Cemetery Burial Sources

Written cemetery records are not used as there is limited access to them.  For rural cemeteries, the written records are the responsibility of the Township Trustees or, in a few cases, the cemeteries have their own associations.  For the Winterset Cemetery, ledgers of burials were made available to the County Coordinators in August, 2021 but have not been cross checked against the Cemetery Burial List appearing on this website except for obituaries posted since August, 2021. 

 

Cemetery Burial List information is compiled by the County Coordinators after researching these sources:

 

          Gravestones

          Obituaries

          Newspapers

          Madison County Death Records

          WPA Gravestone Research Project

          Madison County Histories

          Funeral Home Records

          Family submitted data

 

Notes:

 

          1. Dates of birth In the Cemetery Burial List in red font are calculated from gravestone data.

 

          2. Any data you find in the captions of the gravestone photos that is not physically engraved on the gravestone should not be used as a source.  This research was done by a previous County Coordinator, is unsourced, and is being removed as time permits to comply with National Genealogical Society guidelines.

 

 

This page was last updated Thursday, 26-Aug-2021 12:35:55 CDT  

Maintained by the County Coordinator.