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

Memorial (2)



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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  RAMIREZ Jesus S. 7/10/1892 3/30/1988 Con Todo Amor Departe De Su Familiars Por Ser Tan Bondadoso
  READ, Robert Louis 5/4/1928 9/10/1993 SSMGT, US Air Force, Vietnam
  RICHARDSON, Bernice P. 8/21/1903 5/1/1959  
  RICHARDSON, E. L. 1903 1961 Navy, WWI
  RIGGS, Faron W. 3/24/1917 5/22/1983 T Sgt US Army WWII
  RIGGS, Joseph B. 10/7/1900 6/5/1990 CM2 US Navy WWI & II
  RIGGS, Norval Timberline 10/27/1918 12/6/1989 'Snowball' S Sgt US Army WWII
2 RIGGS, Rita Marie 12/26/1924 6/25/2000 Loving Wife and Mother
  RIGGS, Sylvia A. Shurtliff
RIGGS, Timberline Wales		 10/24/1892
8/19/1890		 2/3/1976
11/25/1959		  
  RIGGS, Sylvia Beth 12/24/1925 8/17/1928 Originally buried in Kaolin Cemetery; reinterred 2/19/1935
  RIGGS, Verna G. 2/8/1897 9/30/1991 Beloved Wife, Mother and Granny
  ROBERTS, Charles A. 1878 1957  
  ROBERTS, Rachael C. 11/22/1880 6/26/1955  
2 ROBISON, A. Ray
ROBISON, Barbara Nay
Back of Stone		 10/7/1917
10/22/1921		 8/24/2009
11/26/2006		 Married 5/20/1940
2 ROBISON, Benjamin John "BJ"
Closeup		 8/4/1982 8/11/2005 Beloved Son, Brother, Uncle & Friend
2 ROBISON, Doris Agnes
ROBISON, Joe Ray		 12/24/1921
3/6/1927		 10/2/2009
12/7/2008		 Married 6/1/1970
  ROBISON, Joseph Benjamin 7/11/1892 3/29/1959  
  ROBISON, Mildred Andersen 5/20/1892 2/2/1980  
  ROBISON, Rula 3/21/1916 5/15/2005 Loving Mother
  ROHNER, Annie Louise 11/21/1875 3/7/1894 Mother
1 ROTH, George Benjamin 1897 1976 (Military) Sgt US Army WWI
  S
  SANDSTROM, Fred R. 4/9/1931 5/26/1997 Married 2/14/1991; Absent from the body; present with the Lord


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2		 SANSINENA, Mathieu
Back of Stone
Closeup		 12/16/1936 1/17/2005 The greatest joy I ever knew was loving you; Married 11/4/1965
  SCACCO, Joseph 7/24/1929 1/21/1985 Father
  SCHNEIDER, Edith 1909 1949 Beloved Wife and Mother
  SCHULTZ, Fred W. 8/16/1882 12/16/1971  
2 SCOTT, Beth Despain
SCOTT, Reed		 9/1/1915
4/23/1912		 7/27/2011
12/4/1997		 Married 9/30/1933
  SCOTT, Eileen 3/19/1946 4/2/1997 In Loving Memory
  SCOTT, Warren C. 3/18/1912 10/25/1972  
  SETTERFIELD, Floyd Merlyn 10/15/1922 2/15/2001  
  SEWELL, William F. 1887 1962  
2 SHARTRAND, Lawrence S.
SHARTRAND, Mary E.		 10/7/1919
5/28/1921		 5/9/2007
12/14/1990		 Married 6/13/1942
  SHEPARD, Flora May
SHEPARD, William Lee		 3/1/1912
6/27/1908		 2/3/1970
2/3/1970		 Wife, Husband
  SHEPPARD, Dorothy Ann
SHEPPARD, Jesse Perry		 4/5/1915

4/3/1891		 3/2/1997

7/6/1985		 b. Roosevelt, Az. d. Jackson, Ca. Daughter of Charles Orville Granger, Edith Ann Van Natta
b. Medenia, Tx; d. Overton, Nv. Son of a First Texas Minuteman, William Alfred Sheppard, Lydia Crumer Curtis
  SHURTLIFF, Annie J.
SHURTLIFF, Lyman N.		 9/20/1868
10/29/1862		 1/30/1941
8/10/1927		 Lyman orginally buried in Kaolin Cemetery; reinterred 2/19/1935
  SHURTLIFF, Edna Simkins
SHURTLIFF, Lester Noble		 6/30/1906
10/21/1906		 9/24/1995
12/26/1991		 Mother, Father
  SHURTLIFF, Adelia Winsor
SHURTLIFF, Norman Ezra		 9/22/1898
7/4/1890		 8/25/1996
4/11/1965		  
  SIEVERT, Gustav G. 1888 1948 Beloved Husband; In loving memory
  SIEVERT, Hilda 12/19/1891 5/1/1985 Beloved Wife-Mother
  SIMMONS, Andrew C. 5/27/1916 6/7/1974 US Navy
  SMITH, Charlotte C. 4/1/1906 3/9/1930  
  SMITH, Helen Blanche
SMITH, W. A. "Bill"		 7/8/1909
6/12/1902		 1/31/1973
10/11/1974		  
  SMITH, James Monroe 5/1/1932 1/20/2004 Married 8/19/1955; Sealed 4/13/1991. Families are forever
  SMITH, Madeline Perkins 6/24/1937 2/4/1991 Married 36 years
  SNEED, Leo 1/1/1907 7/22/1973 Beloved Husband
  SNEED, Roxie Potter 4/11/1913 10/5/1992 Beloved wife and mother
  SNOREEN, George
SNOREEN, Marie		 1885
1897		 1970
1967		  
  SNOW, B. Irene
SNOW, Willard Van		 3/15/1929
5/20/1917		 1/26/1999
6/14/2001		 Married 10/15/1950
  SOPH, Lola McDonald 1/7/1910 4/26/1994 Loving Mother
  SPANDRI, John A. 4/16/1934 5/13/1991 Loving Parents-Grandparents
  SPOONER, Nola A. 1/8/1923 6/23/2005 Married 2/14/1975
2 STANLY, John 1962 2010  
  STINE, Ernest Franklin 3/10/1919 4/22/1986 Tec 5 US Army, WWII
  STRASSER, Alvin L. "Bill" 7/22/1929 12/13/1994 US Army, Vietnam
2 STRATTON, Eliza Briggs
Closeup		   1/8/1871 Wife of Jas. Stratton; Aged 35 Years
  SWAPP, Alexander 1877 1952  
  SWAPP, Alex Ether 3/5/1901 12/11/1969 Loving Husband and Father
  SWAPP, David Cameron 12/20/1904 5/7/1966  
  SWAPP, Geneve Reiser 9/14/1905 4/9/1964 Mother
  SWAPP, John Aderson
2nd Stone
SWAPP, Martha		 5/4/1855


2/5/1856		 7/18/1922


1/9/1939		  
  SWAPP, John H. 12/21/1902 12/5/1974 S1 US Navy
  SWAPP, Leonard Warren 10/14/1911 1/26/1912  
  SWAPP, Martha C. 2/5/1856 1/9/1939 Mother
  SWAPP, Rose Etta 3/17/1883 6/21/1973 Mother
  SWAPP, Stephen A. 1890 1911 LDS

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(2) Photo by Gerry Perry

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