new content added 09/13/2022
Cemetery Index
new content added 09/13/2022
Cemetery
Index
Knapp Cemetery aka Pleasant Ridge cemetery Mendon twp. Sec. 8, NW/NE
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~Sources of the burial information:
WPA cemetery records, transcribed by Phyllis Montour
Gravestone inscriptions read & photos taken by 'Gemni' in October 2011
Clayton County Death Records (CCDR)
Information found in obituaries, census & newspapers
~The 1874 plat, 1890 Quit Claim & 1892 Land sale documents were scanned from the originals at the Clayton co. courthouse by "Gemni'~Photos have been submitted to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project (GPP) for Knapp cemetery. Click here to view them. A new window will open.
Obituaries have been contributed for people buried Knapp cemetery
Clayton co. Obituary Index and Allamakee co. Obituary Index
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 Clayton county, Plat Book 1, pg 235, 1874 Shows the Knapp school and Knapp graveyard. The road is now known as Pleasant Ridge. |
 Quit Claim, September 16, 1890 Thomas & Mary English to Eli Gardner (a JP) and his successors as Trustees of a public cemetery |
Clayton co. Deed Book 64, pg 180; April 11,
1892
Thomas and Mary English sold the property around the cemetery to
Joseph Gardner.
The cemetery was excluded
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Key:
ssa=same stone as
GPP =Iowa Gravestone Photo Project (see link above)
CCDR=Clayton County Register of Deaths
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
| Allen, Helen Charlotte nee Timson or Tompson | 01/2?/1892 | 61y 3m; w/o Thomas | |
| Allen, Thomas B. | 11/21/1820 | 09/28/1907 | h/o Charotte; s/o William & Elizabeth; Co. K, 21st WI Inf. |
| Barth, infant | 02/29/1936 | 02/29/1936 | d/o Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Barth; Clayton co. Register, 03/11/1936, pg 6 |
| Carleton, Christiana | - | 12/22/1892 | Age 71y 8m; CCDR, Bk I, pg 88 |
| Cleghorn, Grace | 06/10/1877 | Aged 14; d/o H.A. & H.M.; Obit gives burial Pleasant Ridge | |
| Contal, Albert H. | - | 06/03/1865 | Age 10y 4m 16d; s/o B & M.J. Contal; GPP |
| Contal, Arthur Louis | 10/27/1887 | 04/20/1892 | Son of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Contal; GPP |
| Contal, Mary Jane | - | 03/12/1859 | Age 36y; w/o Benjamin; GPP |
| Dickens, Eunice E. | - | 03/22/1877 | Age 32y 1m 18d; w/o L.N. Dickens; GPP |
| Erickson, Esther | 10/25/1831 | 02/25/1909 | ssa Evan; GPP |
| Erickson, Evan | 01/19/1827 | 02/17/1909 | ssa Esther; GPP |
| Fuller, Clarice Lorraine | 08/02/1933 | 03/05/1935 | d/o Clarence |
| Fuller, Emery E. | 1876 | 1960 | 'Father'; GPP |
| Fuller, Stanley 'Sam' | 02/01/1915 | 10/29/1976 | s/o Emery & Belle Singleton; GPP |
| Guray, E.T. | - | 09/08/1869 | Age 22y 22d; 'Drowned'; GPP |
| Knapp, Abigail nee Mudge | 1805 | 1892 | w/o John; GPP |
| Knapp, Andrew Jackson | 05/11/1844 | 06/07/1911 | s/o John & Abigail; CCDR |
| Knapp, Evelyn | 1850 | 1902 | ssa Louis Ostrander & Joseph Knapp; GPP |
| Knapp, George W. | 05/11/1843 | 09/09/1913 | h/o Rebecca J.; GPP |
| Knapp, Harold Donald | 06/09/1919 | 03/20/1920 | s/o Eugene |
| Knapp, John | - | 10/12/1883 | Age 84y; h/o Abigail; GPP |
| Knapp, Joseph | 1838 | 1900 | ssa Evelyn Knapp & Louisa Ostrander; GPP |
| Knapp, Mabel Nora nee Knapp | 1877 | 1959 | w/o Milo J.; d/o Mike & Katie (Anderson or Henderson); GPP |
| Knapp, Michael C. | 11/15/1846 | 07/02/1912 | ?h/o Kate |
| Knapp, Milo James | 05/10/1870 | 03/08/1951 | h/o Mabel N.; s/o George & Rebecca; GPP |
| Knapp, Nelson | - | 06/30/1889 | Age 61y; GPP |
| Knapp, Rebecca Jane nee Mudge | 05/27/1846 | 06/26/1928 | w/o George W.; GPP |
| Lawson, Benjamin | - | 1883 | Age 10y 2m 22d; GPP |
| Lawson, Walter | - | 12/26/1870 | Age 21y 9m; GPP |
| Magee, Rupert | - | 10/23/1870 | Age 26y; Masonic symbol on gravestone; GPP |
| McGowan, Belle nee Singleton | 1884 | 1962 | w/o 1st Emery Fuller, 2nd William McGowan; GPP |
| McGowan, Billy A. | 09/14/1919 | 09/17/1935 | GPP |
| McGowan, William | 1868 | 1953 | GPP |
| O'Conners, Harry or Harvey William | 10/26/1915 | 03/18/1917 | s/o John Wm & Rebecca (Frandtsen); obit= Pleasant Ridge cemetery, Death Cert.= Knapp cemetery |
| Ostrander, Louisa | 1823 | 1905 | ssa Joseph & Evelyn Knapp; GPP |
| Owen, Reese / Ruse | - | ? | Age 26y; b. Anglesea, North Wales; inscription very difficult to read. The 1870 US Census, N. McGregor, Mendon twp., Clayton co IA, enumerated Ruse Owen, age 25, b. Wales, Locomotive machinist, married in Sept of the last year; his wife Ann Owen, age 23, b. England, married in Sept of the last year. Both in household of William & Jane Owen, ages 27 & 26, b. N. Wales. Reece / Ruse's gravestone says he was aged 26, so he died 1871/72 |
| Raitt, Charles | 1863 | 1920 | ssa Caroline; a new plaque has been placed on the old gravestone; GPP |
| Raitt, Esther Caroline nee Adney | 11/16/1865 | 06/25/1901 | ssa Charles; a new plaque has been placed on the old gravestone; GPP |
| Rogers, Orrin S. | - | 11/29/1881 | Age 17y 3m 20d; CCDR, Bk 1, pg 19 |
| Shook, Milo | - | 10/19/1865 | Age 5m 8d; s/o John F. & Louisa Shook; GPP |
| Stellefer, Mary Estella | - | 05/30/1861 | Age 1y 3m 7d; d/o Joseph & ?Estella Stellefer; GPP |
| Wilson, Maud 'Maudie' May | 06/08/1914 | 10/25/1916 | d/o William & Mary (Pierce); obit= Pleasant Ridge cemetery, Death Cert.= Knapp cemetery |
| Woodman, Emma | - | see notes | Age 19y 1m 5d; The inscription may read: "wife of W. H. Woodman". WPA recorded dates as 1806-1925, but they must be wrong. When the WPA did the cemetery survey in the 1930's Emma Woodman's gravestone inscription likely had already deteriorated enough that the reading was difficult. It is more likely that Emma's dates are 1856-1875; GPP |
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