Cemeteries at Monroe, Iowa in 1910 Map

USGS Information showing approximate Location of "Pendroy Cemetery" near Otley, Iowa.

View a picture of Gifford Cemetery just east of Monroe Iowa.

1999 picture of Red Rock Cemetery near "Mile Long Bridge" 5 Mi. So Monroe.

Silent City Cemetery is the current town cemetery at Monroe Iowa. It also contains many pioneer era burials in its original sections. It is at the SW edge of the city limits adjacent to suburban areas which have grown fairly close to it.

Gifford Cemetery has mostly pioneer and older graves and was pretty much filled years ago. This small cemetery is mostly surrounded by farmland today, and is about a half mile outside of town eastward.

(A little stroll down memory lane.......Gifford cemetery is on a hill 1/2 mile east of Monroe, Iowa that looked out over a small farm pond called Shaw's Pond in the 1950's. As a youth, the author and friends and brothers spent a goodly amount of there fishing and swimming!  We would leave our bikes in the cemetery under a large Oak tree up by the gravel road and gate, and walk through the cemetery and over a fence and down to the pond.

Silent City, and Gifford are both considered public town and area Cemeteries today.

The Seay Cemetery contains all very old burials and does not have public access to it. Many early pioneer families of Monroe, including the pioneer Tool family   which founded Monroe, Iowa are in Seay cemetery. It is a quite small Cemetery.

Author Note: Visited Seay Cemetery May 1999. These persons names are on standing tombstones today.  Noah Fouts, Adam M. Tool, Ezra Woody,  Washington Fleenor, AJ Wright, Lewis Pender, Adam A. Fleenor-son of William,   William S. Gannon-died1859, James A. Tool -age 85 and sons, WW Moore, W. Seay, Otelie and Samantha Seay, ? Wright, and J.H. Woody.

Fairview Cemetery is another local cemetery located 4 or 5 miles east of Monroe in an area along the South Skunk River near what is known as the "Tools Chapel" area. The old white church known as Tool's chapel was converted to an antique store and is owned by a long time family from that area east of Monroe.

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