Mills County, Iowa


Russell Family Burials on Salyers Farm
Anderson Township
Section 19, Mills County, Iowa

There were burials on the Russell family farm, now the Salyers farm, in Section 19, West Part of Anderson Township. One stone only has weathered the years:

RUSSELL, Robert, died 12 Nov 1862, 47y 10m 4d

How many others are buried there is not known, but probably Sorina, the wife of Robert Russell. The farm was sold in 1874, by six heirs of Robert and Sorina Russell.

Tommy Salyers, of Malvern, recalls his family telling of others buried there, who were traveling in a covered wagon and that some graves were moved a number of years ago to another county.

Source: Adapted from The Mills County Cemetery Book, transcribed by Bette Byers

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