FAIRVIEW CEMETERY

he land for the Fairview cemetery and Methodist church site was given by George and Henrietta Storck and was recorded April 29, 1871. The cemetery is located in Section 13 of Madison township. Most of the early burials were those of infants. The oldest grave is that of Theodore F. Gabbert buried January 1856. Others include Olive Payton in 1869, infant daughter of B. W. and A. Payton, Carl Rinard, infant son of R. W. and A. J. Rinard in 1870, Cynthia Bonine in 1871, daughter of T. E. and R. E. Bonine and William Fisher in 1872.  Members of the Powell family are also buried there. 

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Source: The Winterset Madisonian - Centennial Edition

              Winterset, Iowa

              July 18, 1956

              Page 7, Column 2  (page 52 in on-line version)

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