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List of Burial Transcriptions contributed by Sharyl McClure
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Badger Township
Blossom
Hill Cemetery: Section 11, 1 mile N, 2 miles E Badger, near corner. Has more
than 250 graves with tombstones.
Concordia
Lutheran Cemetery :Section 31, 1 mile W, 1/4 mile N of the Fort Dodge
Airport. Has approx
60 graves with tombstones.
Hovey
Cemetery : Section 8, 1 mile N , 1 1/4 miles W of Badger on south side of
road. Has more than 250
graves with tombstones. Map no longer available through USGS
Pioneer
Cemetery :Section 4, 1 mile N of Badger, W of farm on the corner, 64 graves
with tombstones.
Burnside Township
Oak Grove Cemetery : Section
13, 1 1/2 miles S of Lehigh, North of curve in road. Map no longer available
from USGS
Has over 306 graves with tombstone
and many without markers. Also known as "Beem Cemetery," as Mr.
Beem donated the land for the cemetery when his
18-year-old son, Noble, was the first to be buried there after he drowned
while fording the river, May 13, 1856.
Noble's mother died in 1893, and his father John, in 1885. There are 25
Marshs, 17 Beems, 14 Andrews buried there with
tombstones. James Bass's father-in law, Mr. Holloway of North Carolina was
buried there after he died Feb. 1881 (no Marker).
James Bass came to Webster County in the fall of 1852.
The many peony bushes in this cemetery were planted by John Marsh and John
Linn.
Clay Township
Callender
Cemetery : Section 6, 1/2 Mile E, 1/2 mile N of Callender. West part of
cemetery.
Saron
Lutheran Cemetery : Section 6, 1/2 mile E, 1/2 mile N of Callender, center of
cemetery.
Vinje
J.C. Lutheran Cemetery : Section 6, 1/2 mile E, 1/2 mile N of Callender, east
part of cemetery.
All
three cemeteries are in one.
Colfax Township
Colfax
Township Cemetery : Section 14, 4 1/2 Mile S of Vincent, East side of road
P-71. Has over
209 buried here including 22 Rossows and 39 Dencklaus.
St
Joseph's Cemetery, or "Duncombe's Catholic Cemetery" : Section 35,
1/4 mile N of Duncombe,
on county road D20.
Old maps would show it as US 20 through Duncombe. Has over 262 marked
graves.
Cooper Township
Note:
Other than Fairview, all of these cemeteries are located on 15th
Street/County Road P-56.
Corpus
Christi Catholic Cemetery: North Fort Dodge, follow 15th
Street north which turns
into County Road P56, after crossing Soldier Creek, this cemetery is the
second one on the West side of the road,
adjacent to Oakland Cemetery. This road is also known locally as
413. Has thousands of marked graves.
Former
cemetery called Fairview : At the corner of B Street
and Avenue F in Fort Dodge,it is now housing.
Some of the deceased were reburied elsewhere.
Haviland
"Old Prairie": North edge of Fort Dodge, east of 15th
Street/CR P-56. The Haviland family came to
Webster County 1854-55 from Dutchess County, New York. According
to USGS aka is North Lawn.
North
Lawn Cemetery: North on 15th Street/P-56, this cemetery is north of Oakland
and Corpus Christi but on
the east side of the road. Has thousands of marked graves.
Oakland Cemetery:
Map North on 15th St. /CR P-56, this cemetery is the first one past Soldier
Creek
on the West side of the road. This cemetery is very hilly, and
lovely. Has thousands of marked graves. The
Oaklawn Cemetery Association was organized Feb. 24, 1866, the cemetery at the
time was 3/4 miles from the city limits.
Buried on the west side of this cemetery, Major William Williams, the
founder of Fort Dodge. He was
born Dec 6, 1796 in Greensburgh, Westmoreland County,Pennsylvania, and came
to the Fort Dodge area
in 1850 with the troops as sutler. He remained in 1854 when the
troops left and founded the town.
He died Feb 26, 1874. .
