Dillman Cemetery

DILLMAN CEMETERY is located on the north side of the southeast quarter of Section 18 of Jackson Township. The cemetery, in a pasture on a hillside overlooking Interstate 35, is about 1/4 mile north of the St. Mary's exit. It is one mile south and 2-1/4 miles west of St. Mary's, Iowa.

The Dillman Cemetery was used as a family cemetery from 1859-1863. David Dillman and his wife Rebecca, for the sum of $5.00 deeded to John Byars, John Hollingsworth and Henry D. Banta, trustees of Jackson Township, the tract of land in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Jackson Township on Ocrober 24, 1859, being 12 rods by 4 rods, containing 1/3 acre. This land was for use as a burying ground and is recorded in Deed Book L page 286.

The first burial was a child of David Dillman's that died on July 2, 1859. Daniel, son of John and A. Byars was the last burial in 1863. It was said that a Franklin child was buried at Dillman Cemetery also, and that Mr. Franklin was a brother of Mrs. Byars. Mr. Hollingsworth and his child were moved from Dillman Cemetery to St. Charles Cemetery.

The Dillmans went to Norwalk, California about 1893, and the Byars family followed in 1896.

Cemetery and Death Records of Warren County, Iowa, Warren County Genealogical Society, Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri: 1980.

View records submitted to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project for Dillman Cemetery.