This cemetery is located in the northeast corner of the N.W.
16-54-9-W5. The land is registered to the Imperial Baptist Church.
The cemetery was used from the early 1900's to 1957. Wildwood
(formally Junkins) was originally settled by colored people and a
lot of them are buried here. Mr. Jim Pharr owned the property at
the time and his wife maintained the cemetery records. After Mr.
Pharr's death the balance of the quarter was sold to Frank Johnson
and Mrs. Pharr turned over the records to them before she left to
join her daughter in the States.
When the Johnson home buried down the records were destroyed and
the government would no longer allow any burials there.
In 2003 a citizen's group applied to CIP Communities Iniatives
Program for grant money to clean up the Empyrean cemetery. Trees
were brushed away, the area was fenced and steel pipe gate sign was
built and erected by Walter Gatzke. The site has been inactive
since 1957.
Although the persons there have few if any markers, their
memories are preserved in "Etched in Stone" by Lynda Stafford and
Iline Gronlund.
Taken from "Where the River Lobstick Flows
Cache is a lock and lock
