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| Excerpt from Years To Remember, Chapter IV - Cemeteries, page 37: "Mound cemetery is located midway between Watkins and Norway and at one time was used as an Indian burial ground. The first graves are well over one hundred years old. The land was owned by the Ira Tafts and they had named the mounds for three members of their family, Emily, Ruhama and Jane.
One day while walking over the mounds, Ruhama Taft remarked as she stood midway on the mound named for her, "This would be a most peaceful place to sleep", and so part of that place became "Mound Cemetery". The spot she thought so peaceful was fenced in for the family burying ground, and an iron fence set in native stone encloses it, and thus became a cemetery within a cemetery. Among the first known buried there are Ira Taft, 1875, Mrs, Ira Taft, 1859, and their daughter Jane Mason, 1862, and John Doolittle, 1872." |
| Last Name | First Name | Birth Date | Death Date | Epitaph |  |
Obit | Comments |
| Bower | Dorothea | July 20, 1865 | Feb. 10, 1897 | Wife of John A. Bower | PHOTO | ||
| Bower | Elizabeth Ann | June 26, 1828 | Apr 15, 1901 | Wife of John Bower | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Bower | John | Sept. 21, 1831 | Aug. 25, 1911 | ||||
| Bower | Hannah | Apr 30, 1880 | Aged ?0 Years | PHOTO | |||
| Bower | Sarah J. | 1831 | 1913 | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| William | 1828 | 1921 | |||||
| Buck | John M. | 1850 | 1928 | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Buck | Jane R. | 1862 | 1958 | ||||
| Charles | Capt. Jas. C. | Feb. 22, 1870 | Aged 40 y'rs 14 d's | PHOTO | |||
| Clark | James | Mar. 3, 1860 | Aged 73 Years | PHOTO | |||
| Clark | Margaret C. | Apr 8, 1831 | July 8, 1900 | Wife of William Clark | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Clark | William | Aug. 15, 1828 | Dec. 7, 1901 | ||||
| Fowler | Ebenezer M. | May 18, 1881 | Our Father. Aged 64? yr's 7 mo's 6 d's |
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| Fowler | Lewis M. | Oct. 12, 1895 | Aged 48 Ys. 11 Ms. 12 Ds. | PHOTO | |||
| Fowler | Otilla E. | Jan. 19, 1907 | Our Mother. Aged 88 yrs. 7 mos. 26 ds. |
PHOTO | |||
| Hoyt | John C. | Feb. 16, 1878 | 1958 | OBIT | |||
| Hoyt | John C. | Mar. 29, 1848 or 1847 | Nov. 27, 1916 | OBIT | |||
| Hoyt | Mary K. | April 26, 1852 | Feb. 17, 1888 | OBIT | nee Lacher | ||
| Hoyt | Walter R. | May 19, 1894 | July 31, 1940 | OBIT | |||
| Kimm | Albert | Aug. 30, 1888 | Oct. 1918 | PHOTO | |||
| Kimm | Delia | June 1, 1896 | Mar. 8, 1901 | Dau of C. H. & Emma Kimm | PHOTO | ||
| Kimm | Caroline | Aug. 29, 1851 | July 3, 1943 | OBIT | nee Schneider | ||
| Kimm | Justus H. | Sept. 11, 1839 | Sept. 11, 1931 | OBIT | |||
| Maag | David S | May 11, 1853 | Oct 11, 1917 | PHOTO | |||
| Mayhew | Alma | Apr 15, 1881 | June 4, 1910 | Wife of E. R. Mayhew | PHOTO | ||
| Mayhew | Bernice | May 18, 1910 | Dec. 30, 1912 | Dau. of E. R. & Alma Mayhew | PHOTO | ||
| Mayhew | Clarissa J. | June 24, 1866 | May 29, 1936 | OBIT | nee Miner | ||
| Mayhew | Elizabeth J. | July 18, 1847 | Apr 29, 1911 | Wife of O. Mayhew | PHOTO | ||
| Mayhew | Elmer R. | Dec. 2, 1878 | Sept. 26, 1960 | PHOTO | |||
| Mayhew | Osander | Dec. 12, 1844 | Mar. 2, 1927 | PHOTO | |||
| McNee | Lena |
April 11, 1875 | Nov. 16, 1955 | OBIT | nee Newton | ||
| McNee | Norman M. | Dec. 17, 1866 | May 1949 | OBIT | |||
| Montague | William M. | Mar. 4, 1897 | Mar. 13, 1933 | Iowa, Corp. 133 Inf. 34 Div. | PHOTO | ||
| Pirie | Hans | Feb. 15, 1863 | Jan. 5, 1939 | OBIT | |||
| Springer | Eliza J. | Apr 30, 1826 | Dec. 13, 1883 | Wife of Jacob Springer. Born Uniontown, PA. Died Watkins, Iowa. |
SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Springer | Jacob | Jan. 21, 1824 | May 14, 1911 | Born Fayette Co. PA. Died Benton Co, Iowa. |
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| Springer | Eugene B. | Jan. 23, 1846 | July 11, 1865 | PHOTO | Pvt. Co H 2nd IA Cav. | ||
| Springer | Thomas H. | Sept. 25, 1837 | Sept. 24, 1887 | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Springer | Amelia | Nov. 25, 1837 | May 10, 1904 | Wife of T. H. Springer. Born Chillicothe, Ohio. Died Mt. Vernon, Iowa. |
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| Wittenburg | Edward C | Feb 24, 1925 | Oct 9, 2006 | PHOTO | |||
| Wittenburg | William Carl | Aug 21, 1921 | Dec 23, 1988 | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Bernice Lillian | Oct 23, 1925 | Dec 21, 2007 | nee Miller | ||||
| Wittenburg | William, Sr. | Jul 1, 1887 | Nov 20, 1973 | SAME STONE PHOTO |
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| Jessie Agnes | Apr 8, 1894 | Dec 16, 1983 | nee Buch | ||||
| Zornig | Annine M. | May 22, 1855 | Dec. 9, 1935 | nee Haupt; w/o Marx Heinrich Zornig | |||
| Zornig | Marx Henry | Jan. 22, 1843 | Aug. 20, 1931 |
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