BOYLESTON CEMETERY

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Pictures taken by Jean Leeper on April 2, 2004

Located in Jackson Township in the NW corner of section 25

on the hill above 1850 stone house.

Just off J20 (Salem Road) on Lexington Avenue.

The farmer who lived in the house took us to the cemetery.

Please ask his permission and have him take you.

This house was built in ca 1850 and used to house a store and the post office. Cemetery up on a hill in a pasture behind the house.

As you walk up the old lane to the top of the hill this is to the right.

In front of these stones is a area where a whole row could have been. The farmer said that when coming home from hunting after a light snow where some of it had melted he could see a row of small humps. So probably many more buried there than stones can be found.

There was a fenced area with a gate with one stone in it. See the next three pictures showing three sides of that stone.

Gone but not forgotten, Barbara Tempel, wife of A. Tempel, died in Boylston, IA, Oct 1, 1878, aged 41.

At rest, Adam Tempel, died in St. Louis, Mo. Aug 27 1893, aged 54 YRS

Jesse B. Temple, son of A. T. and E A. Temple, died July 11, 1852, aged 2 yrs 6 ms & 3 ds

The following are believed to be buried in the cemetery but no stones found

1. Robert Canfield, 12 Nov 1898, 72 yrs and 8 mos old

2. George Smalley, d. 5 Aug 1884 age 1 yr 4 mos 11 days

3. Cynthia Hicks, born 1816 and died 28 July 1886, aged 70 yrs 9 mos 13 dys.

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