McKee Cemetery

(a.k.a. Ramsey or Whittecar)
Long Creek Township, Section 16

Entrance to McKee Cemetery
Photograph courtesy of Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert, 2010
Nearest town: Van Wert
Cemetery GPS Coordinates: 40.8647000,-93.8622000
Earliest tombstone burial: William Hyman McKee, Jan 15, 1857 (#A-3)
Latest tombstone burial: Joe S. Ramsey, 1958 (#1-1)
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History: This cemetery seems to be mostly for three families — McKee, Ramsey and Whittecar. (It has also been known as the Whittecar or Ramsey Cemetery.) Both McKees and Ramseys owned land around the cemetery.

Most of the stones have fallen or been pushed over.

In September 1980, the sheriff’s office raided a farm house looking for drugs and stolen property, and they found an old tombstone (#2-4) and the top off a large ornate stone (#6-4). These two pieces were returned to the cemetery.

There are two piles of stones, for use in this list they have been identified as pile A (A-#) and pile B (B-#).

A long, steep lane leads to this out-of-the-way cemetery.
NAME
ROW #, GRAVE #
DATE of BIRTH DATE of DEATH COMMENTS
BLUNT, Emeline
* Pile B-3
23 Jul 1876
AE 49y
W.P.A. Records
w/o Isaac BLUNT
BLUNT, R. F.
[Robert Francis BLUNT]
5-1
10 Mar 1874
Warren Co.
Iowa
06 Aug 1901
AE 26y 4m 27d
DeKalb IA
BLUNT, William W.
B-4
18 May 1878
AE 27y 10m 11d
h/o Elizabeth BLUNT

McKEE, Albert W.
6-3
03 Jan 1859
25 Apr 1893
gravestone has fallen off base
McKEE, Clark
A-5
05 ___ 1865
AE 24__
s/o R.N. ___ McKEE
broken stone, W.P.A. Records
McKEE, Clark W.
6-1
1853
1920
gravestone sharied with
Nancy L. McKEE
McKEE, Ida A.
4-2
22 Jan 1885
AE 23y 8m 4d
d/o J.M. P. McKEE
McKEE,
James M. Paulona
6-4
base top of gravestone
gravestone broken
McKEE, James M.
6-4
23 Jan 1823

20 Jul 1896

h/o Paulona McKEE
Father
stone broken into 3 pieces
McKEE, Maudatine13 Jan 1893 07 May 1893stone broken off base
McKEE, Nancy D.
1866
AE 65y
w/o R. McKEE
broken gravestone
McKEE, Nancy L.
6-1
1861
1927
His Wife Clark W. McKEE
McKEE, Paulona
6-4
18 Oct 1826

29 Jun 1896

w/o James M. McKEE
Mother
stone fallen of base
McKEE, Robert
4-1
11 Sep 1868
AE 65y
h/o A.M. McKEE
stone fallen off base
McKEE,
William Hyman
6-2
06 Feb 1857

09 Nov 1899
AE 43y 9m 1d
s/o J.M. Paulina McKEE

RAMSEY, Elmer
7-2
21 Oct 1952
AE 74y 6m 20d
metal temporary marker
RAMSEY, Joe S.
1-1
1865
1958
h/o Margaret RAMSEY
RAMSEY, Margaret
1-1
1871
1903
w/o Joe S.
RAMSEY,
Thomas Benton
7-1
1857

1950

WHITECAR
Family Stone
3-3
WHITECAR,
Arlando H.
2-4
23 Nov 1857
AE 1y 2m 27d
s/o J. M. WHITTECAR
[Josiah Margaret (WALDEN)]
WHITECAR,
George W.
A-3
15 Jan 1857
AE 2y 3m 20d
s/o J. H. WHITTECAR
broken gravestone
WHITECAR, James H.
A-1
05 Jan 1858
AE 5y 11m 8d
s/o J. H. WHITECAR
WHITECAR, Mary
A-4
08 Apr 1863
AE 62y 5m 22d
w/o H.H. WHITECAR
broken gravestone
WHITTECAR,
Alonzo L.
2-1
31 Aug 1859

15 May 1885

WHITTECAR,
Franklin Edgar
3-5
14 Mar 1871
AE 17y 8m 2d
s/o D. M. WHITTECAR

WHITTECAR, G.W.
B-2
Departed this life
08 Oct 1866
AE 44y 2m 23d
broken gravestone
on bottom gravestone McCall Engles, Oskaloosa IA
WHITTECAR, Infant
B-1
16 Jul 1863
AE 8d
Infant s/o W.A. M.M. WHITTECAR
WHITTECAR, Laura A.
3-4
20 Apr 1902
AE 38y 16d
d/o O. M. WHITTECAR
WHITTECAR,
Loren Artemas
3-1
09 Dec 1879
Van Wert IA
18 Apr 1901
AE 21y 4m 2d
s/o Mr. Mrs. Alonzo WHITTECAR
WHITTECAR,
Margaret J.
2-3
13 Aug 1873
AE 1y 16d
d/o A. M. WHITTECAR
broken stone
WHITTECAR, Mary F.
2-2
06 Nov 1876
AE 14y 10m 22d
d/o A. M. WHITTECAR

WHITTECAR, Mary
(SIMPKINS)
17 Oct 1800
Pennsylvania
08 Apr 1863

d/o George Esther SIMPKINS
w/o Henry H. WHITTECAR
WHITTECAR, Orlando
* no gravestone
25 Aug 1832
Madison Co.
Ohio
17 Jul 1920
Van Wert IA
Civil War Veteran Co. B, 18th IA Inf.
married 1856 Mary STEEN
WHITTECAR, Robert
11 Sep 1868
AE 65y
h/o A.M. McKEE
stone fallen off base
WHITTECAR, Sarah F.
3-2
16 Jul 1868
27 Sep 1895
WHITTECAR,
William H.
A-2
11 Oct 1858
AE 2d
s/o A. M. WHITTECAR

unknown
B-3
23 Jul 1878
AE 49y 3m 15d
W.P.A. Records
broken gravestone

Sources: Cemeteries of Decatur Co. IA; compiled by Lois Slade and transcribed for Decatur County IAGenWeb by Judy Chastain.
Updated by Sharon R. Becker, March 2014. Additional transcriptions from WPA Records and obituaries. Reformatted by Conni McDaniel Hall April 2019.
 
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