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Kendall Graveyard got start in 1903
This is the story of how the graveyard in old Kendall was started back in 1903 on the hill about a
third of a mile east of what was then main street in today's ghost town in the North Moccasins.
There are over 100 people buried in it.
The story is told by 99-year-old Joe Montgomery who lived in Kendall from 1902 to 1914 and
"still thinks of it as home." He opened the bar and gambling at the old Shaules Hotel, and later
started the Wedge and ran it for many years.
Here is his story on the cemetery that still may be seen:
I was having a late breakfast in the Shaules Hotel just before Christmas in 1903 when the
waitress brought a man in to me and said, "His little baby had died. They like Kendall and his
wife wants to bury it here, but there is no graveyard." I took him up on the hill behind the hotel
and found a beautiful spot where we could see east as far as Cone Butte. We agreed it was the
place, but he worried about who owned the land. I said, "It's just government land and nobody
will ever claim it," so we buried the baby there and there are over a hundred people in that
cemetery now, including "old Hutch" who is without a doubt one of the most famous of all
Western Americans.
The land around the cemetery was homesteaded later, but the government held out about five
acres, which is still government land and the cemetery.
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Object Description
| Title | Kendall Graveyard |
| Creator | Newspaper article |
| Description | This is the story of how the graveyard in old Kendall was started back in 1903 on the hill about a third of a mile east of what was then main street in today's ghost town in the North Moccasins. There are over 100 people buried in it |
| Physical format | Newspaper article |
| Subject | Kendall, Montana |
| Contributed by | Lewistown Public Library, Lewistown, Montana. |
| Coverage-geography | Kendall, Montana |
| Digital collection | SC 1.11 Kendall graveyard |
| Rights information | No copyright restrictions |
| Full text of this item | Kendall Graveyard got start in 1903 This is the story of how the graveyard in old Kendall was started back in 1903 on the hill about a third of a mile east of what was then main street in today's ghost town in the North Moccasins. There are over 100 people buried in it. The story is told by 99-year-old Joe Montgomery who lived in Kendall from 1902 to 1914 and "still thinks of it as home." He opened the bar and gambling at the old Shaules Hotel, and later started the Wedge and ran it for many years. Here is his story on the cemetery that still may be seen : I was having a late breakfast in the Shaules Hotel just before Christmas in 1903 when the waitress brought a man in to me and said, "His little baby had died. They like Kendall and his wife wants to bury it here, but there is no graveyard." I took him up on the hill behind the hotel and found a beautiful spot where we could see east as far as Cone Butte. We agreed it was the place, but he worried about who owned the land. I said, "It's just government land and nobody will ever claim it" so we buried the baby there and there are over a hundred people in that cemetery now, including "old Hutch" who is without a doubt one of the most famous of all Western Americans. The land around the cemetery was home¬steaded later, but the government held out about five acres, which is still government land and the cemetery. |
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| Title | Kendall Graveyard 1 |
| Full text of this item | Kendall Graveyard got start in 1903 This is the story of how the graveyard in old Kendall was started back in 1903 on the hill about a third of a mile east of what was then main street in today's ghost town in the North Moccasins. There are over 100 people buried in it. The story is told by 99-year-old Joe Montgomery who lived in Kendall from 1902 to 1914 and "still thinks of it as home." He opened the bar and gambling at the old Shaules Hotel, and later started the Wedge and ran it for many years. Here is his story on the cemetery that still may be seen: I was having a late breakfast in the Shaules Hotel just before Christmas in 1903 when the waitress brought a man in to me and said, "His little baby had died. They like Kendall and his wife wants to bury it here, but there is no graveyard." I took him up on the hill behind the hotel and found a beautiful spot where we could see east as far as Cone Butte. We agreed it was the place, but he worried about who owned the land. I said, "It's just government land and nobody will ever claim it" so we buried the baby there and there are over a hundred people in that cemetery now, including "old Hutch" who is without a doubt one of the most famous of all Western Americans. The land around the cemetery was homesteaded later, but the government held out about five acres, which is still government land and the cemetery. :r< I, I( |