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This list of cemeteries in Iowa includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
St. Boniface Catholic Church (Westphalia, Iowa) St. John's Lutheran Church (Hampton, Iowa) St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Bauer, Iowa) St. Michael's Catholic Church (Holbrook, Iowa) Sharon Cemetery Historic District; Slinde Mounds State Preserve; South Jordan Cemetery; Spring Creek Friends Cemetery
8th-12th Sts. and 2nd and 3rd Aves., Fort Dodge, Iowa: Coordinates: Area: 8.75 acres (3.54 ha) Architectural style: Late Victorian Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: NRHP reference No. 77000567: Added to NRHP: May 5, 1977 [1]
The first burial was January 1, 1861, and tens of thousands have occurred since. The cemetery is now 67 acres, and is still active. [2] The Canton Cemetery Association, a non-sectarian non-profit organization with a volunteer board of trustees and paid staff, manages and owns West Lawn, as well as North Lawn in another part of the city. [2]
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It was the site of the dedication of the adjacent National Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address from a platform in Evergreen Cemetery. [7] [8] Greendale Cemetery: 1853: Meadville, Pennsylvania: Mount Adnah Cemetery: 1853: Fulton, New York: Oak Hill Cemetery: 1853: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Oak Woods Cemetery: 1853: Chicago, Illinois
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Karl King died on March 31, 1971, of acute diverticulitis at age 80 in a Fort Dodge, Iowa hospital. He and his wife Ruth I. (Lovett) King (June 10, 1898 – July 4, 1988) are buried at North Lawn Cemetery. Their only son Karl L. King, Jr. was born in 1919 and died November 19, 1987.