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Neillsville Municipal Cemetery

Neillsville Municipal Cemetery

Mailing address: 118 W. Fifth Street, 715-743-7071

Physical address: 811 E. 15th Street

Cemetery Sexton/Parks Director - Regan Barth  715-743-7071 – and various part-time employees on a seasonal and as-needed basis.

The cemetery consists of 34.5 acres of former rolling farmland.  Currently, the platted area encompasses 19.2 acres.  The first recorded burials pre-date both the cemetery platting and the City of Neillsville’s incorporation in 1882.  As the cemetery grew from the original site in 1870, plots were added in 1890, 1899, 1910, 1927, and 1969, creating a very pleasant pastoral view of the wildlife that passes through.  The western end of the cemetery (original plat), with its canopy of big oaks, large granite headstones, mausoleum, and veterans’ graves, provides a step back into the City of Neillsville’s history, with many of the founding families represented.

The Cemetery Sexton provides for the overall operation of the cemetery; sale of grave lots; opening and closing of graves (regular and cremations); mowing lawn; weed-whipping around headstones; snow removal; maintenance and repair of cemetery roads, signs, buildings and structures, machinery and equipment; supervises part-time personnel; develops the department budget proposal for the next fiscal year, while controlling expenditures of the current fiscal year budget; assists family members doing genealogy research and performs the duties of City Forester and Parks Director.