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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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
RIGGS, Rita M. 1924 2000  
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  
ROBISON, Benjamin John "BJ" 8/4/1982 8/11/2005 Beloved Son, Brother, Uncle & Friend
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
ROTH, George Benjamin (1) 1897 1976 (Military) Sgt US Army WWI
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SANDSTROM, Fred R. 4/9/1931 5/26/1997 Married 2/14/1991; Absent from the body; present with the Lord
SANSINENA, Mathieu 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  
SCOTT, Eileen 3/19/1946 4/2/1997 In Loving Memory
SCOTT, Reed 4/23/1912 12/4/1997 Married 9/30/1933; Children: Wayne, Betty Jean, Barbara, Eileen, Kay, Lamont
SCOTT, Warren C. 3/18/1912 10/25/1972  
SETTERFIELD, Floyd Merlyn 10/15/1922 2/15/2001  
SEWELL, William F. 1887 1962  
SHARTRAND, Mary E. 5/28/1921 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
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
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 A. 5/4/1855 7/16/1922 Father
SWAPP, John Aderson
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

(1) Photo by Patricia Scott

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