Monroe County, Iowa WPA Cemetery Records Submitted to the USGenWeb Project Archives by Stephen Stewart on October 3, 1998. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ________________________________________________________ NOTE: For more information on Monroe County, Iowa Please visit the Monroe County, IAGenWeb page at http://iagenweb.org/monroe/ ________________________________________________________ During 1937/38, Monroe County WPA workers audited all the known cemeteries in the county and took a census of all adults buried in the county at the time. I have not pursued the reason why children were not included. The following page links contain the complete dataset from that audit. The dataset compiled here has been entered in a database by Virginia Stewart from copies of hand typed and alphabetized data procured from Sarah Hindman. Sarah indicated that she received them from one of the original auditors. No attempt has been made to verify all of the data, and we presume that over 50 years of copies, new mistakes will have been introduced and original mistakes propagated. LAST FIRST BORN DIED CEM TOWN NOTES VALENTINE Charles 1861 1920/4/26 Oakview Troy lot 7 VALERO Andrew 1861 1911/12/10 St. Marys Troy lot 11 blk 3 (husband of Mary) VALERO Anna 1899/2/19 1919/9/15 St. Marys Troy lot 1 blk 7 VALKELBERG Herbert A. 1859 1923/9/2 Oakview Troy VAN AUKUM Angelia 1815 1899/6/2 Methodist Jackson VAN BUSKIRK James 1828 1883/3/7 Union Chapel Troy Co. K 15th Iowa Infantry VAN CLEAVE Chas. H. 1863 1930/9/5 Oakview Troy lot 39 VAN CLEAVE Eliza A. 1855 1929/1/22 Eslinger Urbana VAN CLEAVE Emery Lee 1878 1927/6/21 Blakesburg Blakesburg VAN CLEAVE Hannah 1833 1928/12/24 Eslinger Urbana VAN CLEAVE Hiram 1798 1871/4/30 Blakesburg Blakesburg lot old part VAN CLEAVE Ina 1863 1907/11/24 Blakesburg Blakesburg VAN CLEAVE Minnie V. 1874 1907/2/14 Oakview Troy lot old part (Mrs. D. S.) VAN CLEAVE Newton B. 1832 1915/11/28 Eslinger Urbana VAN CLEAVE Pauline 1805 1872/12/22 Blakesburg Blakesburg wife of Hiram VAN CLEAVE Sarah 1784 1859/4/6 Blakesburg Blakesburg (Mrs. S.) VAN CLEVE Melinda 1850 1873/2/1 Blakesburg Blakesburg (Mrs. Cyrus) VAN CLEVE Ora 1877 1938/1/6 Blakesburg Blakesburg VAN CLEVE Wm. Hiram 1866 1933/5/10 Blakesburg Blakesburg VAN PELT James N. 1835 1917/6/14 Methodist Jackson Civil War VAN PELT Mahala 1816 1901/4/9 Woodlawn Lovilia wife of Wm. A. VAN PELT Wm. 1852 1927/11/20 Woodlawn Lovilia lot 61 VAN PELT Wm. A. 1811 1875/11/15 Woodlawn Lovilia lot 44 VAN VOORHES Catherine M. 1839 1900/3/10 Oakview Troy lot old part (Mrs. J.) VAN VOORHES Mary E. 1835 1866/5/15 Pleasant Corners Pleasant VANCE Edw. Francis 1889/8/19 1936/1/10 Oakview Troy lot 114 (husband of June Dewey) son of Wm. & Laura) VANCE Glen Oakview Troy lot 3 Jenkins addition (aged 25) (Mrs.) VANLOON Gideon 1859 1929 Oakdale Cedar VANLOON Sarah J. 1851 1874/4/2 Oakdale Cedar (Mrs. Wm.) VANLOON Vernon 1896 1918 Oakdale Cedar killed in World War 1 (son of Gideon) VANSCHOACK Asbury 1819 1892/5/1 Oakview Troy lot 1 blk 9 VANSCHOACK Celia 1823 1909/5/18 Oakview Troy wife of Asbury VANSCHOACK Sarah M. 1850 1873/11/29 Oakview Troy lot 2 blk 9 VANSCHOACK Wm. 1853 1903/7/4 Oakview Troy (Reverend) lot 1 blk 9 VANSCHOISCH Bert 1892 1912 Oakview Troy lot 16 Townsends addition VANSCHOISCH Harry 1867 1933/7/17 Oakview Troy lot 11 blk 9 VANSCHOISCH Jerry J. 1848 1911/11/5 Oakview Troy lot 11 blk 9 VANSCHOISCH Jessie 1867 1907/12/7 Oakview Troy lot 16 (Mrs. J. F.) VANSCHOISCH Jessie Oakview Troy wife of bert VANSCHOISCH Mary J. 1850 1890/3/8 Oakview Troy wife of Jerry J. VARNER 1814 1910/6/4 Oakview Troy lot 10 ("grandma") VARNER Harry 1872 1907/9/19 Oakview Troy lot 10 (wife Clara) VARNER Henry 1852 1902/12/6 Oakview Troy lot 10 VARNER J. Carl 1866 1908/11/3 Oakview Troy lot 10 (wife Maggie) VARNER J. O. 1847 1915/3/28 Oakview Troy lot 10 VARNER Lucy J. 1846 1893/3/5 Pleasant Corners Pleasant (Mrs. J. B.) VARNER Maggie 1866 1902/7/31 Oakview Troy lot 10 (Mrs. J. Carl) VARNER Martin J. 1827 1863/9/13 Oakview Troy lot old part Civil War VARNER Ralph 1866 1914 Oakview Troy lot 10 (son of J. O. & S. J.) VARNER Sarah J. 1844 Oakview Troy wife of J. O. VERNON James F. 1833 1917/8/30 Oakview Troy lot 41 Co. L 142nd Ohio Volunteer C. G. Civil War VERNON Joshua W. 1845 1887/12/16 Hayden Chapel Pleasant (son of John & Mary) VERNON Mary 1827 1907/2/16 Hayden Chapel Pleasant (Mrs. John) VEST Joseph 1855 1934/11/2 St. Marys Troy (father of Leon) VIOLA Tony 1865 1933 Woodlawn Lovilia VOGEL John 1846 1918/5/28 Mt. Calvary Melrose VREELAND Geo. W. 1855 1909 Oakview Troy lot old part