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Old County Home Cemetery

Des Moines County, Iowa, USA

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    Coordinates: 40.80438, -91.20405
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Located in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 4, Township 69 North, Range 3 West, Union Township.

Also known as the Poor Farm Cemetery.

This cemetery has been designated a Pioneer Cemetery by the Des Moines County, Iowa Pioneer Cemetery Commission. It is inaccessible due it's location within the boundaries of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant.

There is no known list of burials for this cemetery. If you make a memorial for this cemetery, please show some kind a proof in the bio section of the death at the poor farm or county home and check for a burial in other Des Moines Co., IA Find a Grave cemeteries.

This Find a Grave cemetery will serve as a cenotaph for the memorials established here unless another cemetery is found to be the actual burial place at some future date.

Burlington Hawk Eye, Sept. 17, 1869, p. 4

At the Des Moines county Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, September 15, 1869 the following report was offered by Mr. Bryson:

"We your committee on poor farm and paupers, appointed to select and locate a place to be used as a burying ground on the poor farm, have selected the south-east corner of the poor farm and have instructed Mr. Snelson to bury the dead in regular files in order to keep a better record.
Signed, John Bryson
Chairman

For more information on this cemetery see http://www.iagenweb.org/desmoines/Cemeteries/OldCountyHome.htm

















Located in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 4, Township 69 North, Range 3 West, Union Township.

Also known as the Poor Farm Cemetery.

This cemetery has been designated a Pioneer Cemetery by the Des Moines County, Iowa Pioneer Cemetery Commission. It is inaccessible due it's location within the boundaries of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant.

There is no known list of burials for this cemetery. If you make a memorial for this cemetery, please show some kind a proof in the bio section of the death at the poor farm or county home and check for a burial in other Des Moines Co., IA Find a Grave cemeteries.

This Find a Grave cemetery will serve as a cenotaph for the memorials established here unless another cemetery is found to be the actual burial place at some future date.

Burlington Hawk Eye, Sept. 17, 1869, p. 4

At the Des Moines county Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, September 15, 1869 the following report was offered by Mr. Bryson:

"We your committee on poor farm and paupers, appointed to select and locate a place to be used as a burying ground on the poor farm, have selected the south-east corner of the poor farm and have instructed Mr. Snelson to bury the dead in regular files in order to keep a better record.
Signed, John Bryson
Chairman

For more information on this cemetery see http://www.iagenweb.org/desmoines/Cemeteries/OldCountyHome.htm

















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