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Chester Township Cemetery 
Link to
IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project for Chester Cemetery
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HISTORY -
The first meeting of Chester Burying
Ground Association was held May 28, 1866. The first death was
4-year-old Harry Stockwell in 1864 after he met instant death by
falling under the wheels of a heavy wagon. Burials on the
west
side began in 1906.
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LOCATION - Chester
Township,
Section 9, north of 320 Avenue and 33rd Street, on both east and west
sides of the road. The old part lies on the east side of the
road, the newer on the west.
Google map: 41.841N,
92.718W
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Partial Burial Records
Courtesy of a Volunteer | Chester Cemetery
Burial Records with Gravestone Photos
Surnames Beginning with... | | A - C | D - H | J - R | S - Z |
| Name |
Link to Gravestone
Photo |
| Ahrens, Julia |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043191 |
| Alexander, Earl H |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043198 |
| Alexander, Lottie L |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043199 |
| Armstrong,
Archibald |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043221 |
| Armstrong, Ella A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043220 |
| Armstrong, Peggy
Arlene |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043223 |
| Armstrong, Thomas
Alvin |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043222 |
| Arthalony, James |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1054801 |
| Atwood, Clifford H |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043412 |
| Atwood, David A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047680 |
| Atwood, Isabelle |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047681 |
| Atwood, Orville
LeRoy |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047718 |
| Atwood, William E |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043289 |
| Atwood,
William H |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043381 |
| Atwood, Sisco,
Amaryllis |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=275156 |
| Atwood (Thompson),
Mary A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047890 |
| Bacon, Joshua C |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043189 |
| Bacon, Mary J |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043190 |
| Baker, Mary E |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047683 |
| Barnes, Charles A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1054792 |
| Barnes, Lucretia S |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1054791 |
| Barnes Jr, Charles
A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1054793 |
| Bean, Catherine |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043243 |
| Bean, Irwin A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043257 |
| Bean, Pearl |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043248 |
| Black, Wildon B |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047903 |
| Bradley, Marjorie A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043227 |
| Bradley, Thomas G |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043228 |
| Brownell, Alice |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047736 |
| Buchenau, J.G. |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1054797 |
| BURCH, Esther E. |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1195559 |
| CAMP, Sephanie |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1195801 |
| CARPENTER GNAU,
Ruth |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043400 |
| CARTER, Carrie A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=587661 |
| CARTER, Edward P |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=589070 |
| CARTER, Lucy E |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=589072 |
| CARTER, Lydia C |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=588147 |
| CARTER, Martha M |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=587666 |
| CARTER, Samuel C |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=588146 |
| CARTER, W. A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=587668 |
| CARTER, W. A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=589073 |
| Carter, Williard |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=589071 |
| Clay, Anna |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=421511 |
| Clay, Cora |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=421519 |
| Clement, Ellen L |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047900 |
| Clement, Nettie E |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1047899 |
| Cocking, Charles W. |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043378 |
| Cocking, Clara H |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043377 |
| Cocking, Infant Son |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043379 |
| Comstock, Jerry W |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1195815 |
| Comstock, Joey D |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1195816 |
| Comstock, Robert J |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1195804 |
| Cooling, Philip
Nathaniel, |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043234 |
| Cooling, Richard A |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043235 |
| Cooling, Sarah
JoAnn |
https://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=1043233 |
Chester Cemetery Partial Burial Records
(Transcriptions courtesy of:
ssmorris@mtco.com,
20 Sep 2008)
| Name | DOB | DOD | Notes | | Carter, Lydia | 22 Sep 1847 in IA | 14 Jan 1936 | dau of Eli Chase & Nancy J . Dougherty | | Carter, Samuel Cornelius | 9 Sep 1841 | 16 Mar 1924 | | | Clay, Anna | 20 Nov 1833 | 29 Nov 1913 | | | Clay, Cora | 4 Mar 1874 | 3 Apr 1897 | dau of J & A
| | Marsh, Mary J. | 11 May 1842
| 8 Sep 1902 | born at Cayuga Co., NY | | Marsh, Pauline | 5 Dec 1885 | | Wife of Thomas
85 yrs 7 mos 16 days
West side of road | | Marsh, Rodney | 19 Nov 1837 | 15 Feb ? | | | Newcomer, Bertha F. | 1891 | 1971 | DAR
Wife of Chester | | Newcomer, Catherine | 10 Nov 1876 | | 68 yrs, 6 mos, 21 days
Wife of Jacob | | Newcomer, Charley O. | 23 May 1885 | 21 Sep 1946 | Son of John & Laura | | Newcomer, Chester J. | 1889 | 1955 | Son of John & Laura | | Newcomer, Frank | 1909 | 1963 | Son of John & Laura | | Newcomer, Grace E. | 28 Sep 1886 | 11 May 1936 | Wife of Charley O. | | Newcomer, Infant | | | Son of Edward & Nellie | | Newcomer, Infant | 9 Jun 1908 | | Dau of Edward & Nellie | | Newcomer, John | 1846 | 1937 | | | Newcomer, Joseph | 18 Mar 1838 | 21 Apr 1925 | | | Newcomer, Laura E. | 1854 | 1920 | Wife of John | | Newcomer, Lucile | | 1908 | Wife of Frank | | Newcomer, Lydia | 29 Jan 1878 | 29 Oct 1892 | On same marker with dau of Jos & Mary | | Newcomer, Mary C. | 25 Apr 1858 | 31 May 1894 | | | Phillips, Catherine E. | 1842 | 1926 | Mother | | Phillips, Donald Dean | | 12 Mar 1936 | Son of Leo & Harriet
| | Phillips, Earl T. | 26 Feb 1867 | 28 Jun 1897 | Son of M. E. & N. V. Phillips | | Phillips, Hazel E. | | 26 Oct 1899 | 5 yrs, 8 days
Dau of L.P. & Estella | | Simpson, Lottie. | 4 May 1862 | 26 Jan 1899 | (nee Sisco) | | Sisco, Obed | 14 Oct 1805 | 1 Mar 1898 | Co. H. 106 Reg NY Vol GAR
(stone illegible) |
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