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March 10, 2011*


Buena Vista Twp.
Cemetery

42.678ºN / 90.954ºW
Buena Vista twp.

North Buena Vista cemetery - photo by Phyllis Peterson, Oct 2008

 

Gravestone photos have been contributed for this cemetery.
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Name Birth Death Comments
Bebber, Bernice L. 1914 1990 [same gravestone as Louallen F.]
Bebber, Louallen F. 1914 1981 [same gravestone as Bernice L.]
Beckler, Al 1826 01/04/1887 Co. G 21st Ia. Inf.
Berner, Andrew 1886 07/06/1914  
Brunson, Julia A. 1864 1929 [gravestone - nee Wallace]
Brunson, Semer 1862 1929 [same gravestone as Julia A.]
Doeckler, Magdalene 1861 03/31/1882  
Flowers, W. M.     (no dates); Co. C 21 Ia. Inf.
Happen, Beim     (no dates)
Henderson, James 1804 01/31/1857  
Heppen, Beim     (no dates)
Hoffmann, Chas. L. 1823 1873 [same gravestone as Cordelia]
Hoffmann, Cordelia 1834 1866 [wife of Chas. L.]
Kuykendall, Ben 07/11/1824 09/18/1900 [gravestone]
Kuykendall, Benj. U. 07/17/1867 04/30/1874 [same gravestone as Susie E.]
Kuykendall, Geo. L. 10/07/1873 12/30/1901 [same gravestone as Geo. W.]
Kuykendall, Geo. W. 05/15/1858 10/25/1861 [same gravestone as Geo. L.]
Kuykendall, Laura S. 10/11/1861 04/21/1890 [same gravestone as Susa J.]
Kuykendall, Susa J. 09/13/1834 07/01/1915 [same gravestone as Laura]
Kuykendall, Susie E. 04/02/1870 01/11/1874 [same gravestone as Benj. U.]
Little, Alsalon 1832 05/02/1864 Co. G 21st Ia. Inf.; killed New Orleans
Mason, Alfred 01/20/1805 10/13/1862 [gravestone - born in Lebanon, Ct]
Merkle, Ernest 07/07/1832 09/26/1899 [gravestone - born in Germany]
Meuth, Carl A. 1832 02/01/1914  
Meuth, Fannie 1834 03/14/1915  
Meuth, L. Euger 1835 10/15/1889  
Meuth, Robert (Dr.) 1840 1903  
Meuth, Rudolph 1830 02/17/1907  
Meuth, Rudolph 1871 03/27/1911  
Moser, Eliza 1827 02/05/1916  
Nagle, Carl F. 06/10/1876 03/05/1915  
Potter, Jessie 08/17/1889 07/07/1891 [same gravestone as Merill & Nellie; "Our Darlings"]
Potter, Merill 12/04/1895 04/11/1896 [same gravestone as Jessie & Nellie; "Our Darlings"]
Potter, Nellie 06/03/1892 01/06/1893 [same gravestone as Merill & Jessie; "Our Darlings"]
Riniker, Anna 09/07/1828 09/16/1899 [gravestone - wife of Jacob, nee Simmen]
Riniker, Jacob 06/06/1824 06/17/1892 [same gravestone as Anna & William]
Riniker, William 10/04/1868 03/15/1870 [same gravestone as Anna & Jacob]
Sawyer, E. P. 03/06/1843 12/21/1918 [gravestone - first name may be Eugene]
Saylor, John N. ---- 09/19/1939 [gravestone - Iowa, Pvt, 347 M.C. BN, 91 Div]
Strong, Geo. G. 1812 07/19/1887  
Tharp, Jacob 1862 1931 [same gravestone as Martha]
Tharp, Martha 1865 1932 [gravestone - nee Hounsell]
Thorpe, Catherine 1827 04/11/1871  
Tinkey, Florence May 1885 1885 [same gravestone as Nancy Ann]
Tinkey, George     (no dates)
Tinkey, Nancy Ann 1886 1887 [same gravestone as Florence May]
Tittle, John L. 1841 04/24/1911 E. Tenn. Light Art. Co. B
Van Sickle, Eliza   1860  
Wick, Andrew 01/26/1836 10/13/1900 Co. G 21st Ia. Inf. [gravestone - born in Heppenheim, Germany]
Wick, George A. 1870 1936 [gravestone]
Wick, Katte 1879 10/17/1900  
Woodall, O. F. 1811 1894 Q. M. Sergt 6th Ia. Cav. [Obediah]


-source: WPA cemetery records unless otherwise noted
-WPA records were transcribed by Phyllis Montour
-note: comments found in [brackets] were added by the submitter or the county coordinator; comments found in (parenthesis) or not enclosed, are from the WPA records

*This page was updated on 03/10/2011 adding burials and dates from gravestone photo records.

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