Pioneer Cemetery
Overton, Nevada


All photographs donated by CHASE RICHARDS of Henderson, Nevada
(JULY, 2006 Copyright) unless indicated otherwise
An Eagle Scout Project


Overton, Nevada is a small community located about 1 hour north of Las Vegas, Nevada. It was settled about 1865 by pioneer Mormons sent by Brigham Young to expand their farming. One of the first burials in the Pioneer Cemetery was in 1865. Around 1870, with Overton now part of the new state of Nevada, (this area was previously part of Utah) the pioneers found the taxes higher than Utah and abandoned the settlement. The land was resettled in 1880 by other Mormons. In the early 1930s, the U. S. Government completed the Hoover Dam project and soon Lake Mead began forming. St. Thomas and Kaolin were two settlements that were casualties of the rising Lake Mead. In 1935, 78 graves in the cemeteries at Kaolin and St. Thomas were removed to Logandale, Overton, and New St. Thomas cemeteries. According to the U. S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation report, 8 of those graves were relocated to the Pioneer Cemetery.


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A-C

NAME BIRTH DEATH COMMENTS
A
ADAMSON, Marshall W. 12/10/1922 9/17/1985 MSgt. US Air Force
ALDREDGE, Shirley M. 3/7/1944 11/1/1988 In Loving Memory of
ALLEN, Milton J. 9/25/1922 11/7/1993 US Navy WWII
ANDERS, Ann Victoria 1916 2002  
ANDERSEN, Agnes Clive 7/18/1894 9/26/1965 Mother
ANDERSEN, Annie G.
ANDERSEN, Thomas M.		 2/27/1894
12/18/1885
10/24/1971		  
ANDERSEN, Carrie Hannig
ANDERSEN, Fay Emanuel		 11/10/1896
7/10/1894		 5/30/1988
12/21/1970		 Mother, Father
ANDERSEN, Elizabeth C.
ANDERSEN, James P.		 8/15/1858
11/28/1855		 1/19/1937
9/15/1946		  
ANDERSEN, Ellen J. 1881 1946 Mother
ANDERSEN, Garner A.
ANDERSEN, Roma Reber		 8/26/1916
10/19/1925		 5/3/1996
3/13/1997		 Mother, Father
ANDERSEN, Jeanette Allan 10/13/1936 1/6/2000  
ANDERSEN, James W. 1/24/1879 1/31/1958  
ANDERSEN, Linda 10/26/1946 1/17/1947  
ANDERSEN, Nonie 1926 2004  
ANDERSEN, Thomas Orvil   10/26/1929  
AVERETT, John H.
AVERETT, Mary J.		 1854
1869		 1917
1956		  
AVERETT, William W. 4/29/1886 12/3/1906 In loving remembrance of our dear son & brother
B
BAGSHAW, Melvin Joe 4/16/1938 6/30/1998 US Air Force
BAGSHAW, Moroni Josephus 5/15/1906 10/20/1973  
BAGSHAW, Rosetta 9/6/1909 6/5/1981 Beloved Mother; "Aunt Bud"
BAGSHAW, Robert Alex 1944 2006  
BAILEY, May C. 5/8/1912 4/8/1999 Per Ardua Ad Astra; Through Hardship to the Stars
BAKER, Aaron Edgar, Jr. 9/30/1946 2/13/2004 Devoted Husband, Father, Builder
BALDWIN, Martha Aletha 1838 1934 Loving wife of George C. Baldwin
BANISTER, Earl W. 5/29/1903 12/8/1958  
BANISTER, Lydia Cooper Prisbrey 4/27/1894 5/7/1984 Loving Wife & Mother
BARCLAY, Llewellyn M. 6/30/1888 10/24/1907 In loving remembrance of our dear son & brother
BARNEY, Samantha Jo 11/26/1989 12/15/1989 We love you, Your Family
BATTY, William Lancashire 12/7/1875 10/14/1932  
BENCH, Charles A. 1886 1962  
BLAIR, Glenn Anthony 2/10/1938 5/13/1987 In Loving Memory of our Husband and Father; "May your dreams come true"
BOWEN, Reece L. 3/1/1919 10/7/2000  
BOWMAN, Cyrus Calvert 8/17/1865 12/4/1958  
BOWMAN, Lydia Lorretta Squire 1/24/1863 2/24/1908 In loving memory of, Wife of Wm. G. Bowman.
BRASWELL, Dolly P. 1890 1967  
BROWN, Don Field 1927 2005  
BROWN, William Harry 9/10/1887 7/4/1911  
BRUBAKER, Claude R. 2/3/1935 3/7/1935  
BRUNO, John J.
BRUNO, Ialeen P.		 1906
1921		 1982
2004		 The Heart Does Not Forget
BUBOLTZ, Louis W. 1880 1954  
