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| Chandler Cemetery has been designated a Pioneer Cemetery by the Des Moines County Pioneer Cemetery Commission. |
Chandler is in the southwest corner of section 25, Union Township, a block deep on the north side of Old Highway 61 (now Madison Road), just east of the junction of old and new 61. The earliest grave is that of Luther Bailey, d. 1841. There are many unmarked graves and the cemetery is not kept up.
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CHANDLER CEMETERY
transcribed by Becke Dawson
SURNAME |
GIVEN NAME |
BIRTH |
DEATH |
NOTES |
| Badley | Wm. | | 5 Jan 5 1870 | Age 48 |
| Badley | Mary J. (Neff) | Feb 1825 | Jan 1910 | Wife of Wm. |
| Bailey | Samuel | | 5 Feb 1856 | Age 22. Son of J. & S. W. |
| Bailey | Sarah W. | | 19 Nov 1858 | Age 59. Wife of John |
| Bailey | Luther M. | | Dec 27, 1841 | Age 13. Son of J. & S. W. |
| Bailey | John F. | | Apr 17, 1859 | Age 34. Son of John & Sarah W. |
| Burns | Thomas | May 1847 | Feb 1875 | |
| Burns | Mary | Apr 1860 | Aug 1873 | |
| Butler | Mary E. | 1846 | 1929 | (see Elliott) |
| Chandler | Perlia S. | Sep 1836 | Aug 1877 | |
| Chandler | Daniel | | 9 Sep 1870 | Age 84 |
| Chandler | Meh-- | | Sep 1878 | Age 85. Broken stone. Perhaps Mehitable, wife of Daniel |
| Comstock | | | | (see Elliott) |
| Cosgrove | Catherine | Dec 1824 | Oct 1855 | |
| Cosgrove | Eliza | 1813 | 1904 | (see Elliott & Comstock) |
| Elliott | Ann | | 19 Nov 1851 | Age 45 |
| Elliott | Eliza (Cosgrove) | May 1813 | Apr 1904 | Wife of Andrew Elliott. Wife of Joab Comstock |
| Cosgrove | Catherine | | | Sister of Eliza Cosgrove Elliott |
| Elliott | Thomas & Asa Doe | | | Sons of Eliza and Andrew |
| Elliott | Thomas | | 2 May 1864 | Age 28. Died at Marine Hospital, St. Louis |
| Elliott | Asa | | 1885 | Age 35 |
| Elliott | Martha E. | Dec 1849 | Mar 1914 | Wife of D. P. |
| Elliott | Wm. J. | Feb 1843 | Dec 1918 | Company M 7th IVC |
| Elliott | Mary E. (Butler) | Dec 1846 | Jan 1929 | Wife of Wm. J. |
| Funckhauser | P. | | Sep 1880 | Age 56 |
| Furrow | Ethel | Aug 1895 | Aug 1895 | One day old. Dau of J. C & E. A. |
| Misener | Arthur | | 2 Oct 1889 | Age 3 |
| Misener | Albert | | 8 Oct 1889 | Age 3 (twins?) |
| Misener | Anna | | 12 Oct 1889 | Age 2 |
| Misener | Johnnie T. | | 20 Oct 1889 | Age 6 |
| Misener | J. B. | | 30 Dec 1903 | Age 46 |
| Misener | Catherine A. | Sep 1857 | Dec 1900 | |
| Neff | Mary J. | 1825 | 1910 | (see Badley) |
| Peck | Comfort | | 16 Aug 1865 | Age 51 |
| Peck | Emily H. | | 23 Apr 1889 | Age 73. Wife of C. |
| Thomas | Edwin | | 2 Oct 1855 | Age 11 days. Son of C. & E. M. |
| Roscum | Jessie | 27 Nov 1820 | 15 May 1923 | |
| Roscum | David | 1865 | 1939 | |
| Roscum | John | | Feb 1889 | Age 27y, 11m, 12d |
| | Henry | | 14 Sep 1879 | In the 63rd year of his age |
| Rynerd | Dora | | 26 Nov 1893 | Age 57 |
| Thompson | Ray | 15 Dec 1916 | 6 Mar 1917 | Son of James & Lillie |
| Weilbrenner | Elizabeth | 9 Nov 1806 | 28 Sept 1887 | Wife of John |
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