Pioneer Cemetery
Overton, Nevada


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(JULY, 2006 Copyright) unless indicated otherwise
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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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NAME BIRTH DEATH COMMENTS
K
KEATE, Donna Jean Gibbons 9/8/1930 9/13/1994 Married May 26, 1950; Children- Mike, Craig, Margaret, Kristin, Robert, Barbara, Brian
KEATE, John E. "Jack"
KEATE, Olive L.		 1/28/1899
7/4/1908		 11/13/1985
12/1/1992		  
KELLAR, Cecil F.
KELLAR, Edna E.		 1895
1894		 1951
1974		  
KELLY, Jay 12/3/1921 3/10/1922 Originally buried in Kaolin; Reinterred 2/19/1935
KELLY, Lonnie D. 11/27/1916 6/6/1987 Capt. US Air Force, WWII, Korea
KING, Adon S. 6/29/1876 1/17/1911  
KING, Ferman 1906 1987  
KING, Harry E. 4/25/1918 3/5/1982 Cpl. US Army
KLINE, Elizabeth Anna 9/4/1901 7/6/1990 In Loving Memory; Aunt, Mother, Sister
KOCHERHANS, Martha S. 1887 1919  
KOVAL, Gary G. 10/1/1953 7/6/1997 Beloved Son and Brother
KRAMER, Clair
KRAMER, Mary		 2/20/1908
3/5/1915		 6/6/1996
5/23/2004		  
L
La DUKE, William Charles 1902 1988  
LAJOIE, Billie E. 1911 1973  
LANGFORD, Dorothy Risse
LANGFORD, Fountain Horace		 1/18/1909
8/18/1905		 12/28/1991
6/21/1987		 Married 6/9/1927
LANGFORD, Norma Rae 9/7/1935 9/18/1948 Our Darling Daughter
LANGFORD, William F. 9/11/1940 11/21/1958  
LEATHAM, Warren 6/27/1921 7/12/1991  
LEAVITT, Alton C.
LEAVITT, Zelma H.		 4/6/1906
5/15/1911		 8/23/1995
9/2/1989		 Married 11/18/1941
LEAVITT, A. Ralph
LEAVITT, Elise C.		 12/9/1889
12/8/1889		 11/29/1934
6/28/1931		  
LEAVITT, Alonzo T.
LEAVITT, Udora H.		 11/13/1862
11/29/1870		 7/31/1933
3/25/1954		  
LEAVITT, Eather M. 6/7/1910 6/9/1993 Married 11/2/1956; Sealed 3/21/1959; Joan, Judith, Naomi, John Loren, Sandra
LEAVITT, Edna Perkins
LEAVITT, Rodney Vaughn		 5/22/1918
6/8/1917		 4/13/2000
12/11/1981		 Mom, Dad; Families are forever; in memory of Gramps
LEAVITT, Lowell A. 9/18/1922 11/11/1999  
LEAVITT, Mary Burgess 7/24/1913 3/8/1986  
LEAVITT, Maurine Wittwer Farnsworth 5/1/1910 1/24/1991 Beloved Wife and Mother; Children Larry, Naureen, Darwin, Wayne
LEAVITT, Ralph 3/4/1926 3/4/1926  
LEAVITT, Vernell A. 10/10/1920 3/16/1957 Nevada Sgt 556 Base Unit AAF WWII
LEE, Alice   4/29/1920 At Rest
LEE, George Evan 2/26/1896 3/8/1924  
LEE, Robert Elliott 2/26/1892 9/13/1972 Nevada Pvt Co. K 317 Infantry WWI
LEE, Robert Warren 10/4/1921 7/9/2000 Lt. Col. US Army, WWII, Vietnam
LEE, Sarah Perkins 10/4/1893 12/7/1933 At Rest
LEWIS, C. A. "Sonny" 7/27/1918 4/22/1994 Sweethearts
LEWIS, Clarence A. 7/15/1893 9/18/1957  
LEWIS, David A. 6/8/1963 11/7/1969 Beloved Son
LEWIS, Emery Leonard
LEWIS, Jessie Winn		 1/24/1910
10/17/1912		 6/9/1999
11/14/1971		  
LEWIS, Lois Allen 4/7/1915 8/21/1989  
LEWIS, Lillian C. 8/1/1891 7/2/1991  
LEWIS, Naomi Henderson 10/24/1893 7/4/1920 Mother
LEWIS, Richard C. 7/5/1924 8/7/1947  
LOGAN, Clara L. 12/22/1909 12/31/1999  
LOGAN, George S. 12/12/1906 2/23/1973 Nevada MOMM1 US Navy WWII
LOWE, N. Van Renselaar 1894 1937  
