Muscatine County Iowa Cemetery Records

The research for this cemetery was compiled and submitted by Eleanor B. McCleary.

A portion of the land now known as Greenwood Cemetery was formerly the homestead of John B. Nyenhuis. It is believed that when his daughter, Sena, died in 1881 that John B. Nyenhuis selected an area, on his land, to established a private family cemetery.

Muscatine County Recorders’ Office has two Plat Maps on record. The first one was titled: Plat of the Nyenhuis Addition to Muscatine Cemetery:

Situated in the S W corner of Out Lot No. 24 in a sub Division of Sections 2 and 3 in Township 76 North Range 2 West of the 5th Principal Meridian – Described as follows – Commencing at the SW corner of said Out Lot – Thence North 201 feet – Then East 133 feet – thence South 212 ft – thence Westwardly along the South line of said Out Lot 133 feet to Beginning – Containing .63 acres.
Survey in May 1886 by JA Mathews City Engineer.
Filed for Record this 31st day of July A.D. 1886 at 10 O’Clock A.M.
Recorded in Book One of Lots page 87 by J.B.Hudson Recorder

This area was surveyed again by Central States Engineering Company in April of 1924. The Re-Plat was titled: Joseph Nyenhuis Addition to Greenwood Cemetery. It was recorded in Book Sixty-three of Lots on page 82.

On August 5, 1958, C. Arthur Nyenhuis, surviving heir of J.B. Nyenhuis estate and his wife Beverly J. Nyenhuis, of Scott County, Iowa…

In consideration of the sum of $1.00 paid by City of Muscatine they sold all of Block One of the Joseph Nyenhuis Addition to Greenwood Cemetery to be used only as a place of burial for the dead.

The Nyenhuis Private Addition was the last of the private cemeteries to come under the management umbrella of Greenwood Cemetery. Unfortunatly their agent did not turn over their family burial records at that time. Documentation has been found on four individuals that imply that they are interred in this lot but because they do not have marked graves, their place of burial is unknown.

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Directions: from Lucas Street, enter Greenwood Cemetery by East Entrance (closest to town). Keep straight on Gateway Avenue. Go up a little hill. Turn left (East) on 24th Street. The Nyenhuis Private Addition is on a raised area surrounded by a cement border.