Forest Lawn recently put up their own website at http://www.forestlawnomaha.com.  I won't rehash what their website says, but post some of my own pictures and thoughts about the inhabitants of the cemetery.

As I've said, the majority of Omaha's founders are at Prospect Hill. The second generation families of those founders, as well as the men who came in the 25 years after Omaha was born are, for the most part, at Forest Lawn in Section's 7, 8, 10, 21 and 22. If you know anything about Omaha's history, it's very obvious, as you walk through the sections, that they all congregated in this "upper level" area.

By the time these powerful men had made their money here, Prospect Hill had been handed over to Forest Lawn for $1 and was falling into disrepair, thanks to Forest Lawn's deliberate mismanagement. Byron Reed had planned on keeping the cemetery going with annual assessments to the lot owners, but lost quite a bit of money over the years and after finding no buyers, literally gave it to FL. He must have been getting too old, and was tired of worrying about the cemetery, because I can't see him doing that to Prospect Hill, which he loved and was himself buried there. Why would Forest Lawn promote Prospect Hill when they had plots of their own to sell? And they did sell plots to these rich families, entire sections and blocks of plots. I see these plots and enormous monuments at FL today, knowing the money they made, and think of PH being run into the ground and it doesn't make me feel kindly towards the early management of FL.

As you'll see, 99% of the photos of the people on this site are men. Our founding fathers never saw the need to include pictures of the women who helped build Omaha when they were publishing histories of the town; only the men. This has made it very difficult to connect a face to the women buried in these cemeteries, and if anyone out there has any pictures ot these women they'd like to share, please let me know.