| The first cemetery
in Jordan was located on the D.J. Tierney farm on the west side of
Jordan where the Pioneer Cemetery is
today. This cemetery was not organized and in November 1916 the
Greenridge Cemetery Association was formed and the land surveyed.
The land comprising the Greenridge Cemetery was formerly owned by A.E.
Panwitz, who sold 10 acres to the cemetery association for $200.
This association consisted of Mrs. H.D. Huff, D.J. Tierney, and Dr.
David A. Baker.
By the mid 1920's the people involved in
the bookkeeping for the cemetery association had moved away taking the
cemetery records, and money, with them. Greenridge was not kept up
as the cemetery west of town was again used. Other than one
family, there have been no burials in Greenridge since the 1930's.
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Greenridge Cemetery
Jordan in background on right |
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Grave marker of Milton Gosley, Civil War
Veteran |
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The cemetery has been fenced in the last
several years, although the south part of the cemetery lies outside the
fence. There are no markers outside the fence but there is a large
depression in what would be the south-west corner of the cemetery.
An old map shows small lots in this corner (but no names) and may be
where children are buried whose graves have not been located. It
is also told that, following an outbreak of Smallpox, a number were
buried off to themselves and may explain why these graves are hundreds
of feet from any others.
There are 56 marked graves in the
cemetery. An early map was found in the courthouse that listed
most of the marked graves and about 40 more. This map was very
hard to read and some of it was not legible. Between markers, the
map, death records, and obituaries, the names of over 100 people buried
in Greenridge are known. |
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| Name |
Birth |
Death |
Comments |
| Allyn, Russell |
1894 |
1922 |
unmarked |
| Atwood, Allen H. |
1863 |
1927 |
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| Baker, Jewul M. |
1913 |
1917 |
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| Barnes, baby girl |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Mary |
| Barnett, James Marshall |
1857 |
1917 |
unmarked |
| Biango, Kurt |
1886 |
1918 |
unmarked |
| Blood, Mary (Vincent) |
1854 |
1918 |
unmarked |
| Bogie, baby boy |
1918 |
1918 |
unmarked, child of M.A. |
| Boline, John Harder |
1882 |
1919 |
unmarked |
| Brittain, John |
1884 |
1922 |
unmarked |
| Broughton, William H. |
1886 |
1966 |
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| Burnett, Martin Lewis |
1922 |
1923 |
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| Chevalier, Joseph M. |
1865 |
1921 |
unmarked |
| Clark, William James |
1834 |
1920 |
unmarked |
| Coltom, Karoline (Jorg) |
1860 |
1924 |
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| Coltom, Oscar F. |
1885 |
1933 |
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| Curfman, Archibald G. |
1843 |
1919 |
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| Curfman, Rachel P. (Young) |
1847 |
1928 |
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| Davenport, Mary |
1923 |
1923 |
not located, child of William |
| Dent, Mary S. |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Edgar |
| Derenberger, Milford M. |
1916 |
1918 |
child of Martin |
| Derenberger, John |
1878 |
1932 |
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| Derenberger, Martin E. |
1881 |
1919 |
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| Derenberger, Mary A. (Turner) |
1876 |
1959 |
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| Doughty, John C. |
1846 |
1921 |
unmarked |
| Eblinger, Laura (Koch) |
1895 |
1918 |
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| Evans, Howard Robert |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Howard |
| Farrow, Winfield S. |
1851 |
1923 |
unmarked |
| Feigle, Theodore |
1894 |
1917 |
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| Fellman, Dalton Royal |
1920 |
1920 |
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| Fox, Orris Stanley |
1888 |
1918 |
unmarked |
| Freeman, Marie Elizabeth |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Harley |
| Gibson, Alvin |
1914 |
1919 |
child of George |
| Gosley, Milton M. |
1841 |
1917 |
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| Grant, Mary (McPherson) |
1844 |
1920 |
