NRHP: Crossroads Grave Site, WCTG
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Crossroads Grave Site; WCTG
NRHP Reference #: 82004920
NRHP Listing Date: 19820811
Location
NW of Red Cloud, Red Cloud vicinity, Webster County, Nebraska
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Summary
Located near Red Cloud, this site is known locally as the "suicide corner," the site of the original burial place of Francis Sadliek, one of the first Bohemian settlers in Webster County. The significance is indicated in a letter Willa Cather wrote to Carrie Miner Sherwood (January 27, 1934), where Cather indicated "that if she were to write anything at all, it would have had to be My Antonia because of the many times she had heard the story of the Sadilek suicide when she first came out to Nebraska." Because of this, the site has retained considerable importance locally.
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