
Trumbly, William
Washburn, Efhram
Waterman, J.H.
Waterman, M.N.
Weaver, Martin H. and Adeline
Wegener, Maria D.S.
Wegener, Michael
Weller, Belle
West, Louisa H.
Wheeler, Sally M.
Wheelock, Emma L.
Wheelock, Fatima
Whercaff, Hannah
White, Eliza J.
White, Jos. A.
White, Mary A.
Wildish, Eliza
Wildish, James
Willan, Mary
Wilson, A.C.
Wood, Thomas and James
Yackey, Louis E.
York, Isaac and Ester M.

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WISCONSIN MUNICIPALITIES: Cities Towns, and Villages, often referred to as 'municipalities' in Wisconsin law, are the governmental units that relate most directly to citizens' everyday lives.

TOWNS, like counties, were created by the state to provide basic municipal services. Rooted in New England and New York tradition, town government came to Wisconsin with the settlers, but Wisconsin towns were not like their Eastern counterparts that reflected the existing patterns of local settlement. In Wisconsin, towns are geographical subdivisions of counties. Towns originally served (and for the most part they continue to serve) rural areas. Towns govern those areas of Wisconsin not included in the corporate boundaries of cities and villages.

The difference between "township" and "town" often confuses the public. In Wisconsin, "township' refers to the surveyor's township which was laid out to identify land parcels within a county. Theoretically. a township is a square tract of land, measuring six miles on a side for a total of 36 square miles in the unit. Each township is divided into 36 sections. "Town", as the word is used in Wisconsin, denotes a specific unit of government. It's boundaries may coincide with the surveyor's township or it may look quite different. A Town may include one, parts of or several townships.

CITIES and VILLAGES, often referred to as "incorportated areas", govern territory where population is more concentrated. In general, minimum population for incorporation as a village is 150 residents for an isolated village and 2,500 for a metropolitan village located in a more densely settled area. For cities, the minimums are 1,000 and 5,000 respectively. As cities and villages are incorporated, they are carved out of the town territory and become independent units no longer subject to the town's control. The remainder of the town may take on a 'Swiss cheese" configuration as its area is reduced.

[Information above taken from "State of Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-1998"]

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ProjectCopyright Notice: These generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery. The source for many of the cemetery names and placenames on these pages come from Cemetery Locations in Wisconsin, 3rd edition, compiled by Linda M. Herrick and Wendy K. Uncapher. The book is published by Origins at 4327 Milton Ave. Janesville, WI 53546. All files on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specific permission from Tina Vickery [mailto:tsvickery@gmail.com] and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissable to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY.

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