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Oak Hill Cemetery

Also known as James C Jordan Family Cemetery

West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA

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Get directions 2251 Fuller Road
West Des Moines, Iowa 50265 United States

Coordinates: 41.56145, -93.73569
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Originally the James C. Jordan family cemetery, this cemetery is the burial place of many of the original settlers of what is now West Des Moines, Ia. and of other pioneers passing through the area. Started in the early 1800's, the burials ended around 1880. Jordan family members were buried here and then later (around 1880) moved to the new Jordan Cemetery at 2950 Fuller Road in West Des Moines, Ia. (both areas of land were owned by James C. Jordan). Thought to only contain a few graves after the family members were moved, a Ground Penetrating Radar Study (GPR) done in 2016 shows there are many, many people still buried throughout the hill---not just inside the white picket fence. Unfortunately, due to vandalism in the mid-1900's when all the gravemarkers that were still there were broken and displaced from the graves, only a few broken pieces of markers have been found. Placement of the markers is most likely not where the actual graves are.

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