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Engledow Cemetery
Section 9, Cedar Township, Mt. Auburn, Benton County, Iowa
Photo of Cemetery

Transcribed by Mark R. Engledow, 2001.
"Other than a couple stones for people who may still be alive, every
stone, marked and unmarked, readable and unreadable, is on this list"

Letters and numbers rendered unreadable by erosion or cracks in the stone are replaced with asterisks.
yr = years; mn = months; dy = days

Row E to W S to N	Last Name	First Name	DOB	DOD	Epitaph	Researcher's Notes		Obit
SE Corner Row 1	Showalter	John W	1852	1885		Eroded
	Hart				GAR	might be listed in the 1880 Veterans
						Small block -- child? Eroded
						Small obelisk
						Eroded
	Kemp	Charles M	1882	1971
		Lucy				Child?
		Lydia		Feb 6 1864		Eroded -- more details, obscured	SAME STONE
		Lucy		Feb 23 1864	24dy
Row 2	IDA	Bell		Sep 2 1879	11mn 1dy Daughter	Eroded
	Myers	Soporona E.		Mar 1* 1870	20yr 7mn Wife of NL Myers
	Rogers	Nathan R	Mar 15 1847	May 1 1886
	Rogers	Clark W	1878	1879
					FATHER
	Wallace	Margaret Leticia	Jan 9 1843	Jun 5 1892	I would not live always no Welcome the tomb	Daughter of James & Eliza	SAME STONE
		James	Aug 22 1819	Mar 20 1876
		Eliza A	July 20 1820	Sep 17 1904
		Leticia
					MOTHER
		Bruce				Born Nov. 17, 1840
Row 3	AMC					Just initials
Row 4	Rogers	Marcia E	Oct 18 1872	Nov 29 1892			PHOTO
	Rogers	Cleora	Apr 23 1847	Nov 24 1920
	Clark	Addie M		Oct 22 1898	45yr 4mn 2dy Wife of W Clark
Row 5						Eroded -- child?
Row 6					FATHER
	Hackett	Nancy		Jun 27 18**	11yr 6mn 27dy	North side	SAME STONE
		Infant		Sep 8 1887	Son of Wm & ME (Bobst?)	East side
	Hackett	George		Sep 8 1885	84yr *mn 1*dy	South side
		Sandra		June 20 18**	Wife of George Hackett	West side
		Nancy			MOTHER
					Our Darling
Row 7	Lane	Lloyd L	Dec 8 1921	Jan 1 1984	Pvt US Army
	Lane	Darlene R	1925	1984
	Miller	Mabel O	1889	1974			PHOTO
	Lane	William C	1889	1968			PHOTO
						Small stone
	Lane	Buela May	1913	1918
						Medium stone
	Lane	Vera Olive	1908	1909
	Lane	Charlotte	Mar 13 1868	Jun 10 1943			PHOTO
	Lane	Thomas J	May 30 1854	Oct 6 1940
						Small stone
	Lane	Hester		Jan 3 1880	58yr 4mn 24dy Wife of James Lane		SAME STONE PHOTO
		James		Jun 19 1905	81yr 10mn 14dy
Inscription for Hester & James Lane:					Our beloved parents from Heaven's Grace Their voices now are stilled And though their bodies slumber here Their souls are safe in Heaven
		Daniel H		Dec 7 1859	7mn 7dy Son of D* & SV Thomas
		Samuel R		Aug 11 1856	1mn 1 dy		SAME STONE PHOTO
		Nancy M		Sep 29, 185*	1yr 5mn *0dy
	Pearsoll	Amanda C	Jan 13 1850	Apr 9 1921		Nee Engledow	PHOTO
	Harris	Esther May	Apr 15 1879	Nov 20 1898	At Rest Daughter of Levi & Amanda Harris		PHOTO
Row 8	Weekley	Viola Gray	1868	1956		Same stone. Other than being the plot next to her first husband David Engledow, I don't know why Viola Gray is on this stone. Lawrence is almost certainly buried elsewhere.	PHOTO
	Weekley	Lovena	1893	1963	WWI
	Weekley	Lawrence	1894	19__
	Engledow	David R		Aug 4 1900	51yr 5mn 19dy	Tablet-shaped stone	PHOTO	OBIT
