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Location
Hartland Lutheran Cemetery is east and west of the old Hartland Lutheran Church at 400 West Capital Drive, Hartland. There is also a section known as the first addition behind the church. It is on the north side of Capital Drive going west, next to Highland Cemetery, Section 3, Delafield Township. The cemetery is next to and behind the Lake Country Congregational Church.
The surrounding adjacent cemeteries are St. Charles and Hartland Village. The dividing lines between the Cemeteries are not always apparent.
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History
This cemetery is an active cemetery established in May 1867. The original congregation of German and Danish settlers was organized as St. Martin's Church of Hartland. The first services of the church were held on January 12, 1868. In 1873 the Danish and Germans became separate congregations, but shared the same church until 1910. The Danish Church became the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the German Church became the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1910, the Zion Church sold its interest in the church to the Danish church and then built another church across the road. The Danes built a larger church on the same site. In 1935, the Danish Church changed the name to Our Savior's Lutheran Church. A new church was built north of Hartland Village in 1970. On May 28, 1923, the Hartland Lutheran Cemetery Association was incorporated by the two churches. This association operates the cemetery now known as Hartland Lutheran Cemetery.
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Records
There are cemetery records 1869-date. The earlier dates are from the tombstones and some graves are not known. There is a chart of the oldest part of the cemetery and has taken names and information from the tombstones for those burials before the incorporation of the association in 1923. The plat of the new upper section of the cemetery, referred to as the first addition, is recorded at the Waukesha County Courthouse. The plat only shows the layout of the cemetery, not the names of the people buried there. Records are available for public research. The Association will answer mail requests at no charge.
Contact:
Hartland Cemetery Association
220 West Capital Drive
Hartland, WI 53029
262-367-6366
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
415 West Capitol Drive, Hartland, has records of funerals, circa 1900-date.
Some records are in German.
Our Savior Lutheran Church
W299 N5595 Grace Drive, Hartland, has church records 1867-date, some of the
early records are in Danish and German.
Waukesha County Museum has information on the church and cemeteries.
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Transcriptions
Allen Bakken Beck Bailey Beech Christensen Clausen Culver Finch Fish Fuller Grabowske Hansen Henderson Johnson Kerr Kliest Kummrow Mason McEwen Mills Myers Nielsen Otis Petersen Phelps Rasmussen Sachs Salsich Simonos Snyder Tenney Trettin Vater Warren Weege Weeks Werritt Wilson
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