updated 03/15/2015


HARPERS FERRY CEMETERY
aka Sandy Point cemetery
Taylor Township, Allamakee county Iowa

The Harpers Ferry Cemetery (also called Sandy Point) is on the southern edge of Harpers Ferry, Iowa. A plat showing the location of the cemetery is included in an original copy of the Woodmansee book.


Notes:

1. View photos of all existing gravestones in the Sandy Point cemetery at the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project (opens a new window)
2. Woodmansee Notes have been submitted for this cemetery. A red Research Alert! next to the entry indicates there is a note for that person. Click here to read them, a new window will open.
3. See also: Sandy Point cemetery, history and burial research

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Burials recorded by Woodmansee as of Dec. 31, 1988:

page 554
Name                                         Born           Died     Remarks

Cole, Margaret                        1930 Apr 15    1930 Apr 15     DR
Coopernoll, P. V.                     1851 Sep 26    1870 Sep 07		Research Alert!
Croxton, Handy                                1875   1903 Jun 26     NM
Delphey, Henry Walton                         1899   1906 Oct 24     DR
Dodds, Thomas H                                 ?    1880 Mar 30     Co F IA 6 Cav NM
Gilhart, John                                   ?    1883 May 13     NM
Hammond, Edward                       1884 Dec 22    1911 Mar 12     CW Vet GAR
Harper, Ada                                     ?    1864 Nov 12     NM
Harper, David                         1819 Mar 22    1869 Mar 11
Harper, Harriet                                 ?    1889 Feb 10
Ishmael, Richard                              1841   1909 Dec 17     NM
Johnson, John W                               1844   1911 Jan 06     NM
Kish, George                          1866 Mar 05    1923 Jul 03     NM DR
Klett, William                        1825 May 27    1905 Oct 11     NM DR
Latroube, Peter                               1852   1872 May 24     NM
McManus, ?                                      ?    1882 Oct 10     NM
Spores, David S                       1851 Aug 04    1918 Nov 28     NM
Sullivan, ?                                     ?              ?
Tuker, John W                                 1822           1852    NM TUCKER?
Wilhite?, Louis                                 ?    1922 Nov 07     DR Research Alert!

 

-source: ALLAMAKEE COUNTY IOWA BURIAL GROUNDS, 1845-1988, by Dale P. Woodmansee, Waukon, Iowa; Copyright© 1989 Dale Woodmansee

-Transcribed by Roxanne Barth. Electronically reproduced with permission of Eleen Woodmansee granted to Roxanne Barth (former IAGenWeb Allamakee and Clayton County Coordinator), 1999.

Dale Woodmansee performed a wonderful service in surveying all the tombstones in the cemeteries in Allamakee county and publishing the data; but with any undertaking of this magnitude, there likely are errors, conflicting information or descrepancies. User-contributed information has been added on the Woodmansee Notes pages.

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