Many died in the hills and
hollows of the Middle Missouri Valley as the
early Latter-day Saints moved west, they were
our ancestors. To honor and remember them we
endeavor to create a record of the cemeteries
that dot the area in which some 90 plus
settlements once were established. Many remain
others faded away. We seek to find and establish them as pioneer cemeteries.
When Mary McKenzie, age 34,
died in Kanesville on 22 August 1850, her death
prompted this poem to be published in the Frontier Guardian:
Mary
sleep on and now take your rest,
May your swift spirit find ease and with
the rest of the blest,
Your troubles were great and your labors
too,
In serving the
Lord since you left Nauvoo.
“Died,” Frontier
Guardian, 4 Sept. 1850.
Click on the counties of Iowa
and the Omaha, Nebraska areas to open maps of cemeteries in that
community.
