I have learned that the records for St. Nicholas Church, and the cemetery, formerly known as Crooked Creek Cemetery, are located at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Caledonia, MN.
These include baptismal, marriage, and burial records for the period 1879 through 1897.
Following may be the earliest burials there:
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1878
Catherine Roster
John Hroack
1879
Nicholas Rolland
Wm. Meyer
1880
Matt Schiltz (schultz?)
Anna Olinger
an Margaret Onden
Mary Matilda Farret
1881
Frank Lorang
unk Streff
John Peter Olinger
John Peter Tisch
Catharinea Gengler
1882
Reinharnd Val Streff
Anna Tisch
Theodore Bissen
Matt Link
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Gary