Laurel Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Nebraska

Laurel Hill Cemetery is a burial ground located on 21st Street in Omaha, Nebraska, one block north of Harrison Street, which is the dividing line between Douglas County and Sarpy County in Nebraska.

[2] The earliest recorded burial on the property was Friedrich Sautter in January 1867.

Albright completed the purchase of the Christian Sautter farm and officially mapped out 12 and 1/2 acres of burial lots.

In 1936 the cemetery was turned over to lot owners and an annual assessment for maintenance was levied.

[2] Notable burials in the cemetery are the maternal grandmother of Peter Kiewit, Anna Schleicher and her daughter, Rose, and Fred Astaire's maternal grandmother, Wilhelmine Geilus and her son, August.