Linn Grove Cemetery

LINN GROVE CEMETERY is located in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 35 of Linn Township. The cemetery is one mile north and one-quarter mile east of Prole, Iowa. It can be reached by going four and one-half miles north of Martensdale, Iowa on Highway 28. Linn Grove is four miles south of Norwalk.

Samuel Crow located on North River in Linn Township in February, 1846. His son, William, was born May, 1846, in Linn Township. Early settlers in the township also included J. McClain, B. Onstott, L.S. Spencer, S.L. Burlingame, Joshua Burkhead, Cyrus Gates, William S. Baldwin and Hiram Lamb.

Samuel Crow gave the land for the cemetery and a church in 1850. A small log cabin stood inside the gate of the cemetery on the west, and this building served as the church and community affairs building. In this log cabin, the Linn Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1853 with Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Crow, Mr. & Mrs. William Allen and Sarah Allen as first members. A new church was built in 1867, and rebuilt in 1893 and 1903. Many early records for Linn Grove Cemetery and Church have been destroyed by fire.

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 Linn Grove Cemetery.