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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 sign in the yard which was placed
there without the authorization, permission, or knowledge of the
cemetery board says Maple Grove.The name of this cemetery is not nor
ever has been Maple Grove.
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
Chet Kendrick lives. They had been
buried in their yard.
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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