Cemeteries in Henry
County
© Copyright 2003 by
Jean Leeper
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Construction 
begun in Oct 2003
begun in Oct 2003My clickable listing,
below, is by townships.
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.
E-mail
Jean
Leeper.
E-mail
Jean
Leeper.
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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.
Baltimore Township (map)
+ Abbe or Baltimore ......... (1870 map of area)
+ Badley - was in section 7, Augusta Township, Des Moines County, Iowa
+ Beery ......... (1870 map of area)
Bethany, Hussy or Shelledy
Lowell
Pickle
Pleasant Grove
Canaan Township (map)
+ ? in section 5 (may be the one in section 8)
+ ? in section 8 (see 1870 Plat map)
Center Township (map)
Abraham or Elwood -------- (1870 map of area)
+ Bethel or Barton
+ Faulkner
Forest Home
+ Irishtown (Old Catholic)
Mental Health Institute
+ Mt. Pleasant Old City
Pleasant Hill
+ Robinson - Is still there. Took new pictures April 4, 2005. Was once part of a Boy Scout Camp.
St. Alphonsus (Catholic)
+ Willeford
Jackson Township (map)
+ Boyleston ------- (1870 map of area)
+ Carnahan ------- (1870 map of area)
+ East Grove (Quaker)
+ Greenwood (Woods) Maybe two burials spot unknown
+ Hicks (Quaker) ------- (1870 map of area)
+ Hunting ---- Family does not remember any stones.
+ Old Becker Farm Burials (??? where)
+ Pickard
Jefferson Township (map)
Center or Noble pictures ------- (Norma Jennings's listing of burials)
Cottonwood pictures ------- (Norma Jennings's pictures and listings)
Finley Chapel pictures ------- (Norma Jennings's history of)
+ Haynes pictures ------- Listing of Burials
+ Kurtz/McClinic pictures ------- Listing of Burials
+ Old Baptist
+ Mt. Ayr ---- Used to be a church and cemetery, destroyed.
+ Shively/Neff pictures -------Listing of Burials
Sugar Creek
Wayland
Just north of Jefferson Township and in Washington County.
Eicher
North Hill
Marion Township (map)
+ Ebeneezer or Wesley ------- (1870 map of area)
Hickory Grove
+ Leach or Traxler ------- (1870 map of area)
+ Menefee ------- Site lost - may be in pond or taken by bypass.
Oak Grove or Stringtown ......... (1870 map of area)
+ Scott ------- (1870 map of area) Destroyed and farmed over.
+ Wilbourne or Wellbourne - One stone.
+ 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.
Brooks-Nurgen
Burge
+ Farlow-Reese-Hardin or Flint (Pictures of all stones to go up soon)
Ferrell-Farrell
Salem Township (map)
Cedar Creek Friends
Hillsboro
Salem South (Friends)
Salem East
Scott Township (map)
+ Hochreiter or Kepper ....... (1870 map of area)
+ Richie or Ritchey ...... (1870 map of area)