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This Page Last Updated March 20, 2011
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Riverton Cemetery
Pt. Sw 1/4, Sec 29, Twp 68, Rng. 41
Riverton City, Fremont County, Ia.
Recorded by Barbara and Benjamin H Shull, Chm
Marjorie and Art Barton, Edith and Kenneth Parkison
Marjorie (Mrs Robert) Zach, Susan Foster,
Patricia (Mrs Harold) Shull and Ethel (Mrs Marion ) Aspedon
September 15, 1982
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All the information has been taken from Fremont
County, Iowa Cemtery Records
By The Fremont County Historical Society
Published by Walsworth Publishing Company, Inc
1983
I have attempted for this listing to be exactly as written in
the above publication.
Leigh Ann Owens
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The town of Riverton was laid out in 1870 on land purchased
from Isaac & Coleman Smith. The Riverton Cemetery was platted
in the town plot and a warranty deed for the cemetery was filed
with the Recorder on Jun 9, 1880 and listed John Denison, as
the seller of the land for $250 to the trustees. The cemetery
association received its articles of incorporation in 1879.
The first recorded death was that of William C Davis on Dec
12, 1884, at the age of 37 years. The undertaker was A. Shoemaker
and the attending physician was C. T. Clark. Kimber Shull was
Riverton's first licensed embalmer and his son Earl joined his
father in the business in 1946 and he has kept the record of
all burials since that time. One long-time resident of Riverton
remembers the early days of the cemetery when it was filled
with beautiful wild flowers. This was one of the first cemeteries
where an avenue of flags was developed on each side of the entry
road. Today nearly 60 flags fly on special occasions.
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