Highland Cemetery, Providence Township, Hardin County, Iowa
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Highland Cemetery, Providence Township, Section 20
Pioneer Cemetery
Located 25284 290th Street about 2 and 1/2 miles west and 1/4 mile south of New Providence. Follow 290th Street, the gravel road straight west out of New Providence, the road will turn left south for about 1/8 of mile then turn back to the west again and down a small hill. Look to your right about 150 feet before going down the hill, in the pasture, you will see Highland Cemetery. At one time the Highland Quaker Meeting House (1870-1905) was also at this spot. The Meeting house was later moved down the hill to the farmstead but that has since been cleared also. There was also a school house on this corner. Inscriptions on the gravestones in the cemetery indicate that many of the people interred here were members of the Society of Friends. Quite a number of the stones are broken and the oldest inscription is the death of Suzanna Marsh in 1859. She was a child of four years. The last burial was that of Rebecca Slack, wife of D. Slack, who died in 1911. Two GAR markers were also located here. According to the "Union Star", of June 29 1900, Jabe Hodson, an old pioneer settler of this county passed away in the home of his son, David, at Radcliffe, on Monday and was buried in the Highland Cemetery. However there is no stone found for him.NW1/4 NW1/4 8-86-20W
Copied by Jesse and Julia LUNDY BRAGA 1977.
Last burial July 24, 1911.
Surnames found in Highland Cemetery
| Albertson | Aylesworth | Blair | Carr | Carter |
| Clemens | Cox | Davis | DeWitt | Ellis |
| Fowler | Hall | Hammar | Harris | Hawarth |
| Hockett | Hodson | Jessup | Jones | Knowles |
| Marsh | Mills | Perisho | Pickering | Slack |
| Stanley | Steel | Stevens | Thornton | 1 unreadable |
| NAME | BORN | DIED | NOTES |
| Albertson, Jesse | Co B 11th Ia Inf GAR | ||
| Albertson, George W. | May 19 1860 | 1yr2m3day dau of B & ST Albertson | |
| Aylesworth, Almira N | Feb 8 1879 | 6mo13days dau of DB & AE Aylesworth | |
| Blair, Joseph | Jan 8 1876 | 70 yrs | |
| Blair, Nancy | Aug 10 1814 | Mar 20 1879 | 65y7m10day as Marcus |
| Blair, Marcus | Jan 29 1815 | May 9 1888 | 73y3m10day as Nancy |
| Carr, Thomas | Jan 24 1866 | unreadable | |
| Carr, Mary L | Oct 10 1866 | 4y2m4day dau of C & M J Carr | |
| Carter, Lydia | Apr 16 1890 | 41y2m23dy wife of LOC on top of stone | |
| Clemens, Adam | Jan 14 1881 | 63y | |
| Cox, Eleanor M | July 8 1864 | inf dau of B & M Cox | |
| Davis, Frank R | Mar 16 1882 | 1yr11dy son of J C & R M Davis | |
| Davis, Alpheus L | Mar 29 1878 | 21y4m17dy son of WH & S B Davis | |
| DeWitt, Catherine | Dec 2, 1873 | 69yr7m9dy wife of E. DeWitt | |
| Ellis, Soloman | Jul 12 1882 | 59yr2m14dy | |
| Ellis, Coswin W | Feb 4 1862 | 10yr8m17dy son of S & A Ellis | |
| Ellis, Asenath | Jun 20 1870 | 45y1m3dy wife of Solomon Ellis | |
| Fowler, baby | Jul 31 1879 | son of G W & M D Fowler | |
| Hall, Bentley | Aug 6 1877 | 4 mos son of W G & D Hall | |
| Hammar, Hiram | Nov 22 1866 | 31yr11mo22dy | |
| Harris, Phineas | Oct 30 1862 | 37yr6m20dy | |
| Hawarth, ????? | Jan 24 1881 | 31y6m26dy wife of J Hawarth dau of J & C Marsh | |
| Hockett, Millicent | Feb 14 1874 | 34yr wife of J esse Hockett dau of Jonass & Elizabeth Hosier-Deselms | |
| Hockett, ????? | broken stone | dau of J & S H Hockett | |
| Hodson, Mary | May 30 1860 | 35y5m21dy wife of Jabez Hodson | |
| Hodson, Permelia | Nov 24 1871 | 70y10dy mother ofr Cyrus Carr | |
| Jessup, Alice Ann | Jul 21, 1872 | 4y6m28day dau of E & M J Jessup | |
| Jessup, Charity | Aug 9 18872 | 1y11m7d dau of E & M J Jessup | |
| Jones, Eddie | May 19 18781 | 2y3d son of H A & L H Jones | |
| Jones, Henry J | Mar 10 1881 | 1yr 5days son of H A & L Jones | |
| Knowles, Johm | Oct 5 1879 | 62y1m15dy father as Mary | |
| Knowles, Mary B | Feb 2 1821 | Dec 31 1907 | mother as John |
| Knowles, Francis | Oct 27 1887 | 31yr10m21dy | |
| Knowles, Daniel | Oct 4 1824 | Apr 11 1909 | |
| Marsh, Susanna F | Apr 9 1859 | 4yr6m22dy dau of J & C March | |
| Mills, Samuel M | Oct 1 1865 | 8m13dy son of D S & M A Mills | |
| Perisho, Catherine S | Nov 21 1862 | 15y1m16dy dau of S & C Perisho | |
| Perisho, Fanny M | Dec 27 1873 | 46y6m14dy wife oof J C Perisho | |
| Pickering, Mary B | Jun 17 1879 | Apr 7 1880 | dau of L & E Pickering |
| Slack, Rebecca | May 12 1824 | Jul 24 1911 | 87yr2m12dy wife of D Slack (Last burial) |
| Slack, Daniel | May 23 1821 | May 4 1888 | 66y11m11dy as Rebecca |
| Slack, Adah | Aug 8 1881 | 1y48m5dy dau of M & C Slack | |
| Stanley, Mary E | Nov 11 1872 | 8y2m21dy dau of J & T Stanley | |
| Steel, Isaac | Nov 8 1877 | 42yr | |
| Stevens, Archie | Apr 6 1883 | 2m18dy son of L E & S K Stevens | |
| Stevens, Sarah K | Mar 4 1883 | 21y1m4dy wife of L E Stevens | |
| Stevens, Ezra A | Aug 22 1862 | 51yr3m2dy | |
| Thornton, Moriah E | Nov 22 1861 | 18y2m19dy wife of J T Thornton | |
| unreadable, Eva | Mar 9 1876 | 9y11m9dy |