BAKERS GROVE CEMETERY WPA Records

Contributed for use in IAGenWeb by Von Mings Stachon.

In the late 1930's one of the tasks the WPA was assigned was recording cemeteries. It is unknown whether the WPA workers actually viewed the tombstones or collected the info from death records at the courthouse or from newspaper obituaries. However, even with the inaccuracies in their recordings due to a variety of reasons, we are still grateful for the resource. Since some of the markers are no longer readable, the WPA records may be the only records we have.

Last First Birth Death Comments
BICKET Maggie 01 Aug, 1870 06 Sep, 1898 age 28
BICKET Susie 24 Oct, 1872 07 Jan, 1895 age 23
CARLE Agnes   27 Jul, 1888 age 30
DETLEfSEN Hans 1867 24 Jun, 1895  
GREGG M.   08 Jan, 1884 age 84
HARMON Nathan 1816 01 Jan, 1887 age 71
HARMON Phebe S. 27 Nov, 1813 23 Feb, 1879 age 66... w/o Nathan Harmon
KIBBEE Letta 1825 11 May, 1860 age 35
LODER Ann 1799 21 Feb, 1879 age 80
LODER Catharine   15 Oct, 1882 age 45
LODER Ella R. 15 Mar, 1860 04 Sep, 1888  
LODER George 14 Oct, 1830 21 Dec, 1893  
LODER William 1800 17 Aug, 1884 age 84
LOGAN Marion S. 1860 02 Sep, 1886 age 26... w/o John Logan
SMITH Agnes 1824 05 Nov, 1868 age 44... w/o Jam [sic]
SMITH John 1836 29 Nov, 1877 age 41
SMITH Mary W. 1848 27 Jan, 1881 age 33... w/o John Smith
STEEN Caroline 1857 08 May, 1880 age 23