The land for the Hooten cemetery in Section 8 of Lincoln township was given by Joshua Gentry, and recorded February 11, 1882.
The first burial was October 15, 1851, a daughter of W. H. and Sarah Harmon. Others in the Harmon family are buried there also. Other early burials were Thomas
Hooten, June 1852, Thomas J. Hooten, 1853, Thomas Howard, 1852, Philinda Howard, 1871 and Eleanor Chastain, 1853, Lovice
Bertholf, 1856, Mary Vancil, 1853. Other family plots in Hooten cemetery in addition to the above are the
Roys, Longenakers, Gentrys, Grahams and Moores.
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Source:
The Winterset Madisonian - Centennial Edition
Winterset, Iowa
July 18, 1956
Page 7, Columns 1 & 2 (page 52 in on-line version)
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