MEMORIES by Kenneth Rigel
Greenwood Irving Cemetery cemetery was located just across the Blue River bridge, east of Irving.(Irving was 5 miles southeast of Blue Rapids) When the Tuttle Creek Dam came in, the cemetery was moved to the site south of Blue Rapids, about 1 1/2 miles.

A note on this move: In the early days, I remember a old gent that had a creamery. He had no family as I know of but he was good to the kids and seemed to have extra pennies that would be given to those who really didn't have anything when they brought their eggs, butter or cream in to his store. He died in a fire, in Irving, and since he had nothing, nor any family, the county buried him in the Irving cemetery, at the Northwest corner, next to the river. A little marker was at his grave site. During this move, to the Greenwood Cemetery, he was lost. A year ago last May, Harold Green and I looked everywhere for his marker and it just isn't there. I'm sure a lot of people are lost, especially through time. However, I feel that because of his status (poor, no family, no MONEY) he was just "forgotten." His name was John Hoyt. His last name could have been spelled "Hoytt." Harold Green is a friend I went to school with during the first 8 years. He knows more about Irving than I.

Another item I've been asking about is a Cemetery that was on the west (and a little north) of Blue Rapids. As a kid, I remembered it as a cemetery for the Black Folks, back in the early, early days. It was lost when the Tuttle Creek Dam (Reservoir, the government said it was) was in the making. There was a dike built to keep the water out of Blue Rapids. The dike was built about where the cemetery was. Larry Nugent, my nephew, remembers it. His grand dad had done maintenance at the site in the later 40's.Sure strange how something like this can become lost through time. The city of Blue Rapids books doesn't show this cemetery as ever existed.