Walters Cemetery

(town of Pershing in background)

The Walters Cemetery is located in Section 34, Township 75, Range 19 near the present town of Pershing in Marion County, Iowa. The original size of this family burying ground was about 66' X 165'. However, it is now about 40 feet square. There was once a 16' lane leading from a county road G62 to the cemetery. The cemetery is now land-locked by surrounding farmland.

Conrad Walters and wife Sarah deeded the cemetery to the trustees of the Methodist Church of Knoxville Circuit on August 27, 1855. Possibly there was once a church at this site.

During the fall of 2004, my husband Ronald and I restored this cemetery. We probed the entire area trying to locate missing stones and reset all the stones that were available. The cemetery has not been maintained for many decades and has been over run by cattle and farm machinery. Many of the stones were in several pieces and hard to read. Some stones that were there when the cemetery was read in 1976 are now missing. Hopefully, what is left of the cemetery will be maintained in the future.

This list is the result of reading the stones and some research. Also, descendants of the Walters family provided some information. Anyone having additions or corrections to this list is encouraged to contact me.

--Margaret Gee

Surname	First/Middle	Maiden	Birth Date	Death Date	Marker	Notes
Unknown					Yes	Footstone with initials D J
Bridges	Edith A	Walters	15 Apr 1832	25 Apr 1864	Yes	w/o Julius S, d/o Conrad and Sarah Heaton Walters
Camplin	Sarah E		abt 1847	1864	Yes	d/o John & Rachel Heaton Walters Camplin
McKenzie	Keith				Yes	s/o W & EE, 7m, 18d. No death date on stone
Mount	Nelson D		22 Jul 1822	29 Apr 1855	Yes	Possibly a brother of Rebecca Mount Walters
Walters	A J		29 Apr 1854	20 Oct 1856	No	information from a descendant of Walters family
Walters	Alvin E		11 Nov 1858	25 Feb 1861	Yes	s/o of Isaac H & Elizabeth May Walters
Walters	Byrd C		29 Apr 1856	20 Oct 1856	Yes	s/o Isaac H & Elizabeth May Walters
Walters	Conrad		23 Nov 1794	28 Jul 1870	Yes	h/o Sarah Heaton Walters
Walters	Edwin B		8 Jun 1863	17 Sep 1863	Yes	s/o James Milton & Elizabeth W Babb Walters
Walters	Elizabeth W	Babb	10 Sep 1834	14 Sep 1863	Yes	w/o John Milton Walters
Walters	Esther W		17 Aug 1834	23 Aug 1855	Yes	d/o Conrad & Sarah A Heaton Walters
Walters	Icher				No	information from a descendant of Walters family
Walters	John C		16 Apr 1848	19 Oct 1850	Yes	s/o James M & Rebecca Ann Mount Walters
Walters	Laura		9 Jul 1854	11 Aug 1855	Yes	d/o James M & Rebecca Ann Mount Walters
Walters	Mary Ellen			1 Jul 1860	Yes	d/o James M & Belinda M Walters
Walters	Rebecca Ann	Mount	6 Aug 1820	8 Aug 1855	Yes	w/o of James M
Walters	Samantha		Jan 1852	7 Aug 1864	Yes	d/o Isaac H & Elizabeth May Walters
Walters	Sarah Ann	Heaton	1798	21 Dec 1864	Yes	w/o Conrad, death date from Brobst Diary
Walters	Sarah Line		16 Apr 1857	16 Mar 1858	Yes	d/o James M & Belinda M Walters

Contributed and copyrighted by Margaret Gee on December 2004 and reformatted by Al Hibbard on 6 Oct 2013