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The Guss Cemetery (section 23)
was in an early day called the Brown Cemetery because that was the
name of the people who gave the land for the cemetery. It has
been called Guss since in the 1930's or 1940's.
The Maple Grove Methodist Church is at Guss and still active. Please look at the picture under "photos" of an early-day Guss. There were maple trees planted from the south side of Guss to the present day road of J20 north of the cemetery. The cemetery, however, was never a part of the Maple Grove Methodist Church. I talked to John McCoy in 1969
and he told me about a fairly good sized cemetery he
remembered in section 18. Families were supposedly notified that
they should move graves from this cemetery and some were
moved to North Grove in Page County. Numerous pieces
of broken tombstones have been found at the site. There were a couple of
tombstones of children of Nathan and Sarah Wilcox near where
Kevin Barr lives. They had been
buried in their yard. Stone of Laura Wilcox has since been moved to North Grove Cemetery in Page County.
In section 32, many maps mark
a cemetery. No one knows exactly where these burials were.
Normalee Miller's father said that as a child he remembered going
to a funeral with burial there. In the corner of sections 28,
29, 32 and 33, there was a "shanty- town" of miners about a
hundred years ago. There are still foundation lines visible now,
a well, and planted evergreen trees in this area. The road that
did go to that area from the south has long since been closed.
This is about a mile from where
I live and we ride horses back in there sometimes.
The Pierce family cemetery is
in section 8. In 1970, I talked to Dan Pierce in Villisca,
Iowa who told me what he knew of this family burial. Dan said
that his father, Gibson Pierce, Gibson's first wife, Jane Mallery,
their son Whipple Pierce (died Apr 1, 1891), one of their
daughters (he thought Carrie who married John Kunce), several
other of their children who died at birth, and perhaps others
were buried there. His father definitely expressed the
desire to be buried on his own farm and there he remains with his
family. There were never any tombstones at these burials. There also were three burials
in section 30 and when I find my notes on them, I'll
add it here...Pat |
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