Photos: Jim Christianson

Photo: Anna Griessel

Members of the Jones County Genealogical Society have donated this reading of Riverside Cemetery. This is a huge cemetery and a huge undertaking on their part. Now they need your help. "Lost Souls of Riverside Cemetery" is a list (below) of 276 people that they are fairly certain are buried in Riverside Cemetery...they just do not know where. Each year the sexton of the cemetery provided a list of persons he had buried that year. These people appear on the list, but their gravesites cannot be found. Keep in mind that before refrigeration bodies would be buried in a temporary location until it was determined where exactly they were going to go. If you are able to provide information on what happened to the remains of any of these people, please write to Joanne Wilken

• The Jones County Genealogy Society used these resources in compiling this spreadsheet:
  Cemetery records stored at the Anamosa City Hall.
  A 2002 gravestone reading done by the JCGS
  The gravestone reading done by the WPA in the early 1930s.
  The annual cemetery sexton’s report from the Anamosa Eureka.
• In the Date columns, information in parenthesis ( ) is not from the gravestones. It is probably a burial date.
• If the lot owner is not buried on the lot their names are included in the Notes column.
• No post-1950 burials are included. Jones County Genealogy Society will be happy to provide information on post-1950 burials.
• We welcome corrections or additions. Please send to JCGS .