The Agnes Flood of 1972 and its impact on the Cemetery
Unimaginable grief as our loved ones were washed and the topography forever changed.
An entire section of the historic Forty Fort Cemetery was washed away and about 2,000 caskets were uprooted from their graves, leaving body parts on back porches, roofs and basement floors. Many were lost to never return to their final resting places, very few were found and reinterned. Below find information to assist you in the search from those whom you may have lost.
List of those reinterned post flood
The 1,410 burials which were recovered were reinterred in individual graves at the Memorial Shrine Cemetery. Of these, 36 were identified by inscriptions or plates on caskets or vaults. A number of these were later removed to other cemeteries and others were relocated within Memorial Shrine Cemetery. The burials so identified were those of:
- Andrews, Sally M.
- *Bynon, Mamie
- *Carson, Robert
- Case, Josephine L.
- Coutts, John R.
- Crouse, Frederick, Jr.
- Delait, Margaret A.
- *Fisher, Dwight K.
- *Fisher, Mignonette D.
- Gracy, Leonard Rider
- Hannigan, Mabel D.
- Hughes, Gailord
- Hughes, Sarah
- *Jensen, Ross Thorwald
- Jones, Mabelle
- Kingsbury, Lloyd
- Lloyd, Viola
- **Long, Elizabeth
- **Miller, Marion F.
- O'Boyle, James Cobleigh
- **Pritchard, Mary Jane
- Reese, Elizabeth
- Reese, Evan
- *Roat, Harry C., Sr
- Roberts, Abbye
- **SchIlingman, Catherine
- Schweitzer, Edgar
- Simpson, Emma R.
- Slocum, Louise
- Stephens, Richard H.
- Stratton, Albert J.
- *Taylor, Edith May
- *Taylor, George R.
- Tisdel, Myrtle
- * Wood, Florence Newell
- Wright, Louise
*Removed to another cemetery
**Relocated to Memorial Shrine Cemetery
Memorial for those reinterned at the Memorial Shrine Cemetery.