Shaver Cemetery

SHAVER CEMETERY is in the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 6 of Liberty Township. It is three miles west and two and three-fourths miles north of Liberty Center, Iowa.

Henry Shaver was an early settler of Liberty Township, arriving in 1853. At one time, a family was passing through the area in a covered wagon on their way west. Their little girl died near the Shaver farm. The travelers begged permission to bury their daughter on a corner of the farm. Henry and Elizabeth Shaver donated tone acre of ground for a cemetery.

Henry Shaver enlisted in the service during the Civil War, and was later discharged for disability. Back at home, he helped organize a company of home guards. He was the captain.

At his death, Henry Shaver was buried at the Shaver Cemetery. His wife, Elizabeth, their son Benjamin and his wife, and their grandson Gordon and his wife Lydia, are buried in Shaver Cemetery.

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

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