REED CEMETERY
Fort Yates Protestant Cemetery
New Reed Cemetery

The original Reed Cemetery was also called the American Missionary Association Cemetery and also the Fort Yates Protestant Cemetery which today is referred to as the Old Reed Cemetery. The present location was established in 1963 as a result of anticipated flooding from Oahe Dam. The Army Corps of Engineers moved all of the graves to what is today the Reed Cemetery or the New Reed Cemetery.




Paraphrased from The Cemeteries of Sioux County North Dakota (CSCND): The earliest burial reported in the Old Reed Cemetery was in 1892 and the latest in 1960. 308 graves were located, staked, and numbered. No. 288 was moved before the Army Corps started moving the graves. Of the 307, the Corps could only identify 213. No. 217 (Jack T. Ramey) was moved to Linton Cemetery. Numbers 271 through 274 (Stewart Family) [editor: could not find] were moved to McLaughlin Protestant Cemetery in South Dakota. The remainder were moved to the new Reed Cemetery.

The new cemetery is also called Fort Yates Protestant Cemetery. The cemetery is usually mowed in early summer although individual plots are mowed more often. From the intersection of 92nd Street and 13th Avenue in Fort Yates, go south on 13th Avenue for 1 mile, go west on unnamed road. Cemetery is on the south side of the unnamed road.

For no-charge lookups in the CSCND, contact Sioux County Coordinator - Mike Peterson

Transcriptions At FindAGrave.com