Cemeteries in Henry
County
© Copyright 2003 by
Jean Leeper
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Construction
begun in Oct 2003
Updated June 6,
2004
My clickable listing,
below, is by townships.
You will find links below to
township maps with cemeteries marked, as well as to 1870 township
maps, with cemeteries marked by a cross.
On the cemetery pages
there will be pictures of each cemetery with directions. Some pioneer
cemeteries (no burials in last fifty years) have all stones
shown.
Cedar Creek Friend's
Cemetery is the home of about twenty of my ancestors. My ancestral
stone pictures are all shown.
If you have pictures or
information for a cemetery I do not have or better directions for a
listed cemetery; I would appreciate that information.
Pictures and information
are mine unless another is given credit.
I chalked some stones in
order to read their dates and used Adobe Photoshop to enlarge dates,
for easier reading.
Click
here. for an
alphabetical listing.
A
+
beside a name donates a
pioneer cemetery, which has had no burials in the last fifty
years.
The Mt. Pleasant Public
Library has the names of all buried (stones found) until ca 1989.
There is a all name index.
Baltimore
Township (map)
+ Badley
- was in section 7, Augusta Township, Des Moines County,
Iowa
+ Beery
......... (1870
map of area)
Bethany,
Hussy or Shelledy
Canaan Township
(map)
Sheridan
Trinity
+ ? in section 5
(may be the one in section 8)
+
?
in section 8 (see 1870 Plat map)
Center Township
(map)
+
Robinson - Is still
there. Took new pictures April 4, 2005. Was once part of a Boy Scout
Camp.
Jackson
Township
(map)
+ Greenwood (Woods) Maybe two
burials spot unknown
+ Hunting ---- Family does not
remember any stones.
+ Old Becker Farm Burials (???
where)
Jefferson
Township
(map)
+ Mt.
Ayr ---- Used to be a
church and cemetery, destroyed.
Just north of
Jefferson Township and in Washington County.
Marion Township
(map)
+ Menefee
------- Site lost -
may be in pond or taken by bypass.
+ Scott -------
(1870
map of area) Destroyed
and farmed over.
+ Z-Stones ------- Probably in
section 29 or 28, but can it be found.
New London
Township
(map)
All New London Township
cemeteries have gravel roads to them, but have many old stones lying
on the ground and are being covered over with grass.
Salem
Township
(map)
Scott Township
(map)
+ Hochreiter
or Kepper .......
(1870
map of area)
+ Richie
or Ritchey ......
(1870
map of area)
Winfield or
Scott Township
Tippecanoe
Township
(map)
+ Mormon graves - May not be
found. Believe stones found are of the Henry County pioneer families
Thomas Smith Sr. and Jr. (See Smith stones below.)
+Smith
Stones - Located in
section 5, being graded with stones to be reset. (Pictures
later.)
Trenton
Township
(map)
Wayne Township
(map)
+ Hesseltine
+ Tallman