Ellsworth Cemetery, Buckeye Township, Hardin County, Iowa
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Ellsworth Cemetery, Eldora Township, Section 20
Pioneer Cemetery
aka Bailey CemeteryAbandoned, last burial prior to 1914.
Travel south of Eldora on Hwy. #215 to the first road to the left, Then go one mile east and 1/2 mile north. Located at 24651 Y Ave Eldora township. This old burial plot is located under the trees in the back yard of the home of Rick Steinfeldt off to the westside of the road where it starts an S curve. (Rick now maintains this cemetery keeping it mowed and free of brush. For many years it was forgotten and overgrown with an occassional clean up effort from a local service group. It was a fenced in weedpatch in the middle of the pasture with an occasional steer checking out what was behind the fence.). It is one of the early pioneer cemeterys in Eldora Township.
Orginally on land (section 20) claimed by Jonathan Conger, who sold his claim to William Bailey. Mr. Bailey built the log cabin near his residence (built in 1853) that became the first school house (built in summer of 1853) in Hardin County. The school house also served as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church with servives preached br Rev. J.R.Lowrance another early settle to the township. On the west side of it you can plainly see the ruts of the old stage coach road which traveled from Marshalltown to Eldora and beyond. The land has been in the Carl Steinfeldt family for some time, prior to that it was owned by Sibley Moran. This cemetery is abandoned. There are at least 30 graves there, but only 5 stones that are still in tact and upright, can be found,there are 5 or 6 more that are there but lying on the ground or broken.
NW1/4 SE1/4 17-87-19
Copied by Glenn and Sally PAUL and Jesse and Julia LUNDY BRAGA 1974.
SURNAMES LISTED IN ELLSWORTH CEMETERY
| BLAIR | BOSLEY | CONGER | ABBOTT | CRAIG |
| HENSLEY | JOLIFF | KING | ELLSWORTH | MADDOX |
| McCALL | PENN | RATHBONE | MASON | SWIFT |
| YOSLEY |
(*) Denotes the stones that ARE still there
NAME |
DEATH |
AGE |
NOTES |
| ABBOTT, William Wallace * | Mar. 23, 1856 | 11m | son of H W & T V ABBOTT |
| BLAIR, Mary S.* | Oct. 22. 1856 | 26y 9m 5d | wife of William T. BLAIR |
| CONGER, Jonathan N.* | Jan. 23, 1857 | 55y 22d | Stone is down but there |
| ELLSWORTH, Charles F. | Aug. 21, 1854 | 2y 5m 6d | son of N B & A M ELLSWORTH |
| ELLSWORTH, Mary A. | Apr. 11, 1860 | 7y 6m 3d | dau of Jason and Elizabeth ELLSWORTH |
| ELLSWORTH, George* | no dates | Pvt. Co. G Ia. Calvalry GAR (stone is in exceptional shape. and standing military stone near northwest gate) | |
| ELLSWORTH, Matilda* | Mar.12, 1857 | 6y 3m | dau of D J & J ELLSWORTH |
| KING, unreadable* | Mar. 16, 1856 | 8m 3m 1d | dau of R G & S KING (top of stone missing) |
| KING, Samuel J. | Feb. 21, 1855 | 3y 3m 26d | son of R G & S KING (broken stone) |
| KING, Susan *down | Apr. 28, 1857 | 46y 1m 2d | wife of Rueben G KING ( this stone is there in very good shape in tact but down is large 2ft by 4ft slab stone) Rueben G King killed a Shiloh. |
| KING, William B. *down | Dec. 15, 1855 | 9y 9m 25d | son of R G & S KING |
| McCALL, Tryphenia * | Jan. 15, 1871 | 20y 2m 9d | wife of William J. McCALL |
| SWIFT, Chapman B. | May 6, 1854 | 37y 11m 23d | |
| SWIFT, Ebenezer R. | Apr. 23, 1856 | 57 3m 3d | son of G D & S W SWIFT |
| WEBB, Mary S. | no dates | wife of Allen E. WEBB (bottom of Stone gone) | |
| ELLSWORTH, Anson | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, Elizabeth | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, Grace | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, Linn | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, Amelia | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, Ella | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| ELLSWORTH, H. | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| BOSLEY, child | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| MASON, Mr. | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| YOSLEY, D. | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| HENSLEY, Mrs. & baby | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| JOLIFF, Mrs. | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| PENN, 4 children of George | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| PENN, 1 child of Zach | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| KING, 1 child of Rueben | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| RATHBONE, Mrs. Ira | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| MADDOX, Robert | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| CRAIG, 3 children W.R. | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |
| SWIFT, unreadable | no stone | from 1914 Eldora Cemetery Society record | |