Cemetery Records

GLOVER PLOT CEMETERY
Fairview Township, Allamakee county Iowa

The Glover Plot is located in the SW 1/4 of Section 15-96-3 on Luster Heights grounds. Arriving in 1849 Armstrong Glover was one of the landowners to plat Johnsonsport and he is credited with giving the township the name of Fairview. At his wish he was buried near the edge of a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. His tombstone reads:

Armstrong Glover, Son of Isaac. Born May 16, 1816 Dauphin Co., PA, Married Dec 1845 Steuben Co., IN. Died Mar 3, 1866 - Six children. Emily his wife, Dau of A. C. Britton, Dec 15 1825 - Nov 6, 1862.

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Name                                         Born           Died     Remarks

Glover, Armstrong                     1816 May 16    1866 Mar 03
Glover, Emily                         1825 Dec 15    1862 Nov 06     Mrs. Armstrong

-source: ALLAMAKEE COUNTY IOWA BURIAL GROUNDS, 1845-1988, by Dale P. Woodmansee, Waukon, Iowa; Copyright© 1989 Dale Woodmansee

-Transcribed by Roxanne Barth. Electronically reproduced with permission of Eleen Woodmansee granted to Roxanne Barth (former IAGenWeb Allamakee and Clayton County Coordinator), 1999.

Dale Woodmansee performed a wonderful service in surveying all the tombstones in the cemeteries in Allamakee county and publishing the data; but with any undertaking of this magnitude, there likely are errors, conflicting information or descrepancies. User-contributed information has been added on the Woodmansee Notes pages.