TAMA COUNTY CEMETERIES
TAMA CO. IAGenWeb PROJECT




Helena Cemetery (Richard Twp) 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
BEALE John 1797 18 May 1876 age 79
BEALE William     G.A.R. Co. F. 28th Iowa Inf. Pvt- *no age or dates
CLEM Adaline 1845 1911 age 66- w/o Thomas Clem
CLEM James W. 1811 11 Nov 1868 age 57
CLEM John   04 Feb 1861  
CLEM Louisa 1811 29 Mar 1861 age 50- w/o James W. Clem
CLEM Thomas 1840 1875 age 35- G.A.R. Pvt. Co. C, 10th Iowa Inf.
DEETER Mary 1833 1913 age 80
DEETER Otto A. 1871 1922 age 51
ELLIOTT Lewis J. 1846 17 Jun 1866 age 20
ENSMINGER Adaline 1829 1899 age 70- w/o George W. Ensminger
ENSMINGER George W. 1825 1910 age 85
ENSMINGER Marcella 14 Mar 1857 02 May 1913 Tama
FLATHERS Willis A.   27 Jan 1856  
HANNA Sarah   09 Feb 1875 age 73
HAND Charles E. 1842 1931 age 89- G.A.R. Pvt. Co. C. 100th Ind. Inf. 1862-65
HAND Edwin S. 1871 01 Apr 1939 age 68
HAND Frances 1953 1902 age 49
HANNA Christopher   09 Mar 1859 age 63
HIATT Anna 1824 08 May 1875 age 51- w/o W. [T.] [rest is cut off]
LEMON James 1833 16 Apr 1855 age 22
MCMILLAN Henry 1833 29 Dec 1854 age 21
MERIT Solomon 1858 10 Feb 1859 age 1
MERRITT John 1834 11 Aug 1862 age 18
MILLER Jacob Y.   02 Oct 1880 age 69
MINK Anthony   23 Dec 1877 age 53
PICKETT Helen E.   16 Apr 1854 age 20
PICKETT Margaret   07 Aug 1879 age 80
PICKETT William   09 Mar 1874 age 88
RICH Alonson P.   12 Mar 1863 age 51
SHUMAKER Elizabeth 12 Sep 1812 15 Mar 1901  
SHUMAKER Frances M. 1843 1913  
SMITH William H. 1842 1930  
STULL Frederick Allen 1907 06 Nov 1937 age 30
VOGAL Lewis 1829 22 Sep 1863 age 34
WALTERS Franklin 1846 02 May 1868 age 22
WALTERS John 1874 1891 age 17
WALTERS John 1849 1905 age 56


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