Nichols Cemetery, Pike Twp, Muscatine Co. IA-History and Surname Selection Links

Nichols Cemetery

Pike Twp, Section 14
Nichols, Iowa


Directions to Nichols Cemetery: One mile east of Nichols on south side of Highway 22.
Our original listing of this cemetery came from research at the Musser Public Library in Muscatine and the old WPA Cemetery surveys of the 1930's.  It was resurveyed recently by Eleanor B. McCleary & Charlene Nichols Hixon, who prepared and submitted the following description and listing.  Items in red on the burial listing are from our original research and may or may not appear in the book

Pike Township Cemetery Records, Muscatine County, IA  March 1836 - March  2001
by Eleanor B. McCleary & Charlene Nichols Hixon.
The book contains more information than we have available online
(click the link to the book to see the table of contents and ordering information)

The following information was submitted 17 May 2001 by Eleanor B. McCleary & Charlene Nichols Hixon


NICHOLS CEMETERY

Nichols Cemetery began as a “gentleman’s agreement” that a secluded knoll on land owned by Samuel Nichols,
would be designated as a community cemetery. However it was not formally noted as such until Townsend Nichols,
Samuel’s grandson, sold the land to Pike Township trustees for one dollar “for the purpose and use as a Township
cemetery for all time to come.” The deed is on record at the Muscatine County Recorders Office: Book of Lands 41, dated 4 January 1897. The Original Section has also been referred to as “Swickard Cemetery” and “Nichols Summit Cemetery.”

On 20 Oct 1911, Townsend Nichols sold another parcel of land to Pike Township Trustees, again for one dollar
(Muscatine County Recorders Office; Book of Lands 57). This area was platted as the First Additon to Nichols
Cemetery dated December 1912.

Susie M. Green, Samuel’s granddaughter, also sold land to Pike Township Trustees to serve as an expansion of the
cemetery. The Warranty Deed is listed in the Book of Lands 75, dated 8 March 1929.

Plat of Second Addition to Nichols Cemetery was done June 30, 1937. Third, Fourth, and Fifth Additions were
surveyed in 1984. No burials have been made in the Fourth and Fifth Additions as of the date of this writing.

Inside the cover of the burial register of Nichols Cemetery was a hand written note by Mrs. D.H. Marine that “there are many unmarked graves that we have no names of in the South East Corner of the older part.” Mr. Marine was Sexton from 1928 to 1953.

Further inquires may be addressed to the Nichols Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 100, Nichols, IA 52766

Please note: Information presented in this publication was compiled from data from the Cemetery Register books in
the office of the Cemetery Superintendent as well as information read from grave markers.



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Photographs of Nichols Cemetery


Muscatine Co Cemetery Index

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