LYON, Dorothy Bowman
LYON, Warren McLachlan		 1/21/1916
8/13/1911		 4/17/2000
7/14/2004		 Married 8/17/1937
LYON, Hannah M.
LYON, Warren H.		 3/6/1875
5/7/1870		 3/13/1966
8/24/1950		  
LYON, Rebecca 7/12/1954 12/12/1971  
LYTLE, Clara Perkins 1889 1979 Remembered With Love
LYTLE, Eleanor M. 12/20/1904 4/14/1984 Beloved Wife
LYTLE, Genevieve 8/18/1905 6/25/1907  
LYTLE, Grant Lawson 11/2/1922 10/9/2000 Married 7/2/1948; Sealed 6/5/1979; U. S. Navy, 1941-1946
LYTLE, Isabell 11/14/1917 1/1/1918  
LYTLE, John A. 8/12/1879 1/18/1962  
LYTLE, John V. 6/24/1911 1/10/1976  
LYTLE, Mary Virginia 6/21/1883 4/13/1970  
LYTLE, O. Talmage 3/23/1914 7/4/2004  
LYTLE, Verdell 1918 2003  
M
MARRIOTT, Elsie Benson 11/22/1915 9/16/1993 A very special companion
MARSHALL, Dave 12/7/1908 7/31/1956  
MARSHALL, David Edwin 7/5/1941 1/9/2000 See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!
MARSHALL, Elijah 3/15/1857 12/22/1907  
MARSHALL, Edwin 3/18/1882 6/25/1956 Father
MARSHALL, Elsie Reber 9/18/1912 12/9/1963  
MARSHALL, Israel Agnes 4/24/1887 6/14/1956 Mother
MARSHALL, Lloyd C. 2/28/1916 3/24/1934  
MARTIN, Francis Rufus
MARTIN, Ila L. McDonald		 7/7/1911
8/11/1912		 1/19/2001
11/24/2005		 Loving Parents - Grandparents
MAY, Richard J.
Temporary		 1/17/1929 11/23/1980 Dad; Married 3/23/1951
McCARL, Wayne Artis 9/9/1902 3/18/1958 Rest in Peace
McCARTNEY, Michael E. 1957 1960 LDS
McDONALD, Charles L.
McDONALD, Ruth M.		 3/4/1895
1/15/1903		 4/18/1990
8/18/1988		 Father; Mother; Married 8/11/1924
McDONALD, J. A.     (In prior survey, this person lsited as Joseph Arthur McDonald b.11/18/1887, d 12/14/1916)
McDONALD, Leon John 8/26/1897 9/9/1965 Utah; MUS 2 CL Hq CC 12 Pa WWI
McDONALD, Lucinda M. 12/11/1859 9/2/1939 Mother
McDONALD, Lyle K.
McDONALD, Maria D.		 5/25/1924
7/29/1925		 8/12/1996
4/14/2004		 Our Beloved Fahter & Grandfather; U.S. Navy, WWII; Married 1/12/1952; Our Beloved Mother & Grandmother
McDONALD, Mark L.
McDONALD, Marty C.		 10/23/1940
10/23/1940		 10/23/1940
10/24/1940		  
McDONALD, Nora A.
McDONALD, William H.		 1887
1886		 1973
1958		 Mother, Father
McDONALD, Wilda 8/16/1927 3/2/1929  
McDONALD, William L. 1/10/1922 5/30/1982 PHM2 US Navy, WWII
McENTIRE, Don T. "Mac"
McENTIRE, Elzie M.		 7/31/1913
10/23/1907		 6/2/1994
1/29/1998		 Husband, Wife
MEYERS, Emmitt Eugene
MEYERS, Wava Lee		 3/29/1905
12/14/1909		 2/21/1981
5/5/1997		  
MILLS, Ester Lucille Connelly Perkins 12/30/1906 4/21/1991  
MILLS, Floyd 1/14/1912 1/14/1912  
MILLS, Lyle 5/25/1904 7/7/1904  
MILLS, Willa 7/26/1906 2/10/1907  
MOHLER, Charles A.
MOHLER, Daisy		 12/12/1903
3/18/1903		 6/2/1985
6/11/1982		 Married 6/21/1923
MONROE, Charles W. 2/6/1923 1/5/1994 PFC, US Army WWII
MORALES, Lyn 1945 2002  
MOSLEY, William Lloyd 3/3/1890 3/18/1962 Nevada Cpl Co. B 316 Mil. Police, WWI
MOSS, Lenzi Ute 1/2/1954 4/2/1979 In memory of our dear Son & Brother
MURPHY, Mark Smith 7/10/1904 9/25/1919  
MURPHY, Rolly James 4/17/1903 10/7/1993 Pvt. US Army
MURPHY, William Francis 11/19/1860 7/22/1917  

 

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