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The land containing Proctor Cemetery was once part of a farm owned by the pioneer Larkin Gyger family. The first person buried there was W.B. Long (1817-1875), a Methodist minister and neighbor of the Gyger family. As the small town of Proctor grew with the arrival of the railroad in the 1890s, the site gradually became a community graveyard. Fifty-seven graves date from the nineteenth century, and nine Civil War veterans are also buried there. A cemetery association organized in 1940 maintains the historic burial ground.
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