	Engledow	Malinda		Apr 23 1879	78yr		PHOTO
	Engledow	William R		Nov 19 1879	81yr 11mn 13dy		PHOTO
	WRE					Just initials
		Sarah J		Sep 25 1856	1yr 3 dy
		Francis M(N?)		Jan 30 1856	18yr 11mn Son of W & M Engledow
	EE					Just initials
	MAE					Just initials
		John W		Jul 8 1877	27yr 2mn 20dy		PHOTO
	FME					Just initials
	Engledow	Emanuel		Apr 23, 1899	73yr 3mn Father	Stone podium with open Bible on top	PHOTO	OBIT
	Engledow	Mary A		Dec 7 1905	78yr Mother	Mary's will called for a stone, "not to exceed $35" and identical to David Engledow's -- her lawyer requested permission to spend $100 to purchase one identical to Emanuel's as well as a replacement for Emanuel's decrepit original stone.	PHOTO	OBIT
	Engledow	Hiram C	1856	1928		His death-certificate and obituary say he died in 1932; his headstone says 1928. I don't know why.	PHOTO	OBIT
	Engledow	Bertha		Sep 9 1881	3yr 3mn		SAME STONE PHOTO
	Engledow	Clarence A		Aug 22 1881	1yr 4mn
	Engledow	Emma D	1884	1891			PHOTO
	Engledow	Martha E	1858	1942	GAR		PHOTO
	Goodell	Malinda C	1853	1928			PHOTO
	Goodell	Iolas E	May 23 1878	Jun 9 1912	May He Rest In Peace		PHOTO
Row 9		Anna M			4mn Daughter of Johna & Frank Gestort
		Sarah		Feb 23 1860	27yr 6mn 11dy Wife of Elias Bishop
	Goodman	Infant		Mar 12 1869	*	Broken off and reset in cement -- other details buried
					40yr 2mn 13dy	Top portion broken off and missing
	Gingrich	Abraham				Broken and reset in cement
	Gingrich	Catherine		Nov 17 1887	88yr 2mn 15dy Sacred to the memory of Our Mother	Fancier than the rest of the stones
Row 10	Weisert	Lola Ethel	1902	1972			SAME STONE
		Clifford W	1901	1975
	Weisert	Ronald Dean	1940	1941	Son of Clifford & Ethel Weisert
	Weisert	John F	1867	1933			SAME STONE
		Clara	1883	1945		nee Westcott		OBIT
	Weisert	Harry F	Nov 24 1916	Apr 24 1993	CPL US Marine Corps WWII
	Preston	Koroline	1883	1919	Mother
	Preston
	Preston	Ralph M	1904	1988
	Preston	Lawrence L	Oct 14 1918	Nov 3 1951	Tec4 ORD Dept World War II
Row 11	IEG
	Dawes	Wm F					SAME STONE PHOTO
		Emma
						Unmarked stone
	Weisert	Wm F	1862	1934			PHOTO
	Weisert	John C	Nov 26 1830	Apr 18 1907	I Know That My Redeemer Lives		SAME STONE
		Rosin	Feb 16 1843	Feb 2 1924
	Walther	Christine J	1847	1926	Mother		SAME STONE
		Frederich G	1843	1928	Father
	Walther	Carl C		May 27 1892	17dy Son of F & C Walther
Row 12	Thomas	Anna C	1857	1931	Mother		SAME STONE
		Josiah S	1856	1936	Father
	Thomas	Albert	1889	1966
						Unreadable sandstone
		Emma N		Mar 14 1892	12yr 5mn 23dy Daughter of JS & AC Thomas
	Day	Henry A			GAR  [ Co. C 5th Inf. ]	Probably top & Bottom half of the same stone, broken off and reset side-by-side in cement. No other details readable.
	Day	Thomas G			[ Co. G 13th Inf. - kld. in action Atlanta, GA, Aug. 25, 1864, buried Marietta National Cem. ] ( T G Day, sec. J, site 9712 )
Row 13 on my map worked out to be the driveway where family-lore says one or more nameless hobos are buried in unmarked graves.
Row 14	Westcott	Joseph W	Apr 5 1920	Oct 30 1971	Tec5 1561 Engineer Co. World War II
