There are nearly 200 burials in Rosette, which is located in Hanover Township. Rosette was known as Mt. Washington in the early days.
The stone at the left is for a Sassaman.
The earliest known burial in Rosette is that of Jordan Bruster, a former slave and early Lincoln County pioneer. Mr. Bruster bought his freedom, then bought his wife's as well.
Mr. Bruster's grave is unmarked, but the Death Register at Lincoln's City Hall gives his burial site as Rosette.