St
Pauls Lutheran Cemetery: North and adjacent to Northlawn Cemetary
on the east side of 15th St./P-56.
Many nationalities buried here.
Dayton Township
Dayton
Cemetery and Dayton Catholic Cemetery : Section 14, west edge of Dayton,
south of Highway 175.
Swedish
Lutheran Church Cemetery : Section 33, west side of 169, 1 1/2 miles S of
Dayton. On this plot, in unmarked
graves, rest an unknown number of the Scandinavian pioneers of this
area, adults and children. To their memory
a monument was erected in 1952 by Emanuel Lutheran Church of Dayton.
Deer Creek Township
Trinity
Lutheran Cemetery : Section 22, 4 miles E of Clare, N of road C66. Where the
evergreen trees were planted
in the shape of a cross, there are 162 marked graves including 6 Schultze, 13
Schulze, 1 Schutze and 2 Seltz.
The German settlers built their church southeast of the cemetery . Map
no longer available on USGS.
Douglas Township
Burns
Cemetery : Section 16, 3 1/4 miles W, 1/2 mile N of Fort Dodge, E of road at
the corner.
Where 8 markers were found among tall weeds by a neighbor several
years ago. Several infants were buried
there in unmarked graves after an epidemic.
There are 6 Burns and 2 Banks tombstones located here.
Douglas
Township Cemetery,also known as "Carpenter Cemetery" : Section 24,
W edge of Fort Dodge, W of 169.
Has 275 graves. James Karr is the first person buried here, had lived on a
farm nearby
and donated the land for a cemetery. He was buried in 1863 .
Old
Lizzard Cemetery "Lumpkin Cemetery" : Section 18, 5 miles W, 3/4
mile W, 1/2 mile N of Fort Dodge.
Has 32 known buried in this badly neglected cemetery which is used as a cow
pasture, has a few tombstones
rolled down in the creek. Among the markers 6 were Davis and 5 were Elson.
St.
Olaf Cemetery : West edge of Fort Dodge, W of Highway 169. Has 676 graves
and lies east of Douglas Township Cemetery.
Willowledge
Cemetery, or "Coffin Cemetery : Section 14, 1 3/4 miles W, 1/2 mile N of
Fort Dodge. Is on a hill, fenced in
and well kept, amid a cow pasture E of the house. Lorenzo S Coffin of Alton,
New Hampshire was born in 1823,
came to Fort Dodge in 1854, owned one of the largest Shorthorn cattle herds
in the West and was nationally known
for promoting railroad safety legislation. He preached from 1859 to 1876
sometimes going 40 miles on horseback
and also served in the Civil War. He promoted temperance among railroad men,
furnished funds for the disabled
and infirmed railroad men near Chicago, Il. There are 5 Coffin, 2 Chase and 1
Pierce graves here.
Elkhorn Township
County
Farm Cemetery : Section 3, 1 mile S, 1/2 mile W of Fort Dodge. Has 31 marked
graves.
The earliest is Swan Swanson born about 1802, died 1894, age 92 years and
Mrs. E. Wright, died 1892, age 56 years.
Elkhorn
Township Cemetery : Section 16, 5 miles S, 1 1/2 miles W of Fort Dodge, 1/2
mile W of Bohemian Hall.
County Road D33. Has 290 marked graves. .
Graceland
Cemetery : Section 15, 5 miles W of Fort Dodge, 1/2 E of Bohemian Hall.
Located on D33 also, 1 mile E of Elkhorn Cemetery. Has 132 marked
graves. .
Fulton Township
Fulton
Township Cemetery "Mizpah Cemetery" : Section 14, 1 mile S, 3/4
mile W of Moorland.
Has 194 marked graves. Map no longer available on USGS.
Fulton
Lutheran Cemetery "Norwegian Lutheran" : Section 20, 1 mile N, 1/4
mile W of Roelyn.
Has a sign marked 1890 - 1950. The church burned. There are 219 marked
graves. John P Ness who donated
the land, was born in 1865 and died in 1938. His wife Anna, born 1862 and
died 1939.
