The first burial at the Lewiston Cemetery was in 1886, five years before the cemetery was officially plotted in 1891. George Thomson, a blacksmith, is buried in the far northeast corner of the cemetery. The cemetery is a small area, sold to the Lewiston Cemetery Association in August 1891 for the sum of $1.00 by Ford Lewis, for whom the town is named, and his wife Elizabeth, who had come to Nebras…