Walnut Hill Cemetery (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Walnut Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The land for the cemetery was platted in 1860, with thirty acres being dedicated to that purpose, and a major reorganization was carried out in the early 1910s.[1]

Image described as a "choice section" of Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1914.

Notable people interred there include Charles Edward Swanson (1879–1970), William Henry Mills Pusey (1826–1900), Joseph Rea Reed (1835–1925), and Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831–1916).

References

  1. "Remodeling and Modernizing an Old Cemetery", Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening (1914), pp. 68–70.
  • GNIS data 41°16′17″N 95°49′27″W
  • Walnut Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave
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