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Elim Cemetery

Elim Cemetery is located in Fertile Township on section 29 - 2 miles west of Fertile. This was the site of the Elim Free Lutheran Church and cemetery with the first burial in 1893 for Knut Morkve, age 81.

Elim Cemetery



Name                    Birth Date      Death Date      Source          Comments
Adams, Marvin Hubert    8-14-1946       4-27-2007 
Almelien, Anna		1902		    1970
Almelien, Edward        1910            1975                            Husband to Opal Almelien
Almelien, Emma          1899            1986
Almelien, George T.     1906            1908             
Almelien, George T.     4-26-1908       4-28-1983                       World War II veteran
Almelien, Gladys        1911            ---  
Almelien, Gunhild	1871		1951
Almelien, Rueben        1912            1989                            Husband to Gladys Almelien
Almelien, Ronald R.     4-04-1950       3-15-2000                       Husband to Molly J. Almelien
Almelien, Opal          1918            ---
Almelien, Tennis        1860            1924            
Clapper, Dallas L.	1910		1990
Clapper, Ruth V.        1911            1995                            Wife of Dallas L. Clapper
Field, Eileen M.        6-14-1922       2-10-2015                       
Field, Marlin O.        1918            1993                            Husband to Eileen M. Field
Fjeld, Martin O.        5-13-1978       21-1-1959                
Fjeld, Ida J.           8-01-1883       9-09-1955                       Wife of Martin O. Fjeld
Flaaton, Torgen         2-15-1828       3-25-1901 
Gudmundson, Anna        ---             ---		  WPA record
Gudmundson, Regnild     5-29-1835       9-5-1918                        
Halvorson, Mildred 	3-11-1900	8-19-1901
Harris, Alpha           1915            1919                            Daughter
Harris, Emma            1889            1919             	            Wife of Joseph Harris
Harris, Joseph          1888            1930                            Father
Haugen, Henry G.        6-22-1894       7-10-1973                       World War I veteran
Haugen, Henry Jr.       8-24-1943       9-23-1943
Haugen, Olga H.         11-21-1902      5-22-1993                       Wife of Henry Haugen
Heimdal, Ingeborg       1860            8-05-1902                    	Mrs. O. O. Heimdal
Holland, Gustav A.	11-8-1916	2-13-1985
Holland, Rachel N.      9-10-1920       ---                             Only one date on stone
Hovland, Albert         1870            1937            
Hovland, Elise          4-04-1881       9-22-1932       WPA record      Mother
Hovland, Hanna M.       12-11-1884      11-5-1902       
Hovland, Hans O.        8-10-1841       2-17-1915       
Hovland, Herman         9-16-1893       11-7-1963                       World War I veteran
Hovland, Homer G.	4-04-1901	1-05-1994		
Hovland, Julia          2-02-1886       7-26-1905	WPA record
Hovland, Mary           8-25-1856       11-14-1922                      Wife of Hans O. Hovland
Hovland, Malven         9-06-1906       9-06-1906       WPA record
Hovland, Martin         10-12-1876      5-10-1949                       Father
Hovland, Ole		1888		1954
Johnson, Ellef          10-9-1852       1-07-1921             
Johnsen, Tarjer         4-19-1856       2-14-1933                       Wife of Ellef Johnson
Kingland, Emma          1888            1938
Kingland, Evelyn        1907            ---
Kingland, Howard        1902            1977                            Parent of Lavonne & Marilyn
Kingland, Martha        1905            1997                                "       "
Kingland, Joseph	1885		1960
Kingland, Joseph (Mrs.) ---             8-19-1938	WPA record
Kingland, Tilden	1904	        1984	
Kingland, Wallace T.	1906		1977
Kirshbaum, Edward F.    6-13-1940       10-13-1998                      Husband to Gloria J. Kirshbaum
Kirshbaum, Gloira       3-23-1942       ---
Knudtson, Anna P.	1895		1924
Knudtson, Austina       1-19-1865       6-18-1950                       Wife of Knute T. Knudtson
Knudtson, George        1904            ---                             Name on the same stone as Martin Knudtson
