Mica Cemetery accepted its first interment in 1883.

It’s the final resting place of military veterans, westward pioneers, and former Spokane County Sheriff Ezra Rinear who served in the 1890s.

When Mica township was dissolved, the cemetery came under the care of Spokane County—with about $40 allocated for its care.

That was in 1974. Since then, Senior director of public works Kyle Twohig says the county has relied on Boy Scouts, Kiwanis Club members, and neighbors to care for the plot.

“It is in a pretty poor state," Twohig said. "[It] really needs about 25,000 of work out there, just to bring it back to a reasonable state…The fence has been destroyed and parts stolen. The road is almost untravelable.”

The lack of care isn't for a lack of trying.

“We have tried to form a cemetery dis

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