In Memoriam: Residents of Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery

October 19, 2024 through 2025

Nestled in the Southside of Minneapolis, there is a community of 22,000 residents. Unlike the bustling neighborhood around it, this one is quiet, because everyone there is deceased. This twenty-two-acre necropolis, the oldest existing cemetery in Minneapolis, is known as Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery. However, the name is a misnomer because most people buried there were neither. Instead, the burial ground was mainly used for the average citizen of Minneapolis.

With the passage of time, many of the people buried there no longer exist in