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The earliest marked grave in Zimmerman Cemetery, that of Georchim Wedig, dates to 1852. In 1863, Wedig's daughter Katherine married John Gonzales, who had come to Indianola in 1858 with Joseph Mendez as a caretaker for a shipload of camels imported by the U.S. Army as part of an experiment in frontier transportation. Gonzales and Mendez, both natives of Spain, are buried there. The burial ground served the communities of Magnolia Beach and Indianola and takes its name from the family of August Zimmerman, a son-in-law of Joseph Mendez.
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