Jones County Pioneer Cemetery Commission

12/21/2024

Happy 187th birthday, Jones County, Iowa!!! 🎉🎂🥳

08/18/2024

04/27/2021

Highland Grove cemetery. 2 sons of Philip & Lydia Freeman Yates. Drowned while bathing in Wapsie River. A newspaper article said one body was found. The parents had lost 3 other sons in a brief time, this making 5. Vincent G was 13 yrs and Richard S was 11yrs.

08/07/2020

McClure/Schnepp cemetery, rural Oxford Jct. Please note that this cemetery is very remote and you need permission from landowners before attempting to get there. Often this cemetery was called the "Children's Cemetery" since all but one grave is young children. Rumor is that in those days the children who died were transported down the river in a boat, then unloaded and carried up the hill to be buried. It was believed that the land would hold the disease, while the river would take any germs away. Some stones are just a piece of stone, with no name.

07/18/2020

One of the founding and very active members of the Jones County Pioneer Cemetery Commission.
Our condolences to the family.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HiL5eQoxPBiNE7cV8

Steve Story passed away in Hawkeye, Iowa. The obituary was featured in The Gazette on July 17, 2020.

12/25/2019

11/30/2019

https://blog.billiongraves.com/mayflower-family-gravestones/

Learn more about the Mayflower family gravestones that harbor the memories of the 102 passengers that now have more than 35 million descendants.

08/10/2019

Worked at Edinburgh Pioneer Cemetery this morning.
New grout we are using is working great!
Found a mulberry tree that needs some attention before it falls on some stones.
See listing of burials at
http://iowajones.org/cemetery/Edinburg.htm
The County Home/Poor Farm started about 1840 a few of the burials are from there.

07/30/2019

06/29/2019

Thank you Anamosa FFA for a great job on such a hot day!!!

06/29/2019

Progress is happening!

06/27/2019

Anamosa FFA will begin replacing the fence around Cherry Grove/Mann cemetery on Saturday June 29 at 8 am!! Everyone is welcome! The fence is 20 years old, placed there by Olin FFA and we so appreciate getting it redone!! Stop over and thank them in person!