Simmons-Saltillo Cemetery

04/16/2022

Our annual meeting will be held at 1:30 pm, Sunday May 29th (Memorial Day weekend) for the Simmons-Saltillo Cemetery on Rokeby Rd. We will announce the indoor venue via email prior to the meeting.
In an effort to be more efficient and cost effective, we are sending out our annual meeting notice via email. Please share your email with us at [email protected]

05/05/2020

Our annual meeting will be held on Sunday, May 24th, 2020 at 2:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the Roper and Sons Chapel on 40th and Yankee Hill Rd. If we have to reschedule or change the venue due to State and local rules for the Covid-19 virus, we will update you.
In an effort to be more efficient and cost effective, we are sending out an annual meeting notice via email. Please share your email with us at [email protected]

08/24/2019

04/18/2019

Our annual meeting will be held on Memorial Day at 10:00 am (Monday May 27th, 2019). Located at the Simmons-Saltillo Cemetery on Rokeby Rd. If weather presents a problem, we will announce an indoor alternative via email prior to the meeting.
In an effort to be more efficient and cost effective, we are sending out an annual meeting notice via email. Please share your email with us at [email protected]

04/24/2017

Our annual meeting will be held at 10:00 am, Monday May 29th (Memorial Day) at the Simmons-Saltillo Cemetery on Rokeby Rd. If the weather presents a problem, we will announce an indoor alternative via email prior to the meeting.
In an effort to be more efficient and cost effective, we are sending out an annual meeting notice via email. Please share your email with us at [email protected]

03/25/2017

Remember Memorial Day is May 29th! Our annual Members' Meeting will be that day.

11/05/2016

Year-end workday on November 12th starting at 9am. Join us in keeping out cemetery beautiful.

10/10/2016

One of our members passed away. Priscilla (Eis) Sterns passed away on July 27th, 2016.

Read Priscilla Sterns's obituary/death notice, funeral and memorial service information. View images and share memories/condolences for Priscilla Sterns from Lincoln, .

09/28/2016

The Fall Workday was an opportunity for our members to get together and shape the way the cemetery looks. The grass got mowed and we took out many of the volunteer trees. Thanks to everyone that had time to join us!

05/30/2016

We had an excellent day and a successful meeting of the membership today at the Simmons Saltillo Cemetery! Thank you for all those who joined us for our 130th year since our first family member was laid to rest.. Hopefully more of you can join us next year. As the city of Lincoln grows, we need more of our family to come and join us to protect what was placed here in our protection.

05/13/2016

As a reminder, November 9th this year is our 395th year in America. We should really be doing TWO thanksgivings. One during the national holiday and the other when our ancestor [Moses Simmons (Symonson)] first came to this beautiful land. He came across on the Fortune which was the second English ship destined for Plymouth Colony in the New World, one year after the voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. They arrived on November 9th, 1621. Plymouth Colony was the first colony made of families in America. And like Moses, many of the colonists were escaping religious persecution.

So, lets be sure to celebrate that this year.

Henry Simmons and his wife Catherine Walker moved to Nebraska City in 1862 and then to Lancaster county In March, 1863, when the county numbered only a dozen or so voters. So, we celebrate 154 years in Nebraska this year.

The reason the family cemetery is named Simmons-Saltillo is because Saltillo was the location of the oldest post office west of the Missouri river on the old Pike’s peak trail.

All this is to say, please help us keep our proud heritage alive for our generation and our children's. Join us at the cemetery for our Memorial Day meeting, if you can. We would love to have your support as we get ready for Lincoln to reach our side of Rokeby road in about a year.