LEE COUNTY IOWA GENEALOGY
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LEE COUNTY CEMETERY INDEX

New to Lee Co Cemeteries August 2007
Pat Morrison & the Olde Fort Genealogy Society have been walking rural cemeteries and updating their records.  Pat has made an index
of all burials and listed them on the 
Olde Fort Website   Go to the   Cemetery Index Page  and follow instructions. If you know of burials and they are not listed please share the names with us.  Everyone works really hard to build the most complete listing possible for Lee Co. and you can help..
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Cemeteries Names & Places
Listing of all of the Cemeteries, their different names and their locations.
County Cemeteries
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Cemetery Lookups
If you don't find your Surname in the Cemetery Lists there are several people willing to do lookups in books they own.  If you don't find anything by doing a search .... remember .... the name may be misspelled. 
Cemetery Lookups
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Abandoned Cemeteries
This page has an Index and the burials for 48 Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.
Abandoned Cemeteries

Most of these Cemeteries and Burial Grounds are no longer cared for.  It is good that they were recorded as early as the late 1960's, as today many stones are unreadable ... if you can even find them.  Let me add that some of these cemeteries are now being cleaned up and repaired by individuals or a newly organized cemetery group. 
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WPA Index Page
WPA Cemetery Records
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Oakland Cemetery, city of Keokuk
Transcribed and Contributed by Mary Murphy
Blocks 1-39
Blocks A-S
Oakland Cemetery

26 Pages of the Old Catholic Cemetery, done alphabetically
Old Catholic Cemetery
New Catholic Cemetery

Hebrew Cemetery
Burials 1861-1969

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Cemeteries contributed to the site

Cemetery Listings from Debbie Kohl
(Partial Listings)
Denmark Cemetery
Hickory Grove Cemetery   Ft Madison
Fairview

Croton Cemetery
Croton, village in Van Buren Twp

Galland Cemetery
Galland, village in Montrose Twp

Old City Cemetery
Franklin, town in Franklin Twp

Embury Cemetery

Van Buren Twp

Everhardt Cemetery
Charleston Twp

Mennonite Cemetery
Donnellson, Iowa

Evangelical Cemetery
Donnellson, Iowa
Evangelical A thru H
Evangelical  I thru W

Montrose, Montrose Twp
Montrose Cemetery Plat

Scandinavian Cemetery
All Burials
Norwegian Burials
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Other Abandoned or Lost Cemeteries

Blondeau Street Cemetery
1844
“The pioneer church of the village was of course Roman Catholic. A lot had been given on the corner of Blondeau and Second streets, upon which to build a church; meantime a house of two rooms was put up on the corner of the lot at the rear and here masses were said, one of the rooms being fitted up as a chapel, the priest living in the other. Weddings were also solemnized in the small chapel, one of which I attended, that of Elizabeth Hunt and Henry Louis [De Louis], my cousin and myself being the only witnesses. . . . 
“The lots surrounding the Church were used as a cem­etery. On one occasion twenty-five men were buried there who were killed by the explosion of the steamboat Mechanic in their endeavors to get off a large rock in the first chain of the rapids, from which circumstance it took the name of Mechanic rock.

Quarry Cemetery
 
The newest abandoned cemetery found in the county.  I will try to find out more. One stone up on the hill reads:  Mary A.  Billups, daughter of E. & E.A. Billiups, died: Sept 20, 1859; age 3 years.
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Cemetery Entrance 
Photos
 
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Mary Murphy Compiled and Contributed several of the following cemeteries including the Keokuk Oakland Cemeteries.  She has her name on the
pages as a contact person ___ Mary asked that her email address be taken off until further notice
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