- Name: Cannon Falls Community Cemetery
- Location: 44.51000, -92.89151
- Date Visited: May 15, 2022
Cannon Falls Community Cemetery is a fairly large graveyard with over 4,000 graves, the oldest of which is from 1849. It is adjacent to St. Pius V Catholic Church Cemetery and its 700+ graves and an 1864 start date.
The most famous grave in the Community Cemetery is that of Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General William Colvill, Jr. (1830-1905), who lead the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. He later became a newspaper publisher, and later as Minnesota Attorney General.
The grave site of Colvill and his family is quite impressive, and was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge in 1905. Try to imagine what it took to get a guy from Washington, D.C. to very rural Cannon Falls, MN in the age before planes and automobiles.
Then there was this one of one of our Dough-boys from WWI and a fine looking young man, Private Albin N. Mattson, 136 Infantry, Company “D”, Fort Dix, New Jersey. He died way too young at the age of 26.
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