Halterman Cemetery

HALTERMAN CEMETERY was located in Palmyra Township, T76N, R23W, section 1 (across the road from Linn Grove School House). The cemetery no longer exists.

Between 1850 and 1860, John Halterman lost his wife and four children to typhoid fever. The five Haltermans were buried in walnut caskets on the Halterman farm. A short time later, Hannah Nicholls, the baby daughter of Mr. Halterman's friend, Jeff Nicholls, died, and the little girl was buried beside the Haltermans. John Halterman saved three of his children and moved to Story County where he remarried and raised a large family.

In the late 1920s permission was granted for the area around Halterman Cemetery to be farmed. The graves of the five Haltermans were moved to Palmyra Cemetery. The Nicholls family did not want Hannah's grave moved, so they had the headstone buried below farming level, above the casket. The ground has been farmed for many years.

Sources:
(1). Warren County Genealogical Society. Cemetery and death records of Warren County, Iowa. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1980.
(2). Atlas of Warren County, Iowa, 1902-1903, shown on map entitled "Lincoln and Palmyra" Townships (online at the University of Iowa)