Rose Hill Cemetery serves Emerson, in the southeast of Dixon County. Calvary Cemetery, the Catholic ground, stands about a hundred yards away — two separate cemeteries side by side, and a search should cover both.
Emerson itself sits on the meeting of three counties, Dixon, Dakota and Thurston.
Around 2,471 memorials have been recorded, which is a record of what has been photographed and indexed rather than a count of everyone buried there.
For burial records or plot inquiries, contact the Village of Emerson, or the Dixon County Clerk in Ponca. Ownership can also be confirmed through the Nebraska Statewide Cemetery Registry at the State Historical Society.
Emerson village center lies in Dakota County, and this cemetery stands a short distance north-west of it, just inside Dixon County. Emerson is listed here as a Dakota County town so that everything at Emerson stays together in one place.