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RANDOLPH (ADAMSON) CEMETERY Address: 11055 Nevada Street, Indianola, Iowa GPS Coordinates: 41* 18’27.054”; 93* 35’ 47.245” Directions to the cemetery: Go South out of Indianola on Highway 65-69 to Nevada Street, also known as the Indianola Airport road. Continue West until you come to the cemetery on the North side of the road. There is a small sign saying “Randolph Cemetery.” Or you can go out of Indianola West on Highway 92 to R63 (Catholic Church on North side) and go South to Nevada Street. At the four way stop go East until you come to the cemetery on the North side of the road. There is a white fence. The stones are back in the clover and grass to the West of the entrance. They are in a clump of trees with lilies growing up around the stones. The trees are Oak and very big and pretty, a perfect place for a small cemetery. The cemetery was cataloged by Edith CONN in 1968, in 2010 by Dolly FLINN and in 2020 by Deborah SEGEBART. Randolph cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the county. It was fenced by Virgil HALTERMAN in the 1940s. The following article appeared in the Indianola Record and Tribune in 1949. THE FORGOTTEN CEMETERY by Mrs W.W. Davis Mrs Davis was the mother of Bryan, Daisy and Charles Davis. She has lived most of her life in the immediate vicinity of this cemetery, which may be forgotten by most people, but not by Mrs Davis. From childhood until physically unable to do so, she carried flowers every Memorial Day and placed them on the six graves in the cemetery on the hill overlooking Squaw Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Davis live a quarter mile east of the cemetery on the first road South of South River leading from the Highway 65 West to the Hoosier Row road. John and Margaret Adamson and two small children, Mary and Thomas came to Warren County and located in a cabin on Section 10, White Oak Township, about 40 rods East of Squaw Creek. On October 11, 1849 John died at the age of 33 years and 6 months, leaving his wife, his daughter Mary, his son Thomas and an unborn baby, who was a son named Simon. John was buried a short distance East of the home in Section 11. This was the beginning of the cemetery. On April 7, 1851, the son Thomas died and was buried beside his father. Thomas was 9 years old. White marble stones mark those two graves and are standing in good condition. An aged man and his wife are buried just West of the Adamson’s and native stones mark their graves. At one time, a wooden marker marked the grave of a small child buried to the SouthWest of these four graves. In 1907 a newborn baby, a son of Joe and Fanny Pearson, was buried beside John Adamson. A little gray markers marks his grave. This was the last to be buried in this cemetery. There are fourteen graves in all, of which eight are lost. The Warren County records show that in 1852, Ward Lamson transferred the SW 80 acres of Section 10 and the SW 800 acres of Section 11 to Margaret Adamson for the sum of $55.00. Margaret set aside two acres in the SW corner of Section 11 for the cemetery, to be used for burial purposes only. It is fenced on two sides by barbed wire and the six graves mentioned are fenced with a high woven wire and hedge posts (wire fence is replaced by white fence on two sides and the hedge posts/high woven wire is not there by the tombstones). Margaret Adamson sent her corn and wheat to Keokuk with neighbors to be ground into meal and flour. When Simon was older he helped to provide meat for the family by trapping wild turkeys and prairie chickens. Simon served in the Civil War and married Mary Jane Campbell, who was an aunt of the author of this sketch. Margaret Adamson was later married to Albert Randolph. To this union, two sons were born: Marion and Grant. North to South ROW 1 PEARSON Son of J & M.F. PEARSON ADAMSON John, died Oct 11, 1849 aged 33y 6m 8d ADAMSON Thomas, son of J & M. Adamson, died Apr 7, 1851, aged 9 y, 6 m, 3 d. The Pearson stone is leaning against the John Adamson stone. Beside these stones is part of a stone with no name on it. East of the ADAMSON tombstones are two small marble markers on the South side of the tree. ROW 2 West of the ADAMSON are two rock/stones in the ground which are in line with the tree. An aged man and his wife are buried. These native stones mark their graves. No names ROCK An unmarked reddish brown rock which was probably marking a grave MATHIS Deanna 1947-2019 (Peterson Funeral Home marker) MATHIS Kenneth b May 2, 1939, d Aug 7, 2015 ANDERSON Charles W., b Oct 20, 1941 d May 24, 2018 “Brother Charley” LARGE ROCK is placed West, in front of ANDERSON marker MATHIS Deanna 1947-2019 MATHIS Kenneth b May 2, 1939, d Aug 7, 2015 ANDERSON Charles W., b Oct 20, 1941 d May 24, 2018 “Brother Charley”   This additional information and burials were listed in the 1968 edition of the Warren County Cemetery Book. They were submitted by Richard McCoy from records of Charlie H. Gilliland: ADAMSON John d Oct 12, 1849 b Apr 11, 1816, age 33y 6m husband of Margaret Gibson ADAMSON_____ Pioneers came from Indiana and the man died at the home of George CASHMAN. The man was fifty or sixty years and died in August ADAMSON Thomas, b 1842, d Apr 7, 1851, age 9y son of John and Margaret ADAMSON ADAMSON John James Polk, b 1842, d Apr 10, 1851, age 9y, son of John and Margaret ADAMSON RANDOLPH Tabitha C. BUSSELLE, wife of James W. RANDOLPH, b Apr 11, 1830, d May 17, 1856 RANDOLPH Sarah L. ABELS, 2nd wife of Albert RANDOLPH, d Nov 18, 1854 BILBY Elizabeth ADAMSON RANDOLPH, wife of E.L. BILBY b Nov 17, 1826 in VA., d Feb 18, 1857 ADAMSON Ollie McCAMPBELL, dau of S.J. & M.J. ADAMSON, b Aug 1868 in Warren County, died Nov 8, 1874 ADAMSON James William, son of S.J. & M.J. ADAMSON, b Jul 7, 1875, d Aug 6, 1876 ADAMSON Simon John, b Apr 27, 1847 in VA, d Aug 28, 1910, grave moved to Indianola Cemetery ADAMSON Mary Jane McCAMPBELL, beloved wife, b Aug 1, 1842, d Jun 3, 1909 ADAMSON Pearl May, dau of J.A. & E.R. ADAMSON, b Apr 2 1907, d Jun 12, 1907 RANDOLPH Mary Elizabeth ADAMSON, wf of Johnnie W. RANDOLPH, b Mar 12, 1844, in VA, died Sep 19, 1919 RANDOLPH Margaret Gibson ADAMSON, 3rd wife of Albert RANDOLPH, b Jul 29, 1818 in VA, died Dec 28, 1892 PEARSON Infant son of Joseph and Fannie b Jan 1, 1907-Jan 1907