 The Fort Yates Post Cemetery was disestablished over 100 years ago with those buried there being reinterred in 1908 (some even before that date) except for Sitting Bull who was reinterred in 1953.
The cemetery was located in the area of what is now the Sitting Bull College within Mniconju circle off of Tatanka Iyotaka Drive in Fort Yates.
Group members of the Facebook Group "Standing Rock Genealogy" were presented by members Sallie and Emily, with some original documents showing much information on the 80 plus individuals who were buried there at the time of the disestablishment. Within those documents it was recorded (as it was in other documents) that the disinterments included 73 to the Keokuk National Cemetery, 9 to the Catholic Cemetery Fort Yates; 2 to the Congregational Cemetery Fort Yates; and 1 to the Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, National Cemetery (Goddard, Chase E.).
We've provided below those documents and the FindAGrave links for the burials along with an index in the hopes of reducing the time involved in the research by those with interest.
In addition to creating the index with links to original documents, there is also a link on "some" of the individual names which will take the researcher to a biography of some type and, where applicable, the current burial site of an individual.
Sheet 1 Original Document Sheet 2 Original Document U.S., Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921 - National Archives and Records Administration Sheet 3 Original Document Sheet 4 Original Document U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960 FindAGrave Fort Yates Post Cemetery (Defunct) FindAGrave Keokuk National Cemetery |