Knudtson, Knute T.	1-18-1857	6-08-1927
Knudtson, Martin	1904		1971
Knutson, Oscar T.	1893		1975
Knutson, Leona L.       1907            1992                            Wife of Oscar T. Knutson
Levang, Andrea          9-03-1849       12-1-1918       `               Mother
Levang, Arthur L.       9-18-1921       10-18-2001                      Husband of Ruth E. - Our children: Paul, Dennis, Dean
Levang, Joseph H.       1912            ---
Levang, Ruth E.         10-22-1922      10-31-2013
Levang, Silence D.      1912            1997                            Wife of Joseph H. Levang - Parents of Mark, Linor
Mastre, Eli             1906            1993                            Parent of JoAnn, Marian & Keith
Mastre, Gladys          1914            1990                                    "      "
McKibben, Ina M.        3-30-1916       3-30-1916 
McKibben, Oliver N.	1919		1923
Mckibben, Ella Mestad   1894            1924            WPA record      Wife of Gilbert McKibben
Mestad, Charles         1927            1927
Midtgaard, Arden H.     1-24-1924       12-12-2016
Morkve, Anna L.         1808            1900
Morkve, Knut K.         1813            1894
Nyhus, Clara M.         1888            1916    	
Nyhus, Edward           11-11-1899      11-20-1914 
Nyhus, Einar H.		11-8-1866	5-21-1940
Nyhus, Jennet O.        7-11-1867       11-08-1908
O'Leary, Audrey J.      1929            4-13-2011
O'Leary, Howard A.      6-8-1927        3-18-2016        
Pederson, Hans Mathias  3-30-1862       12-31-1905 
Pederson, Jacobie Olene 7-29-1869       5-19-1949                       Wife of Hans M. Pederson
Pederson, Mildred O.    1902            1979                            Wife of Sever B. Pederson
Pederson, Sever B.      1891            1973 
Peterson, George J.     ---		8-6-2015 
Prestholt, Alfred G.    1906            1981
Prestholt, Anna O.      1882            1958                            Wife of Nels A. Prestholt
Prestholt, Grace        1899            1911  
Prestholt, Ethel J.     ---             1909                            Only one date on stone
Prestholt, Nels A.      1867            1958
Prestholt, Paul E.      4-17-1930       5-19-1998                       Korean War veteran
Prestoldt, W. Ellen     1909            1998                            Wife of Alfred G. Prestholdt
Rinden, Guro            1856            1943                            On same stone as Tellef Rinden
Rinden, Tellef          1858            1934		
Rodberg, Nellie T.      9-24-1890       6-21-1965
Schachtele, Delton P.   12-9-1919       12-23-1919
Schultz, Bruce L.       5-2-1959        3-19-2009
Seglem, James E.        1898            1968                            "FATHER"
Seglem, Ella            1898            1978                            "M0THER"
Seglem, Vernon E.       11-5-1922       8-02-1967                       "SON" - World War II veteran
Simonson, Erick         1821            1897		                    "FATHER"
Simonson, Kathrine      1826            1917                            "MOTHER"   
Spenser, Adeline M.     1919            2004                            Name on the same stone as Ellsworth E. Spenser
Spenser, Ellsworth E.   1915            2009                             
Stevens, Halvor		9-23-1863	6-17-1954
Stevens, Lena           10-8-1864       6-29-1944                       Wife of Halvor Stevens
Tallackson, Susanna     11-8-1826       2-05-1907                       Mrs. Tellev Tallackson
Tallackson, Tellef      9-19-1823       9-24-1909   
Tweed, Annie            1853            6-02-1905       WPA record
Tweed, Bjonne           1864            1916     	WPA record
Versland, Rev. Gabriel  1874            1911           
Werner, Erwin E.        1929            1991                            Husband of Marilyn R. Werner
Young, Emma C. Knutson  1900            1921            WPA record      Wife of Tom O. Young 
 

Source: From inscriptions on tombstones and "Tombstone Records of Worth County, Iowa" (copied by the Graves Registration, a WPA project.) and other sources.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, 6/5/2017.