Pioneer CemeteryOverton,

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.

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS
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TABLER, Samuel Elias	10/23/1878	3/8/1970	Husband
TANNER, Brandi Lyn	7/14/1971	9/22/1991	Fly to the Angels
TANNER, Hannah Marie		9/3/1993	Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
TANNER, LaVar Robert	4/6/1915	8/5/1998
THACKER, Elsie S. THACKER, Oscar LeRoy Temporary	2/15/1901 2/21/1893	6/28/1989 12/12/1971	Mason Symbol
THOMAS, Cora (Miss)	12/24/1892	9/27/1907
THOMAS, Hubert Joshua	1885	1959	LDS
THOMAS, John M. THOMAS, Sarah A.	1849 1853	1934 1944
THOMAS, Louisa C.	1876	1960	LDS
THOMAS, Lamond H.	1893	1969	Beloved Father-Brother
THOMAS, Magnolia	1889	1906	Beloved Daughter-Sister
THOMAS, Mary Crosby	3/27/1882	5/3/1914	Mother
THOMAS, Sherman A.	4/2/1872	5/6/1960	At Rest
THOMPSON, Hazel A. Platt	12/28/1905	3/28/1988	Beloved Wife & Sister
THOMPSON, Vivian	1/6/1921	3/3/1983	Beloved Husband
THORNTON, Benjamin F.	1/5/1890	9/4/1966	Texas, Pvt. HQ Co. 136 Infantry WWI
THORNTON, Franklin W.	9/28/1930	3/19/1951	Nevada BT3 US Navy
THORNTON, Jennie Ivy	4/25/1903	10/17/1963	Mother
THORNTON, Verna R.	3/21/1932	7/5/1999
TOBLER, Effie	12/23/1901	5/24/1969
TOBLER, LeRoy	1/2/1901	8/11/1954
TOWNS, Arnold Peter, Sr.	1894	1990
TROMBLEY, Timothy J.	1955	2006
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UTLEY, Margaret Anne	5/29/1920	12/13/2001	Married 12/18/1939
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VAN FEDDER, Eli	1951	1996
VAN RENSELAAR, H.	1920	1920
VAN RENSELAAR, Thelma	1909	1909
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WALLACE, Robert Graham	1835	1900	lds
WARD, Frances Louise	1919	1965
WAYMIRE, Jack B.	1913	1993
WAYMIRE, Robert Augustus	1/13/1907	10/5/1989
WEST, Annie Clive	1/30/1901	1/11/1985
WEST, Carl Ransom	1895	1941
WEST, Everett Durwood	1904	1952
WEST, Floyd W.	1897	1960
WEST, Mary Ann	1873	1955
WEST, Phyllis	1/20/1933	7/14/1933
WEST, Ransom W.	1873	1913
WHEELER, Robert E.	10/20/1920	6/11/1987	Sgt US Army, WWII, Korea
WHIPPLE, Blanche	7/3/1923	7/13/1923	Infant daughter of Jesse & Alta Whipple
WHITMORE, Lynn S.	9/11/1898	5/9/1983	In loving memory
WHITMORE, Pearl Perkins	6/25/1903	4/10/2000	In loving memory
WHITMORE, William G. HARRIS-WHITMORE, Elsie F.	4/26/1952 2/25/1923	4/18/1999 2/26/1998	Our Beloved Mother, Son
WILKINSON, Robert S.	3/3/1940	3/6/2004	Keep on Truckin'; US Navy
WILY, William Reed	3/24/1948	2/17/1969	Son
WINTER, Arnold L.	1917	1989
WINTERS, Bertha M. CLARKE, Charles W.	2/19/1925 1/23/1917	12/29/1987 9/15/1986	Friends Forever
WORTHEN, Jimmy	1936	2005
WYNANT, Melanie Marie Haigler	6/15/1991	7/25/1991	Luv u/4ever
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YAMASHITA, Roma	2/21/1934	9/13/1934

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