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Re: Greenwood-Johnson Cemetery "Vanished"
Posted by: Thom Carlson (ID *****3139)	Date: May 18, 2008 at 08:58:51
In Reply to: Greenwood-Johnson Cemetery "Vanished" by Andy Weaver	of 376

According to the records compiled in the 1970's by the Benton County Historical Society, it was located in sec. 1, Canton Twp, "located in a field west of road about 1 mile east and 1 3/4 miles north of Shellsburg (owned in 1972 by J.A. Kropuenske)" They noted only one stone remaining, and one burial remembered:

[Lewis]
[inf. dau. of Nathan Lewis]
[first burial in this cemetery, 1840]
[info. provided by C. Ira Lewis, 1974]

Race, Sarah
dau. of Andrew & ?
d. 1 Oct 1859 at 19 y 9m 15d
[stone broken]

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