Page County, Iowa: WPA Grave Records index

Page County, Iowa WPA Grave Record - 1940

transcribed by Pat Combs O'Dell: genpat@netins.net

The Work Projects Administration was organized to give employment to people who otherwise did not have a job. There are many mistakes in this work and there are lots of clues. They not only went to cemeteries, but may also have talked to sextons, looked at obituaries, checked veteran's records and other sources we do not know about. They did not document where they found information so there is data in this of unknown origin. These dates are probably not what is exactly on the stone, but this is what the WPA record says.

Note: Snow Hill, Plum Thicket, and State Hospital tombstones are not in this list.

Note also: I just realized that I had not typed any stones for Rose Hill/Cagley cemetery. Checking the records, some of them are listed under Rose Hill/Shenandoah and many of them don't seem to be in here at all. Rose Hill (or Cagley) Cemetery is in Valley Township section 31. That stone copy will be typed in the composite cemetery record that I'm preparing.

Abbey - Ammons

Anderson

Andray - Ayres

Babb - Baker

Balding - Beecher

Beery - Bevington

Bieghler - Boynton

Bracken - Brown

Brownfield - Byerly

Cabeen - Cantrall

Cardiff - Carver

Case - Clipston