The earliest dated marker was 2 Andersons who died 1880.
Our
Lady of Good Counsel : Section 14, North edge of Moorland, N side of Highway
20.
Has over 124 graves which include 28 McCarvilles and 28 Halligans.
Gowrie Township
Gowrie
Township Cemetery : Section 2, on West edge of Gowrie. Has 26 rows, each
about a
block long. This cemetery has a large variety of surnames. Map no
longer available on USGS.
Hardin Township
Hardin
Township Cemetery, "Richey Cemetery" : Section 22, 1 mile W, 2
miles S, 1/2 mile W of Stratford,
behind farm buildings. Found by driving west up a lane, lies behind a
farmers home. It has over 305 marked graves,
mostly Scandinavians. Some of the earlist persons buried here
are: Emily Sackrison who died Jan 1, 1855;
Mrs. J. Peterson born 1834 died 1877; and Lisa Lundgren born 1806, died
1878. Also called Johnson Cemetery
on the USGS page.
Hardin
Cemetery : Section 21, 1 mile S, 4 1/4 miles E, 1 mile S of Dayton, 1 block
South in pasture.
The two graves were fenced in by the Webster County Historical Society.
Buried here - Jane Hardin, the wife
of Joseph Hardin who came to the area in 1849 and settled in Section 21.
She was the daughter of C. & C. Briant of Hocking County, Ohio,
died Dec 17, 1855 age 37 years
and is buried along side of her 7-year-old son Conrad.
Jackson Township
Jackson
Center Cemetery : Section 27, 1 1/2 miles W of Clare, 1/2 mile S, 1/2 mile
E,on hill top.
Located east of the main road, up a lane,on the top of hill.
It has 1919 on the sign above the gate. It has 51 marked graves, one being
Arthur Hardin, who died in 1876.
He was the 5 year old son of Dr. E.M. & M Hardin.
St
James Cemetery : Section 34, 1/4 mile W, 1/4 mile S of Clare, West side of
road. Has over 458 marked
graves including 23 soldiers. James Donahoe donated the land for the
cemetery.
St
Patricks Catholic or North Lizzard : Section 19, 5 miles W., 1/4 mile N of
Clare. North of road C66 about 1/4
of the cemetery is in Pocahantas County. Has over 364 graves. Shortly
after the original church was built in 1871,
the congregation purchased 3 acres of land from Michael Morrissey for
the Civil War soldiers
that were buried here, and one from the Mexican War.
Johnson Township
Calvary
United Presbyterian Cemetery : Section 34, 1/2 mile W, 2 miles S of Barnum.
Has 41 marked graves.
St
John's Cemetery-Now Called St. Josephs : Section 15, North edge of Barnum,
North side of Highway 7. Has over 135 marked graves.
Lost Grove Township
Lost
Grove Township Cemetery : Section 16, 1 1/4 mile W, 2 miles N of Lanyon, 1/2
mile W, 1/4 mile N.
Or 3 mi W of Harcourt then 1 mi. S, 1/2 mi E and 1/2 mi N. Located on
hilltop by way of a lane. The large ash tree,
near the south gate was planted in 1876 by the Nelsons the same year in which
their 20-year-old daughter,
Christina was buried. Later Gust Carlson of Lanyon measured out the
cemetery from that grave.
An Eskimo named Constantine Aparsook died July 17, 1904 while visiting with a
missionary, and was
buried here also. The 1882 sign for the cemetery was made by Harry
Carlson in 1967.
A regular cartaker was obtained in 1906.
Newark Township
Newark
Township Cemetery : Section 16, 1/2 mile N, 3/4 mile W of Vincent, North side
of the road.
Has over 214 marked graves.
Otho Township
Otho
Cemetery : Section 28, 1/2 mile S, 1/2 mile E, 3/4 mile S of Otho. Has among
the graves veterans from the
Mexican War - John Tomlinson; one from the War of 1812-A.C.
Douglas; three from the Spanish
American War- Otto Chalstrom, Jas Ballyntyne and Frank Donahoe; 36 Civil War
Vets; 30 World War I and
11 from World War II.
