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Wallace W. Brown - Forestvale Cemetery - Helena, Montana

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The cemetery is located near Helena, Lewis & Clark County about two and a half miles north of the city limits.

Forestvale Cemetery

Forestvale Cemetery was established in 1890, with the first burial in September 1890.

The cemetery is located near Helena, Lewis & Clark County about two and a half miles north of the city limits. The Cemetery consists of 148 acres with approximately 16,000 burials and is still active. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Designed by Vermont native Harry Vespasian Wheeler, a civil engineer, the cemetery was envisioned as a "Rural Cemetery". There are curved pathways that meander through cemetery.

Within the Forestvale Cemetery there is possibly only one mausoleum. It is large, built of rock with a plaque on the gable. There are two inserts both inscribed with the same information. Just above the entrance is the Masonic emblem. There appears that originally there were stained glass windows that are now covered over with stones.

Wallace W. Brown
BIRTH: January 24, 1836
BORN: New York, USA
DEATH: December 29, 1894 (age 58 years)

His wife at the time, she later remarried to Charles Whipple Dresser who ran a saloon in the Merchants Hotel he died in 1921.

Charlotte “Lottie” Filkins Dresser
BIRTH:: January 1844
BORN: Redfield, Oswego County, New York, USA
DEATH: August 1918 (age 74 years

The plaques read as follows;

Erected By
Mrs. Wallace W. Brown
In Memory of
Her Beloved Husband

Wallace W. Brown
Born
Jan. 24, 1836
Died
Dec. 29, 1894