Fairview Cemetery

In 1878 - 1879 there was a diptheria epidemic in the fall and spring. There was no cemetery so the dead were buried near their homes.

On May 3, 1880, a man by the name of Anderson came through Cambridge in a covered wagon. He stopped at the W.E. Slater home out west of Cambridge. He became ill and soon died. He was buried on the hill north of the house and this was the first burial in what is now Fairview Cemetery. His grave is near the center of the cemetery. Mr. Applejack set out the 500 cedar trees planted around the cemetery in 1936.