Raridon Cemetery
Also known as Barbee Cemetery
Baxter, Jasper County, Iowa, USA
This pioneer cemetery is also known as Barbee Cemetery. It was a neighborhood graveyard and never established as a public cemetery. There is one readable stone, some bases of old stones and many unmarked burials. John and Olive Barbee is the only remaining standing stone in this cemetery. The base of the stone has BARBEE and at the top of the base the name BELLANGER. Two other bases remain, but have no inscription. The area was dowsed and as many as 20 other burials may be in this location.
The ground surrounding the site is being farmed. Access is by foot, down a ditch, over a fence and through a farm field. Trees mark the location at the top of a hill. The cemetery itself is a tangle of weeds and stone. untended and endangered.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1999715 (Barbee Cemetery / Raridon Cemetery).
This pioneer cemetery is also known as Barbee Cemetery. It was a neighborhood graveyard and never established as a public cemetery. There is one readable stone, some bases of old stones and many unmarked burials. John and Olive Barbee is the only remaining standing stone in this cemetery. The base of the stone has BARBEE and at the top of the base the name BELLANGER. Two other bases remain, but have no inscription. The area was dowsed and as many as 20 other burials may be in this location.
The ground surrounding the site is being farmed. Access is by foot, down a ditch, over a fence and through a farm field. Trees mark the location at the top of a hill. The cemetery itself is a tangle of weeds and stone. untended and endangered.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1999715 (Barbee Cemetery / Raridon Cemetery).
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- Added: 23 Jun 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2359240
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