Cedar Creek Friends
Cemetery
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Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery was
begun soon after Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting was set of by Salem
Friends Monthly Meeting in January 1841. To the right of the archway
the stones are placed in order of burial. Many stones in this part of
the cemetery are now buried under sod. My first ancestor buried
there, Zachariah Hodson was in September 1843 and he is two thirds of
the way to the south end of the first row in the
cemetery.
To get to the cemetery from Mt.
Pleasant go west on 34 to Franklin Avenue (W55). Go South towards
Salem. Take 285th Street west and then north on Erickson Drive. There
was a dirt road the road before 285th that could also be taken west
and then south on Erickson Drive. Cedar Creek Friends Church is just
north of the cemetery. There are pictures of Cedar Creek Church on
this web page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/Jean.html
The cemetery is on the east side of
the road and is cared for by the Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery
Association, Inc. Our operating
expenses are paid from donations to the cemetery. It costs over
$2,000 a year to mow the cemetery. There are plans developing, to
place a white fence around the cemetery in 2005
Donations may be mailed to
Treasurer: Jean Leeper, 910 S Oakbrook Drive, Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641
Jean is presently searching microfilms of old church records
searching for names of all buried there. No one record seems to be
complete.
Other officers are
President - Jon Mills, Salem, IA:
Vice President - Ralph Breazeale, Mt. Pleasant, IA: Secretary - Kay
Wesely, Salem, IA
Listing
of Burials Since 1904 from cemetery
books.
Click on my family name below, to
view family stones.
Trueblood
- Hallowell
- Collins
- Hodson
& Wilmeth - Maxwell
Cedar
Creek Restoration Project and pictures of most stones before
1900.
E-mail
Archway over north end drive.
Looking to the SE
Looking on the other side of the driveway. The drive turns at the back and exits on the southwest corner.
Looking south from the drive.