ALC Bellevue Cemetery-LadyCache
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Owner:
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LadyCache
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Released:
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020
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Origin:
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Nebraska, United States
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In Meat and Eat Gab Fest Telephone Tuesday
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Bellevue Cemetery is one of the oldest in the State of Nebraska. In 1856, four city blocks were set aside as a cemetery. However, it was thought to have been used earlier as unofficial burial plots.
The last of the full-blooded chiefs of the Omaha tribe, Ong-pa-tong-ga, "Big Elk," is buried in this cemetery. Big Elk was much respected by the early Bellevue settlers and his people, the Omaha indians. Logan Fontenelle, his grandson and the man for whom Fontenelle Forest is named, negotiated the sale of the tribal lands to the US government.
Big Elk was originally buried farther down in Bellevue but evidently in the late 1950's, when the land was sold to the soon-to-be-built Bellevue College, his remains were moved to Bellevue Cemetery. His grave sits on the highest point in the cemetery and overlooks the Missouri River. Fourteen of his braves are here too.
A grave of a pioneer child was buried before 1856, with a slab of rock placed over the top of the grave to discourage predators.
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