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Guthrie Center, IA
Guthrie Center is the county seat of Guthrie Center, Iowa and is located in the Des Moines metro area.  The county was originally part of old Keokuk County and was comprised of approximately the western 2/3 of the state of Iowa.  In 1851 the region was divided into counties one of which was Guthrie, named for Captain William Guthrie, formerly of Keokuk and the captain of the only company Iowa sent to the Mexican War.

Part of the Underground Railroad passd through southern Guthrie county in the mid-1800's.  A number of families in the southern townships were "conductors' on the URR and helped hide, feed, cloth, direct and transport runaway slaves to freedom in Canada.

William Tracy came to Guthrie in 1856 and purchased the land which is now Guthrie Center.  He then sold the land to E. B. Newton who proceeded in the laying out of the town.  The plat for the town was filed by him on May 6, 1856.  Guthrie Center's estimated population in 2003 was 1,654.
Valley Township Cemetery
Valley Township Cemetery is the old cemetery located north of Union Cemetery in Guthrie Center, Iowa

NOTE: We visited Valley Township Cemetery in May of 2004 & 2006 and took the photos shown on this page.  My uncle and aunt, Arval & Vera (Bailey) Capehart are buried here as well as their sons, Earl Marvin & Ivan Ray and a grandson, Terrill Ray.
Cemetery Entrance
William Arval & Vera May (Bailey) Capehart
William b. 13 Jan. 1898 -- d. 9 Dec. 1968  Obituary
Vera b. 12 Jan. 1900 - d. 28 Jul. 1986 
Arval was the son of John & Sara Elizabeth (Burton) Capehart and the brother of Mabel (Capehart) Prochnow, Retta (Capehart) Fleak and Ray Capehart
Earl Marvin Capehart   Obituary
b. 25 Aug. 1958 -- d. 26 Aug. 1958
The infant son of Arval & Vera (Bailey) Capehart
Ivan Ray Capehart
b. 1 Oct. 1931 -- d. 26 Jul. 1957
He was the son of Arval & Vera (Bailey) Capehart and the brother of Earl Marvin, William Glenn, Kenneth & Wilma (Capehart) McKee
Terril Ray Capehart
b. 24 Aug. 1958 -- d. 25 Aug. 1958
The infant son of William Glenn & Barbara (Caldwell) Capehart

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