Cash Cemetery |
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| Burrell Township, Section 5 | |
 Cash Cemetery, Restored. Photograph courtesy of Bob Bixby, April of 2018 |
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 Photograph courtesy of Audrey Schroeder, July of 1993 |
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| Nearest town: Decatur City Cemetery GPS Coordinates: 40.7308036,-93.8815641 Earliest tombstone burial: Eli Cash in 1849 View Gravestone Photos |
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| History: Eli Cash took a claim in
Decatur County in 1845 which his young son, William Cash, afterward
entered from the government. Eli died in 1849 and was the first
tombstone burial on the Cash land. Although the story goes that while
traveling through in 1845 or 46, a father asked Eli Cash if they could
bury their little girl on his land. This would have been the first
burial, an unmarked grave in southeast corner. The cemetery is fenced with many lovely oak and hickory trees. Deed #128 was recorded on September 1st, 1899 by Wm. Cash & Lydia Cash to the Trustees of Burrell Township one square acre for cemetery purposes. |
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NAME ROW/STONE |
BIRTH DATE | DEATH DATE | COMMENTS |
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Cash, Clara C. (Wion) 2-2 |
1878 | 1859 | w/o Fred W. Cash |
| Cash, Eli 5-2 | 1795 North Carolina |
1849 | newer type monument |
| Cash, Elizabeth 5-3 | July 27, 1834 | Dec. 7, 1855 | w/o Wm. Cash |
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Cash, Fred W. 2-2 | 1872 | 1942 | s/o William Reed Cash |
| Cash, John A. 1-4 | 1879 | 1955 | |
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Cash, Lydia Margaret (Starkey) 1-1 | 01 Jan 1841 DeKalb IL |
11 Mar 1916 AE 75y 2m 10d Lamoni IA | md 26 Jul 1867 William Reed Cash |
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Cash, Vivian Maxine 2-1 | 1915 | 25 Apr 1921 | d/o Fredrick "Fred" W. Cash |
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Cash, William Reed 1-1 | 22 Jul 1830 | 02 Feb 1919 | md 26 Jul 1867 Lydia Margaret STARKEY |
| Dunbar, Elizabeth 4-5 | 22 Jan 1863 | w/o Ben J. Dunbar | |
| Dunbar, Harriet E. 4-6 | 27 Apr 1875 AG 18m 11d | d/o B. & E.L. Dunbar | |
| Dunbar, Infant 4-4 | 00 Sep 1853 | d/o B. & E. Dunbar | |
| Dunbar, Laura 4-3 | 11 Jul 1864 AG 27y 11m 17d | w/o Wm Dunbar | |
| Ryan, Henry 5-1 | 24 Feb 1879 | 03 Mar 1879 | s/o Matthew P. & Margaret J. Ryan |
| Ryan, William J. 5-1 | 09 Nov 1859 | 20 Feb 20 | s/o Matthew P. & Margaret J. Ryan |
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Sellers, Monos T. 3-2 | 1788 | 1864 | father of John Sellers |
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Sellers, daughters 3-2 | two d/o Monos T. Sellers | ||
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Springer, Emma (Cash) 1-2 & 3 | 18 Jun 1864 | 10 Dec 1938 | d/o William R. Cash md Apr 1915 James G. Springer same footstone as 1-2 & 3 |
| Takacs, Ferdinand 3-1 | Born in Hungary | 11 Feb 1888 AG 81y | |
| Williams, Charley 4-1 | 10 Mar 1892 AG 9y 11m 19d | child of T. & M.J. Williams | |
| Williams, Mary E. 4-1 | 28 Oct 28 1868 AG 1y 8m 13d | child of T. & M.J. Williams | |
| Williams, Melissa C. 4-1 | 04 Jan 1889 AG 3y 11m 25d | child of T. & M.J. Williams | |
| Williams, Melissa J. 4-2 | 1843 | 19__ (uncut but 37 scratched in | w/o Thomas Williams |
| Williams, Thomas 4-2 | 1841 | 1926 |
| Source: Cemeteries of Decatur Co. IA; compiled by Lois Slade Transcribed and Re-canvassed by Leah Sue Price Walling and Shelly Reed. |
| Cemetery Directory *** Decatur County IAGenWeb |