Deeter Family and Cemetery

BROWN, BUCKLIN, DEETER, DODD, HICKMAN, LEIDER, LUING, MINEAR, RUNYAN, RUNYON, SUTTON

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Date: 2/7/2016 at 16:20:54

Deeter Family and Cemetery
The Deeter family settled in the area southeast of Collins, prior to the year 1856. One of the few gravestones in the Old Deeter cemetery bears the date 1859. (Deeter Cemetery: SE ¼ Sec. 55, Collins Township, Story County)
Andrew Deeter and William Deeter, Sr., were brothers. William, born Oct. 17, 1779, died Jan. 27, 1859. He married Mary Deeter, died at the age of 86 years, 8 months, and 17 days. Both buried in the Deeter Cemetery south of West Point School House.
Andrew Deeter was the father of Robert Deeter, who lives around Baxter. His (Robert’s) children were Ella Bucklin, Anderson Deeter, Mary Luing born June 25, died May 23, 1864, Emma Sutton born May 19, 1883, died Feb. 12, 1965, Pearl Brown, Rosa Hickman, Lou Deeter born May 16, 1892, Lee Deeter. Robert’s wife was Martha.
William’s (Sr.) sons were born: Augustus, Aaron Washington, Sidney C. Deeter, Anderson Deeter. William’s wife was Hattie Minear.
Source: Remember When – Collins & Collins Township (1848-1976), page 133

Deeter Cemetery
(Copied from Sue Cochran’s Records)
1. Deeter, Infant daughter of S. C. & S. E. Deeter died 20 Dec. 1870
2. Cornelius Runyon died 28 Dec. 18__, age 67 years 11 months
3. Danna, son of S. C. & S. E. Deeter died 5 Dec. 1882, age 1 year 6 months 5 days
4. Mary M., wife of William Deeter died 31 Dec. 1889 age 86 years 8 months 17 days
5. ____ died 2 May 1858 age 30 years 10 days
6. ____ white stone – no markings
7. ____ ”a fair bud to earth to blossom in Heaven”

Deeter Cemetery
(Copied from the book “As It Was Written”, page 67
Three miles east of Highway 65 on the Jasper-Story County line, and east of Earl Dodd’s, lies what remains of an old graveyard, known as the Deeter Cemetery.
Outside a fence, on an embankment, are five marked graves, but little is known of others existing years ago, before the road was changed.
The five markers indicate the graves of
1. Andrew Deeter, died in 1859
2. Mary, his wife, age 86 years (
3. Infant daughter of S. C. & S. E. Deeter, died Dec. 28, 1870
4. Danna, son of S. C & S. E. Deeter, died Dec. 5, 1882 age 1 year & 6 months
5. Cornelius Runyan, died in 1888
Considered to be an abandoned cemetery, but identified with the history of our early settlers, it causes us to wonder about the lives of the Deeter family and the part they played in the settlement of Iowa.
(Notice the slight differences in the Deeter Cemetery records)
Source: Catherine Henderson’s papers

Findagrave lists the following 5 burials:
1. Deeter, Anderson/Anson b. 1828 d. May 2, 1858 age 30 years
2. Deeter, Danna b. unknown d. Dec. 5, 1882
3. Deeter, infant daughter b. unknown d. Dec. 28, 1870 Infant daughter of S.C. and S.E. Deeter (Sydney and Susan (Runyon) Deeter) [Information from "As it was Written" article "Deeter Cemetery" on page 67.]
4. Deeter, Mary Magdalene Leider b. 1803 d. Dec. 31, 1889 Wife of William Deeter. She was aged 86 years, 8 months and is buried beside her husband in the Deeter Cemetery, Jasper Co., Iowa
5. Runyon, Cornelius b. 1818 in Virginia d. 1885 Cornelius Runyon is the father-in-law of Sidney C. Deeter who married Sarah Elizabeth Runyon in 1865. (They divorced in 1900.) His headstone is no longer found in the cemetery, only 3 stones are left. My source is the Story County Iowa Index to Grave Marker Inscriptions authored by the Story County Iowa Genealogical Society and published by the Iowa Genealogical Society as 'Story County Vol VII'