Pioneer Hill Memorial Cemetery
Established 1865
Overton, Nevada
36.560140°-114.439473°

Photo by Gerry Perry


All photographs donated by CHASE RICHARDS of Henderson, Nevada
(JULY, 2006 Copyright) unless indicated otherwise
An Eagle Scout Project
Updates by Gerry Perry, copyright 2011


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
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  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		  
2 KELLY, A. Louise 10/24/1922 8/3/2011 Beloved Wife, Mom and Grandma
  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
2 KENEMORE, Dolores Lee 2/2/1942 9/22/2009  
  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  
2 LEATHAM-SETTERFIELD, Verla Jean Chambers 12/30/1930 12/20/2009  
  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.
LEAVITT, Ute Perkins
Back of stone		 9/18/1922
7/25/1934		 11/11/1999
12/114/2006		  
  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  
2 LYON, Dorothy Bowman
LYON, Warren McLachlan
Back of stone		 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  
2 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  
2 MARTIN, Francis Rufus
MARTIN, Ila L. McDonald		 7/7/1911
8/11/1912		 1/19/2001
11/24/2005		 Loving Parents - Grandparents
2 MAY, Jay Allen
Closeup
Back of stone		 12/27/1938 2/20/2011 Married 12/19/1964
  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 listed 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
2 MESSER, Nelda Carol 11/26/1940 12/14/2008 Grandma
  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
2 MULHOLLAND, Jean 1913 2008 Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother
  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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(2) Photo by Gerry Perry

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