Pleasant Valley Township
Holliday
Creek or Pleasant Valley : Section 10, 2 miles E, 1 block S of Coalville, has
over 120 marked graves in this
wooded area - including 20 Crouses and 13 Crosbys. Called Pleasant
Valley Cemetery
on the USGS site.
Roland Township
Danish
Lutheran Cemetery : 1899, Section 23, 1 mile S, 3/4 mile W of
Callendar. According
to the USGS, THIS cemetery is called Our Saviour Cemetery.
Has over 78 graves - 12 being Hansons. Rev. H.P.Hanson, pastor of the church
was born in 1882
and buried here in 1967. 1899 sign by gate.
Our
Savior's Lutheran Cemetery : 1898, Section 8. 3 Miles W of Callender on D43.
According the USGS, THIS cemetery is called the Danish Cemetery.
Has 42 marked graves. Doris may have her directions mixed up.
This map fits the directions above.
Sumner Township
West
Lawn Cemetery : Section 11, 1 mile W of Lehign, North of Highway 50. Has over
255 lots. The flood of
1954 ruined the books of the cemetery but there are fairly complete records
at the Fort Dodge Library.
Wahkonsa Township
Memorial
Park Cemetery : East side of Fort Dodge, on the corner of 32nd Street and
Business Hwy 20.
Washington Township
Blanchard
Cemetery : Section 28, 5 miles S, 1/2 mile W of Duncombe, N up lane,1/4 mile,
1/8 mile west.
Has over 103 graves.
The earliest marker is Cath Gatchel, daughter of E & M, who died December
1, 1859.
Border
Plains Cemetery: Section 36, 1 mile north of Lehigh,on a gravel road, at the
back of a farm field.
The gate is marked with a small sign. Border Plains Cemetery has over 79
graves - many are unmarked.
In September 1929 a marble stone was placed here marking the grave of Rev.
John Johns who was born in Kentucky in 1801.
He was an ardent abolitionist, migrated to Ohio, Indiana and then to one mile
North of Lehigh, Ia. before 1853. He was
the first white man to cultivate in Webster County, on the west side of
the Des Moines River. He weighed 225 pounds
and was over 6 feet tall, had a heavily bearded face, hunted and trapped
during the day, and was a Justice of the Peace.
He won the respect at the Republician Convention with his brilliant oratory,
although at first he was ridiculed because of his
coon skin cap and deer skin clothes. He was selected delegate-at -large to
the national convention which he nominated
Abraham Lincoln for the president. He walked most of the way to Chicago to
attend it. He held a religious meeting
one mile east of the river in a wooded tract, July 1860 and all persons
attending were to bring tents
and provisions. This is the approximate location of the cemetary. He
died in 1865.
Duncombe
Methodist Cemetery : Section 5, West of downtown Duncombe.
USGS no longer lists this cemetery. Has over 400 graves.
Ober
& Scott Cemetery: Section 33, 6 miles S, 1/2 mile E of Duncombe, on hill
top. Has been in a neglected state
for over 33 years - has 7 tombstone amid the many raspberry bushes, thistles
and poison ivy.
The earliest dated marker was December 2, 1891, for one month old
son of Wm. & Julia Scott.
The last dated marker was for Oliver, 10 year old son of D.w & E. Ober,
who died April 7, 1921.
Washington
Township Cemetery "Duncombe Lutheran Cemetery" : Section 16, 3
miles S of Duncombe.
Located on a corner of an intersection, has an evergreen near the gate with
one trunk and two tops.
Over 204 graves are marked here. (Duncombe's Catholic Cemetery is in
Colfax Township) USGS no longer
has a map for this cemetery.
Webster Township
Hartman
Cemetery : Section 10, 7 miles S of Duncombe, or 2 miles W, 1/4 S of Homer,
West of Road. Located in pasture
on hilltop. It has 8 markers although there are 14 graves just west of the
creek. Jacob Hartman, Col. H. 44th Indiana Infantry,
and his wife, Ceb. were buried here with relatives, except two children who
were not related.
