Place:Jerome Cemetery, Jerome, Appanoose, Iowa, United States

At the same time the school site was purchased in the mid-1800s, a plot of ground, three-fourths of an acre, near the school property and owned by Jacob Stoner was set aside for a grave yard. There was no deed recorded of this property until 1900 when Harve Andrews, G. B. Van Dorn and E. L. Shontz trustees of Lincoln township, deeded the property to the Jerome Cemetery Association which had been founded in 1898.

In the interim a larger tract adjoining the original cemetery plot had been purchased from B. F. Sedgwick. First officers of the Cemetery Association were D. D. Wilson, president; Peter Wilson, secretary; and Wm. Hagan, treasurer; Lincoln Moore, James Barton and George Sidles, Se. were the first trustees. Each of these officers took an active part in the Association until his death.

The first grave in the cemetery plot was that of Willie Moore, eldest son of John and Mary Moore, buried in 1850. This child was a brother of Mrs. George Wailes. (From Memories of Jerome, Iowa, 1989 published for the 1989 Jerome Reunion.)

The Jerome Cemetery is managed by the volunteer, non-profit Jerome Cemetery Association.

Location

13253-13341 524th St

Resources

• Billion Graves: Jerome Cemetery
• Find A Grave: Jerome Cemetery
• Iowa Gravestone Photo Project: Jerome Cemetery
• The Jerome Journal