	Westcott	Elva	1893	1963
	Westcott	William P	1886	1958
	Westcott	Daisy	1915	1918
	Westcott	Inez Fay	1920	1924
	Westcott	Elmer E	Sep 17 1929	Oct 8 1945
	Westcott	Ralph J	1926	1950	American Legion	World War II
	Westcott	Ross E	1932	1955	American Legion
	Westcott	Jake A	1892	1976	Medallion: A bird holding chainlinks labeled FLT in an arc over the letters I00F and 496 under that.	I00F: Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Dove: Peace. FLT: Friendship, Love, and Truth. Lodge number 496.	SAME STONE
		Alma E	1894	1961
Row 15	Stocks	Roy	1916	1994			SAME STONE
		Iola	1910	1992
	Westcott	Levetta M	May 13 1913	May 9 1986			SAME STONE
		Everett D	1894	1975
		Everett D	Apr 9 1894	May 8 1975	PFC US Army World War I	Government-issued stone -- Everett has 2 stones
	Westcott	Clarence Morton	May 13 1913	May 9 1986
	Westcott	Fred	1890	1950			SAME STONE
		Nellie	1888	1935
	Westcott	Mary I	1857	1929	Mother		SAME STONE
		John A	1857	1917	Father
		Bertha	Jul 1877	Feb 1896	Daughter of JH & MI Westcott	East side	SAME STONE
		Ettie	Jun 1879	Aug 1880		North side
		Ettie				Eroded
						Small unreadable obelisk
	Westcoatt	Mark L			Co B 57 PA Inf -- GAR
	Amburn	Anna J			Wife of William Amburn	Broken & reset in cement
	Amburn	William			Sgt. Co. G 13 Iowa Inf -- GAR
	Amburn	Clara E	1876	1954
	Westcott	Dora	Jul 11 1877	Jul 23 1894		East side	SAME STONE
		Louisa	Mar 11 1852	Feb 26 1892	Wife of E.D. Westcott	West side
		Dora				Small eroded stone
	Westcott	Elizabeth	Jul 18 1888	Dec 20 1976	Mother		SAME STONE
		Dora Rose	Jul 13 1911	Sep 7 1911	Daughter
NW Corner	Westcott	Dallas F	1879	1975	Beloved Father

Family-lore holds that every person here has a connection to the Engledow family. I haven't, yet, found that to be the case -- no connection to the Weiserts or, other than my mother's sister marrying a Westcott, no connection to them, either. So far as I know, the Engledow family hasn't owned the cemetery in 100 years or more -- the last mention I have on it, Mary Engledow's obituary from 1905, says the family "used to" own it, and at the time the farm itself was in the hands of her daughter Amanda (nee Engledow, formerly Harris) and (her husband) Pearsoll.

Until I get a hold of the cemetery records, this is as complete as it's going to be. Other than a couple stones for people who may still be alive, every stone, marked and unmarked, readable and unreadable, is on this list. Most of the stones with weather-obscured details are too fragile to rub or expose to chemicals/powders/whatnot -- if anyone knows how to read those w/o causing any further damage, drop me an e-mail and I'll give it a try next summer. Some, though, are far beyond any hope.

Does anyone know who has the records? In the Recorder's office, they said that the trustees for Cedar township might have them, but I don't know who they are. -- MRE

   [Italicized comments are FYI by Mark R Engledow.]

Transcribed by Mark R Engledow.
Copyright © 2001 by Mark R Engledow.
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