BULLARD, Gary Lee 11/10/1930 12/28/1991 US Navy, Korea
BULLARD, Russell Lee 1905 1959  
BUNDY, Brandi Dean 9/19/1986 1/14/1992 Little Brandi was her family's little rosebud who brightened their every day. She is also her heavenly Father's rosebud and she resides in His garden today. We love you and miss you
BURGESS, Elizabeth L.
BURGESS, George M.		 10/24/1882
4/3/1878		 12/31/1959
8/28/1969		  
BURGESS, James W. 9/19/1919 8/29/1975 Brother
BURGESS, June 9/1/1912 9/1/1912 Daughter; originally buried in Kaolin Cemetery; reinterred 2/19/1935
BURGESS, Lucille 4/27/1909 3/3/1990 In Loving Memory
BURGESS, Roy 5/8/1922 5/12/1944 Pvt 362 Inf. 91 Inf. Div. WWII
BURKEY, Timothy Earl 1965 2006  
BUSHMAN, Keith T. 3/13/1984 10/31/2002 His life was meaningful to many
BUSH, Vernard Franklin 11/1/1933 1/15/1997 SSgt US Air Force, Korea
BUSKEE, Holly May 5/6/1984 5/2/1991 Mother, Nancey K. Cooper
BUTLER, Arch B. 9/27/1911 2/4/1977 Dad
C
CARLOW, Clifford D. 1921 1979  
CARLOW, Edgar 1894 1977  
CASE, Bradford E. 10/28/1961 5/25/1980 U.S.N. Midshipman
CHASE, J. Paul
CHASE, Shirley H.		 5/5/1923
1/3/1925		 4/30/2005
9/30/2002		 Married 9/22/1943; Memories
CHRISTENSEN, Jasen Joseph 5/6/1962 3/15/1979  
CLARKE, Charles W.
WINTERS, Bertha M.		 1/23/1917
2/19/1925		 9/15/1986
12/29/1987		 Friends Forever
CLEGG, Ernest Wayne Hafner 8/27/1927 2/17/1972 Beloved Father, Rest in Peace; V.F.W.
CLEGG, Gordon Doyle
CLEGG, Thelma Joy Tobler		 11/12/1929
11/6/1930		 9/4/2002
8/14/1999		 Sealed 3/10/1950
CLEMENTS, John
CLEMENTS, Lucinda		 2/28/1917
10/24/1916		 1/29/1978
7/6/1978		  
CLEVENGER, Sarah Jane O'Dell 9/23/1858 10/17/1902 Mother
COLSTON, Hazel V.
COLSTON, Lonnie E.		 3/10/1915
5/4/1917		 8/5/1998
4/24/1992		  
COMERFORD, Joseph F. 1904 1975 Beloved Father; To know him was to love him
CONGER, Arvella Cooley 6/17/1896 7/13/1984  
CONGER, Carrie I.
CONGER, Elijah H.		 1880
1878		 6/1966*
1951		 Mother
Father
CONGER, Doris Woodson
CONGER, Earnest Rudgar		 5/23/1922
8/28/1919		 11/15/1987
11/11/1990		 Mother, Father
CONGER, Hicksey C. M. 12/20/1850 7/16/1915 Mother
CONGER, Maybelle Lewis
CONGER, Samuel Dave		 5/8/1888
2/12/1883		 11/22/1927
11/30/1969		 Mother, Father
CONGER, William E. 7/4/1892 12/7/1968 Utah, SC2 US Navy, WWI
CONGER, William J. 5/8/1858 12/14/1943 Father
CONGER, William L. 1/12/1902 2/4/1968 Nevada, MM3 US Navy, WWII
COOPER, Alta N.
COOPER, Richard		 4/5/1895
12/27/1885		 12/1/1968
1/18/1979		 Mother; Married June 9, 1921; Father
COOPER, Carol M. 1925 2002 Married 9/30/1945
COOPER, Joseph F. 7/2/1888 9/5/1917  
COOPER, Linda   8/26/1969 Our Little Teddy Bear
COOPER, Mendis D. 7/18/1847 11/13/1904  
COOPER, M. Wesley 11/6/1912 3/21/1940  
COOPER, Reed N. 8/10/1928 11/28/2000  
COOPER, Thomas Knox
COOPER, Udine Winn		 8/18/1910
3/17/1917		 2/25/1990
12/3/2005		 Married 56 Years; Sweethearts Forever
COOPER, Tom Marious 12/18/1963 8/9/1965 Our Darling
COOPER, Truman R. 8/10/1891 12/16/1991 Pvt; US Marine Corps WWI
COOPER, Vernon Merril 7/20/1904 4/23/1981 SK3 US Navy WWII
COOPER, Vienna A. 1882 1914 Mother
COX, Elmina 9/5/1870 11/22/1870 Sacred to
COX, Hazel M. 2/11/1893 9/4/1898 In Memory of; Daughter of David J. & Emma E. Cox
COX, Lucinda Adeline
2nd Photo (1)		 5/12/1863 9/6/1865  
COX, Lucy Elizabeth 1/24/1866 7/2/1867  
COX, Phileman (1) 1/21/1855 2/13/1868  
COX, Rubye Lenon 4/13/1894 11/23/1993 Grandma; Love-Grandchildren
CROSBY, Minnie Bauer 7/12/1844 10/19/1906  

* Date from SSDI
(1) Photo by Patricia Scott

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