Harrington Cemetery

Harrington Cemetery is located on the north side of 111th South at 215th West. There is a fence surrounding the cemetery. There are a few lots available in Harrington Cemetery. 

The Harrington cemetery is located three miles east of Viola on the Clearwater to Viola Road. Elisha Rogers Harrington moved to Sedgwick County and took a prairie grass claim west of Clearwater in November 1873. The legal description of this 160-acre claim is as follows: Sec.30 SW1/4 29-2 West.

He donated an acre of the southwest corner of his land to be used as the Harrington cemetery. Both Harrington, who died December 20, 1903 (according to the date on the stone, Mrs. Don (Erma) Harrington relates) and a wife, the last of three, who preceded him in death on October 15, 1871, were among the first buried in the cemetery. A cousin by the name of Nighswonger was buried there in 1885.

Six of Elisha’s children that lived in this area are Thomas Clay, Malinda Green, Columbus Carson, James Wilson, Henry Marshall and Ida Lona.

Genealogical burial records at the Cowtown Library, Wichita, list names of Ashton, Burgess, Cordell, Clark, C.C. Harrington, Dean Harrington, Charley Harrington, Henry and Mary Harrington, Ila Harrington, Maggie Harrington, Laura Harrington, Kerr, Knight, Nelson, Isaac and Bertha Nighswonger, Claude Nighswonger, Clyde Nighswonger, Perry Nighswonger, Earl Nighswonger, Harry and Elnora Nighswonger, Julia Nighswonger, Jay and Nannie Nighswonger, Ralph Nighswonger, Floyd Nighswonger, William and Anna Nighswonger, Nye, Paisley, Shelton, Yersin and Zimmerman.

It is maintained by the Clearwater Cemetery District as of June 11, 1943. Old ornate concrete fence posts and woven wire surround the plot. At one time, it was called the Ninnescah cemetery.

If there any questions regarding the Harrington Cemetery, please call the Cemetery Office at 620-584-2311.