Rowe Cemetery - Crawford County

Rowe Cemetery
AKA - Iowa Lutheran / Jepsen Crawford County, Kansas

Directions to cemetery are 1 mile east of Pittsburg,Ks off of 4th St. and 3/4 mile south on west side of road
ROWE Cemetery - Crawford Co.Ks near Pittsburg,Ks
Special thanks to Barbara Jobes for finding the name of this cemetery and furnishing list of stones not readable or gone now.

** stone exists today**
^fence or stone is there but unreadable^
# not listed in Tombstones of Crawford Co.
$ no stone

Walked April 7 and 14,2002. Abandoned cemetery no longer accepting burials May have been also known by Iowa Lutheran Cemetery and Jepsen Cemetery Submitted by Carol Brooks

Picture of the entrance to Rowe Cem. taken 5/15/2002.Some one had mowed around the stones. I have pictures I will share of all the stones left.
The cemetery veers to the right after this and a path mowed to graves in the back. I am still sure there are more stones there to be found.
Carol

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BORN	DIED	REMARKS
Beeson	Georgie E.	4/04/1896	7/16/1896	d/o H.S.& M.E.**
Burns	Charles M.	4/01/1888	3/23/1898**
Colles	4 infants			infants^fence only no stones^
Coxs	George W.	11/25/1889	9/09/1893	s/o D.& M.** #
Coxs	Jas.E.	6/25/1895	1897	** #
Dittman	Bertha	geb den 11 ten Nov.1889	gest den 9 ten Sep 1890	(german)Toch Von A.und D. very faded only name is really readable**
Ermel	Charles	Oct? 25 1880 d. ?/24/1890		s/o C.& J.** very poor condition
Ermel	Emma J.	5/19/1888	4/04/1892	**
Gle--ze	Charles	9/25/1888	10/24/1890	$
Kielhorn	Marie	geb den 1 ten Marz 1884	11 ten Okt.1888	** poor shape
Klocher?		geb den 6 Jan 1890	geft den 1890	see church record at bottom of page
Meyer	Christina	frau dess Johann	Starb den 2/11/1900	alter 56 jahre** good shape
Morgan	William M.		8/23/1876	age 1 yr.8 mo.24 da. son of J & A M** #

Many many stones unreadable, sunken places,etc
stories of several Native American Children buried there as well

Listed in Iowa Lutheran Church records of burials at Rowe Cem.

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	BORN	DIED	REMARKS
Gretschel	Oscar	3/02/1842	5/05/1890 ^
Bordenhagen	Johann Claus	3/25/1888	7/19/1889^
Schmidt	Emma	6/14/1888	9/07/1889^	buried 1890
Dittman	Bertha	11/24/1889	9/10/1890 **	see above
Kloechner	Heinrieh Johann Karl Ottokar	1/06/1890	9/24/1890 ^	see above
Gleitze	Karl	9/25/1888	10/25/1890 ^	see above Gle--ze buried 1891
Theis	Emma Amelia		11/16/1891 ^	child
Bredehoeft	Claus	7/25/1815	12/28/1891^	buried 1892
Ermel	Emma Juliane	5/19/1888	4/06/1892**
Utermoehlen	Ludwig Karl		12/28/1982^	buried 1893
Kubler	Friedericka Louisa	11/22/1892	7/16/1893^	buried 1895
Maier	Jacob Wilhelm	2/04/1895	7/06/1895	buried 1899
Kubler	Amma Maria	3/06/1898	7/06/1899 ^	buried 1900
Mayer	Christene Dorthea(Oseterle)	1843	2/12/1900**

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