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History of the Wilcox / Willcox / Dolsen Cemetery

A former Re-enactor named Pat Caza rented a stable here for her horses. She apparently at that time found a tombstone in her "garden". No further information is known at the moment on where Pat had her garden at that time.

Apparently Allen Dolsen's mother has said there had been a considerable number of stones in her time of memory at this location. Historian Jim Gilbert mentions remembering some monuments there in his childhood as well. He remembers them being closer to the trees on the NE side near some evergreen trees, but of course over that many years monuments tend to "Wonder around". It is possible though that some had already been moved there even at that time.

Apparently some folks have referred to this as the "Dolsen" Cemetery ... but that name is rather confusing as it makes FOUR Dolsen cemetery sites. The Willcox (? Wilcox ?) name seems more appropriate for this Cemetery as that seems to have been Willcox property in the early times.

If you stand directly between the Tecumseh Parkway flag and the sign along the road there you are directly opposite the likely cemetery location as shown by dowsing. If you walk across the road from there, through the ditch and up on the flat ground, if you proceed about three meters you are very close to the middle of what seems to show as the cemetery at that point.

former site of unidentified cemetery
Lot 18 Con. 4 (Raleigh)
SW corner of Bloomfield Road & River Road
[Alan D & Pat C]
now no known tombstones