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Prairie Cemetery

According to the 1969 record, this is an old abandoned cemetery located about 1/4 mile from the Prescott city limits near the railroad track toward Gurdon. It stated that 20 or 25 people were buried here. It is on property owned in 2005 by David Hildebrand and can be accessed from a road that follows the eastern right-of-way of the railroad off the Wildcat Road. It is in a pasture behind a locked gate. Permission would be needed to visit the cemetery.

Name	Birth	Death	Comments
McLelland, Hannah Dewoody	12/17/1827	11/26/1896
Steele, Hulda I.	01/11/1878		Wife of L. C. Steele; age 21 years, 7 months, 3 days
Steele, C. E.	09/20/1876	01/29/1896

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Since 1997, Jery and Jeanie McKelvy have conducted a periodic canvas of each cemetery in the county and use additional resources to keep the listings current.