Hundreds of private burial sites dot Nebraska. They rely on guardian angels to keep blight at bay. - Flatwater Free Press

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Hundreds of private burial sites dot Nebraska. They rely on guardian angels to keep blight at bay. - Flatwater Free Press

Ernest Kobs knows his family history. He knows his great-grandparents both emigrated from Germany, married in 1870 and, in 1874, bought and then worked a farm in northwest Douglas County. He knows they’re both buried on the land, but pinpointing exactly where is a bit fuzzy. “He’s either buried on my great-grandmother’s left or to her right,” Ernest Kobs says of his great-grandfather. “We just don’t know which.” While the land has changed hands …