Cemeteries of Clinton Co., IA
When visiting a cemetery, most likely all you will find are birth and death dates but, if you are fortunate, cemetery tombstones or sexton's records may also provide you with your ancestor's age at death, name of spouse, names of children, maiden name(s) and, occasionally, their birth place. Tombstones may also have symbols or insignias indicating military service and social or religious affiliations.
Check closely the names and info on those buried in the same plot as your ancestor or in near-by plots -- these may be relatives.
Finding the final resting place for your ancestor's can, sometimes, be quite a challenge. The Friends of Clinton County Family History have been re-walking the cemeteries in Clinton Co., IA and have updated info on many of them. Most of the data comes from the tombstones along with sexton's records, obits and death records from the courthouse. They have graciously agreed to let us put an index online of the info they have gathered.
Cemetery Locations
Numbered Cemetery Map. Click on the map for a larger view. The numbers on the map correspond with the numbers on the list of cemeteries.
Cemetery Locations. This wonderful map was done by Art Mooney.
Cemetery Look-ups
When asking for help, PLEASE keep in mind that there are 80+ cemeteries. We have most of them online. Search them first. Do anything you need to do to find the location before asking for a look-up. Usually, you request a cemetery look-up to find the birth and/or death date, BUT, If you know the date of death, Send for a DEATH CERTIFICATE from the courthouse or AN OBITUARY from the library. You should have one for your records anyway.
The Friends of Clinton County Family History group have been re-walking the cemeteries and have updated info on many of them. They have graciously agreed to let us put an index online of all their cemetery info.
The Friends of Clinton County Family History donated copies of all their work to the Clinton County Historical Society for inclusion in their Research Library. For more information, please email Jan Hansen.
The Central Community Gene Society in DeWitt also has lots of information taken from readings they did in the late 70's and early 80's. You can email Ann Soenksen there for help.
I encourage you to write to one of the local genealogical societies for more information or to the courthouse for death, will or probate records.
Also, check out our Look-up volunteers , as some have cemetery info.
- Richard Carstensen: has quite a bit of info on the Clinton Lawn (Clinton Memorial/ Nelson) Cemetery.
- Judi Sayre Berry has a copy of the index to the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Welton.
- The Clinton County/Gateway Genealogical Society has donated the index to Pape Funeral Home to the Clinton Public Library. They also have been indexing other funeral homes. Please visit their Funeral Home Page to see what new ones are being added.
