Iowa County Cemetery Stones and History 1844-1975 (manuscript) by Pauline Lillie

                         MAKE TREE CEMETERY                           p. 1

                               History by Pauline Lillie (Marengo Twp.)


Located;
Section 32 Township 81, Range 11, four miles west of Marengo 
On Hy. 212; South - one mile- North of the Iowa Valley Horse 
Stables- part of land owned by them to-day (1976)

History;
First I heard of a cemetery having been up there was in 1966, from 
Iva Beadshear who lived in Section 30 (2 mi. west) and told me of 
one big stone that of Lydia Nichlson, who was buried there That 
some were moved to Marengo and Koszta cemeteries; No one moved her 
stone, so it was brought over to an Uncle (Sam Nichlson) who lived 
across the road from Iva Beadshear in Honey Creek twp. Sec. 36; 
Stone was deumped off into their chicken yard, where it lay for 
years until Mrs. Nichlson had it moved out in back of farm into 
a grassway and covered.

Another stone was in the barn, name of Johnson who owned the land 
at one time. My informer remembered it being there and thought it 
probably was that of Jas. Johnson or wife. Benjamin F. Tompkins 
married Jeanette Johnson in 1861; Descendants of this family live 
here to-day. That the cemetery was across the road and located near 
a large grove of red maple trees.

For this reason I named the cemetery that- for want of anything 
better. Have done no research into background of families, and they 
do their own.

Remarks;
To-day it is all a cultivated field, and in my opinion most of the 
bodies still are there, for early days they did not embalm, and then
many would not have stones, only slabs.

To give point of time for earliest burial is impossible- my guess 
would be from 1860 - to 1900 with removal probably before 1920.


Researched - Limited by Pauline Lillie 



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