Vegor's
Cemetery : Section 25, 1 mile W, 3 1/2 mile S of Homer (which is just outside
of Webster County),
north side of the road. Located on hill top overlooking the joining
Boone
and Des Moines Rivers. Of the 168 marked graves here are: 17 Vegors, 17
Eslicks,
and 8 Bells. Wm. Vegors, the one year old son of C.H. & E. Vegors was
buried here in 1861.
C.H. Vegors died on 1891, age 44 years and his wife Emma died in 1894.
A memorial marks the most Northern of 5 Indian Mounds in this Cemetery.
In one grave, being reburied here in 1960 are the remains of several
pre-historic people of this region
who were originally buried in a "bundle" on a hill top Southeast of
the mouth of the Boone River.
The tall white monument which was placed in this cemetery September 9, 1911
by the
Old Settlers Picnic Assoc. of Bell's Mill marks the grave of Mrs. Henry Lott
who was the first white woman settler in Webster County in the summer of
1846. Isaac Sr. Sell was
born in PA in 1796, farmed 12 years in Clay County, Ind., then came to Iowa
in 1844 and to Webster
County April 1849, farmed 160 acres in Yell Township. His
father Benjamin Bell, served in the
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 He died February 10, 1853 aged 102
years and was buried in this
cemetery. His sister, who died in early womanhood, had been a
sweetheart of George Washington.
Isaac died February 2, 1872 aged 76 years and his wife Amy, who was
born in Virginia about 1798, died
August 25, 1863 aged 65 years. Both are buried here. In 1857 Belleville was
laid out by Isaac and Jacob Bell.
Jasper M. Bell, born 1840, had donated the land for the Bell's Mill Park,
south of Homer,
where the Old Settler's Reunion is held every year, usually in August.
USGS Map is no longer available.
Yell Township
Bass
or "Low" Or "Payne" Cemetery : Section 32, 2 miles N, 2 1/2
miles E of Dayton, N of road on hilltop.
Has over 41 graves which include: 4 Low, 6 Holts, 5 Weeks, 5 Payne, 1 Bass
with Markers. Some of the others are too weather worn to read. James Bass
homesteaded 80 acres NE of Dayton, came to Webster County in the fall of
1852, married in 1857 in Boone County, Ia to Cassy Halloway who was born in
Wilksboro, N.C. March 24, 1837 and died February 3, 1901. She and her husband
are buried in Dayton's cemetery. James was born in Surry Co., N.C April 27,
1832, the son of Edward and Mary (Saffley) Bass who were of German descent.
His paternal grandfather was in the Revolutionary War and fought in the
Battle of Bunker Hill. William Low was born on March 11, 1772 in
Randolph County, Va. died June 16, 1865, served in the War of 1812. He and
his second wife Sabrina (Davis) are buried in this cemetery. She was born
July 6, 1776 in Randolph Co., Virginia and died in 1876. William came
to Webster County, Iowa in 1855. His son Emanual E. Low was born June 21,
1840 on the Old National Road, US 40, near Martinsville, Clark County,
Illinois. He helped his father farm until 20 years of age, the went into the
sawmill business. He married Elizabeth Nicholas who was born in Luzerne
County, Pa. March 20, 1848, the daughter of Richard Nicholas who was
born in Cornwall, England in 1815 and came to Webster County in the fall of
1861, mined and farmed in Yell Township. He and his first wife were buried in
McGuire Bend Cemetery.
New Cemetery Info
McGuire Bend Cemetery is located southeast of Lehigh in
Yell Township Section 15 (Dayton). It is right behind McGuire Bend
United Brethren Church. The address for the church is 3138 McGuire Bend
Road, Dayton, Iowa 50530. The following link is now a map link as the
church website is no longer online.
McGuire Bend United Brethren
Church
Here is a page that has photos of the church and cemetery. Photos Jul 2008
The
book that was used as a source for this material was put together for the
1976 Bicentennial. This book is now over twenty
years old. For this reason, some of the data may be outdated.
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