MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) — Commissions that oversee some of Iowa’s oldest pioneer cemeteries are struggling to accommodate requests for new burials. To qualify as a pioneer cemetery under rules ...

A faded sign marks the Bloomington Cemetery, a pioneer cemetery just north of Ames, and a 172-year-old slice of American history that has faded into time and memory. Occasionally over the decades, ...

Iowa Code 523I.102 - 'Pioneer cemetery” means a cemetery where there were twelve or fewer burials in the preceding fifty years. With hundreds of tiny pioneer cemeteries in Iowa, the prospect of ...

A scant few hundred yards north of Liberty High School sits a little-known pioneer graveyard, the final resting place of 47 Johnson County settlers from the 1800s. It’s the Alt Cemetery, owned by Penn ...

We all want to be remembered for what we've accomplished in life, but the reality is that stories will fade away unless someone keeps them alive.Watch video of this storyIn Wayne County, a big group ...

Commissions that oversee some of Iowa's oldest pioneer cemeteries are struggling to accommodate requests for new burials. To qualify as a pioneer cemetery, there must be fewer than 12 burials in the ...