Hickory Grove Cemetery

HICKORY GROVE CEMETERY was located in Section 3 of White Breast Township. It was two and one-half miles north, one mile east, and three-fourths mile north of Lacona, Iowa.

Hickory Grove was the site of a Quaker settlement as early as 1866. It contained a store, post office and church south of what is now Rosemount Church. Later the area became a German Catholic settlement.

Hickory Grove cemetery started with the grave of a child. The parents were traveling westward in a covered wagon, and the child became so ill the parents stopped at the Hickory Grove settlement. When the child died, a farmer took a walnut board from his grain bin and built the wooden box to bury the child.

Cemetery and Death Records of Warren County, Iowa, Warren County Genealogical Society, Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri: 1980.

According to the Warren County Genealogical Society Newsletter, September 1982, gravestones had been stacked against a tree near the site of the old Hickory Grove Cemetery and were recently moved to Ackworth Cemetery. These gravestones are located in a separate section, east of the maintenance building.

View records submitted to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project for Hickory Grove Cemetery.