Elwood Cemetery
Gosper County, Nebraska

If you live near this cemetery or plan to visit it anytime, please, consider photographing some, or all, of the gravestones and contributing them for use on this page. Or if you already have one or more photographs of stones in this cemetery I would be most happy to use them on this page. Write to Leona at if you would like to contribute photos for this or any Gosper County cemetery.

Gravestone photos on this page contributed by:
Barbara Burwell,

• Chambers
  • Alvida, wife of M E, May 14, 1879-Feb 5, 1918
  • John B., Nebraska, BGLR 1 CL 339 MG BN 88 DIV, World War I, March 4, 1894-April 29, 1959
  • Gerald Eugene, Dec 1, 1901-Feb 16, 1946
  • Mother, Lydia A, 1858-1897, OES and Father, Burton L., 1855-1907, Mason
  • Martin E., Nov 11, 1879-May 10, 1956
  • Mary B., beloved wife of J E, Nov 10, 1852-July 6, 1900 and Jonas E., 1848-1921
  • Wm., 1849-1910 and Ann, his wife, 1849-1922
• Clark
  • Anna R., Sept 29, 1885-Feb 22, 1969 and Dr. George A., Sept 10, 1879-Apr 30, 1956
  • Little Earl, son of L & J, died May 3, 1890, aged __ years __ months, 6 days
  • Vesta, wife of Joel, died Jan 17, 1901, aged 71 yrs, 3 mo (Whole stone)
  • Plot Monument
    • Bonnie V. [21 Aug 1914-14 Sep 2005]
    • Infant of Richard & Bonnie [no dates]
    • Richard R., Aug 10, 1912-Mar 26, 1980
  • Plot Monument
    • Cloyd E., August 7, 1901-August 28, 1973
    • Kendall Hanson, Nebraska, SP 4 CO A 16 INF 1 INF DIV, Vietnam BSM & OLC-PH
      • BSM = Bronze Star Medal; OLC = Oak Leaf Cluster - This was a small oak leaf was a device issued to indicate a second award of a previous medal, such as the Purple Heart (PH) or the BSM
    • Lucille R., September 4, 1915-April 15, 1982
• Coder, Greta A. (Search) Wray Chambers, Mother of John Gilbert Wray, Dec 24, 1904-[Sep 25, 1997], DAR
• Cook, Alma Josephine, Feb 17-Mar 3, 1914

• Wray, John G., Nebraska, SGT 5 RANGER INF CO (ABN), Korea PH [Purple Heart], March 21, 1929-June 5, 1951, Airborne Rangers 5TH CO