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Capehart/Marion/Severin
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Adair, IA
Pleasant Hill Cemetery is located in Guthrie County but it's address is Adair which is in Adair County. The community straddles Adair and Guthrie Counties and is 55 miles west of Des Moines and 75 miles east of Omaha.
Adair was named in honor of General John Adair, the sixth governor of Kentucky and an officer in the War of 1812. The town was laid out by George C. Tallman on his own land during the summer of 1872 and on August 20, 1872 the plat of the town was filed in the Recorder's Office of Adair County. The town had previously been named Summit Cut because it was high point on the Rock Island in Iowa and the ridge forming the watershed divides between the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. The estimated population of Adair in 2003 was 803.
A noteworthy event for Adair involved the James-Younger gang led by Jesse James who committed the first successful robbery of a moving train on the evening of July 21, 1873, a mile and a half west of Adair.
Pleasant Hill Cemetery is near Bowman Chapel in the North Branch Community of Guthrie County, Iowa. From Guthrie Center you would take Hwy 44 (west) 11.7 miles, turn left (south)onto Bowman Ave. and go 1 mile, then turn left (east) onto 240th St. and go .1 mile, then turn right (south) onto local road and go 1 mile.
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NOTE: We visited Pleasant Hill Cemetery in May of 2004, 2005 & 2006 and took the photos shown here. My great grandparents, George & Sara Ann (McCullough) Capehart are buried here as are 3 of their 8 children: Jenny Bell & her husband, Marchus Marion; Rosella Nelson & Clara Viola. Jenny Bell's daughter Blanche and her husband Elmer and their son, Donald are also buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. I lived in this area until I was 16 and didn't realize until the past few years that my great grandparents were buried in this cemetery.
Cemetery Entrance
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George & Sara Ann (McCullough) Capehart
George b. 14 Apr. 1837 -- d. 20 Dec. 1920
Sara b. 10 Jan. 1841 -- d. 3 Apr. 1907
Inscription on stone: "Gone but not forgotten"
Buried in Lot 7
George was the son of Andrew & Letittia (Briggs) Capehart
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Clara Viola Capehart Obituary
b. 7 Jun 1877 -- d. 28 Apr. 1954
She was the daughter of George & Sara Ann (McCullough) Capehart and the sister of Jennie Bell (Capehart) Marion, Rosella (Capehart) Nelson & William Ross Capehart.
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Rosella J. (Capehart) Nelson
b. 10 Aug. 1872 -- d. 13 Aug. 1893
Aged 21Y's. 3 D's.
Buried in Lot 14
She was the daughter of George & Sara Ann (McCullough) Capehart
William Ross Capehart was her twin brother
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The Marion family stone
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Jenny Bell (Capehart) Marion
b. 1 Mar. 1869 -- d. 9 Mar. 1946
Jenny was the daughter of George & Sara Ann (McCullough) Capehart and the siter of Rosella (Capehart) Nelson, Clara Viola Capehart & William Ross Capehart and the wife of Marchus Marion
Elmer R. and Blanche (Marion Severin
Elmer b. 10 Apr. 1895 -- d. 21 Sept. 1962
Blanche b. 29 Mar. 1896 -- d. 1985
Blanche is the daughter of Marion & Jenny Bell (Capehart) Marion
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Elmer's military marker located to the right of their tombstone
Iowa -- PFC CO F 64 Infantry -- World War I
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Donald H. Severin
b. 1 June 1925 -- d. 30 May 1992
Name of living spouse removed
Donald is the son of Elmer R. & Blanche (Marion) Severin
Other side of gravemarker
Donald H. Severin
US Army -- World War II
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