Volcik Name Study - Interments

¹ The Machu Cemetery was originally located about five and one-half miles southeast of Granger, near the home of Pavel and Rozina (Trlica) Machu. Construction of the Laneport Dam was begun in 1973. The original Machu Cemetery would have been subject to flooding after the dam was built, so the land was condemned by the United States government on 10 July 1975 and the land had to be surrendered on or before 1 November 1975. The United States Army Corps of Engineers donated a three acre tract of land to the Machu Cemetery Association on which to relocate the graves from the original cemetery. The Machu Cemetery is on the southwest corner of the tract of land, and is bordered on the north by the Beard Cemetery, and on the east by the Allison and Friendship Cemeteries, which were also moved by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers because of the construction of the dam. The tract is enclosed with a chain-link fence and has a driveway going east to west between the Beard and the Machu Cemeteries and has a turn-around on the east end of the driveway. An iron sign, over the gate, reads "BEARD MACHU ALLISON "OLD FRIENDSHIP" CEMETERY". Moving the graves from the original cemetery to the new location began on 14 May 1976 and was completed on 19 May 1976. Rededication ceremonies were held on 29 May 1977, with approximately 75-80 people present. The Machu Cemetery contains nine hundred burial plots. More than two hundred identified graves, with tombstones, and sixty graves of unknown persons occupy the land at this date. Small markers, with the word "Unknown" were placed on the sites of the unknown graves by the Corps of Engineers. The Machu Cemetery consists of two parts: the section that is in the southwest section of the cemetery is designated primarily for descendents of Pavel and Rozina Machu, and for those who were interred in the original cemetery. The balance of the cemetery is designated for burials after 1976, of for use by people who are not necessarily members of the immediate family.