Gypsum Hill Cemetery

March 19, 1870, a number of people voluntarily united to form the Gypsum Hill Cemetery Association with D. W. Anderson, A. H. Thompson, A.C. Spilman, R.H. Diehl, and Jacob DeWitt, the five directors serving for one year. The capital stock was $2,000 and the number of shared limited to 200 at $10 per share. Two days later papers were filed with the Secretary of State in Topeka. In May, twenty acres of land east of the city and south of Iron Avenue, known as Gypsum Hill, were purchased from Robert and Elizabeth Anderson at $20 an acre and A.C. Spilman was employed to survey and lay out the lots.

A complete record can be found in the Register of Deeds Office at the County Court House.

City on the Move by Ruby Phillips Bramwell, 1969