County Home Cem, Dallas Co, IA

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County Home Cemetery, also known as Farmer's Cemetery or County Cemetery The last burial recorded was in 1946. The ashes of several homeless men were also interred here. There remains only one stone, that of James Sheckle, who passed from this life in 1885. It is documented that the first patient was admitted to the home in 1870. Therefore there are likely unknown others resting here for which records no longer exist. The Dallas County Hospital was located on these grounds from 1934-1954. Although there are no stones, the following are interred here as verified by Dallas County Records.
Anderson	Gus	12-05-1927
Barker	Jack	01-04-1935
Brewer	August	12-11-1935
Bryan	Thomas	03-26-1934
Bechtold	Sam	05-22-1935
Buell	James	02-07-1935
Burgess	Issac	05-01-1931
Clovis	Mack	03-03-1935
Crouse	Carry	05-21-1933
Duncan	Mary A	06-24-1946
Gascot	Christine	05-14-1931
Hull	Calvin	02-06-1934
Hildebrand	Mary	07-30-1930
Kenworthy	Guslina	03-30-1929
King	Wm	06-21-1934
Laton	Wm	07-06-1935
Meeker	R E	07-18-1931
Mills	Emma	06-29-1921
Palmer	Lyman	07-07-1936
Perry	Sarah	03-03-1929
Sheckle	James	10-03-1895
Smith	Wm	08-12-1940
Steiner	Emma	09-18-1930
Thompson	George	12-19-1934
Trustee	Zachary T	09-27-1935
Wilgone	John	09-27-1935
Wilson	Alma	02-04-1934
Transcribed from the sign posted at the County Home Cemetery by Conni McDaniel Hall and the two stones that were still present, August 13, 2010.

Only two stones were found. They were for:
Brown	Robert	08 Feb 1922	24 Mar 1996
Moore	Thomas J	25 May 1942	09 Oct 1998