unmarked |
| Gustafson, John |
|
1924 |
not located |
| Haley, Clyde |
|
1916 |
not located |
| Hall, Edward C. |
1853 |
1925 |
unmarked |
| Hatch, Edwin W. |
1856 |
1921 |
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| Hendershott, Margaretta
(Montgomery) |
1888 |
1924 |
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| Henton, baby |
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unmarked |
| Hopkins, Syrelda |
1866 |
1922 |
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| Howe, Francis |
1893 |
1918 |
unmarked |
| Jessen, baby boy |
1934 |
1934 |
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| Jessen, Pearl Laura |
1925 |
1938 |
child of Henry |
| Kilkiney, baby |
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child of Rollin |
| Kite, Charles C. |
1871 |
1957 |
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| Kite, Mary E. (Mitchell) |
1881 |
1934 |
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| Kite, Zane C. |
1923 |
1923 |
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| Lamphear, Arthur F. |
1903 |
1933 |
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| Lamphear, Earl |
1897 |
1918 |
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| Lay, Mary A. |
1840 |
1917 |
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| Lee, A.Jerry |
1915 |
1919 |
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| Lee, Annie B. (Peterson) |
1891 |
1921 |
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| Lee, Jown W. |
1886 |
1939 |
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| Lervick, Melville |
1919 |
1924 |
child of George |
| Long, Anna Elizabeth |
1920 |
1926 |
not located, child of Joe |
| Long, William Henry |
1849 |
1927 |
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| Loomis, Alma (Archey) |
1901 |
1917 |
unmarked |
| Loomis, Emma Louise |
1866 |
1927 |
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| Loomis, Kirt |
1875 |
1941 |
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| Maben, Luther B. |
1851 |
1927 |
unmarked |
| MacDonald, George Alexis |
1922 |
1922 |
not located, child of Joe |
| Matheson, Emmeret James |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Eva |
| Matheson, Eva (Maben) |
1888 |
1920 |
unmarked |
| McCloskey, Mary (Acord) |
1849 |
1928 |
unmarked |
| Meckel, Martha (Cowdoy) |
1861 |
1920 |
unmarked |
| Miller, Mary S. (Kite) |
1868 |
1922 |
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| Mochom, Louise |
1911 |
1918 |
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| Moore, Jennie (Lewis) Travis |
1877 |
1922 |
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| Morrow, Clayton |
1917 |
1919 |
unmarked, son of Clayton |
| Morton, Anna (Norton) |
1857 |
1920 |
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| Morton, Drura Hinkle |
1852 |
1924 |
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| Morton, Edward |
1894 |
1951 |
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| Morton, Geisher Edgar |
1919 |
1919 |
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| Osborn, Sylvia F. |
1918 |
1918 |
child of Alva
"Pete" |
| Paterson, Daniel W. |
1856 |
1923 |
unmarked |
| Petterson, Louis |
1860 |
1916 |
unmarked |
| Raymond, Rosa (Hogan) |
1849 |
1922 |
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| Reister, Freida J. |
1909 |
1920 |
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| Rothermel, Nellie |
1882 |
1972 |
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| Smith, Alphonsus L. |
1868 |
1920 |
not located |
| Smithson, Charles |
1895 |
1918 |
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| Sonnenberg, Talmage |
1920 |
1921 |
child of Albert |
| Sparlin, Marguerite |
1895 |
1920 |
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| Thomas, Stnley William |
1914 |
1918 |
unmarked, child of Elmer |
| Tupper, Elizabeth |
1914 |
1918 |
unmarked, child of W.H. |
| Turnbull, Walter T. |
1870 |
1920 |
unmarked |
| Turner, baby |
1918 |
1918 |
child of Arthur |
| Turner, George W. II |
1889 |
1932 |
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| Turner, George W. III |
1933 |
1933 |
child of George W. II |
| Verholz, baby boy |
1921 |
1921 |
unmarked, child of Leonard |
| Verholz, Richard Daniel |
1920 |
1920 |
unmarked, child of Leonard |
| Watson, baby |
|
1917 |
unmarked, child of Levi |
| White, Kate (Finley) |
1879 |
1919 |
unmarked |
| Williams, James Henry |
1836 |
1929 |
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| Williams, Carrie (Broughton) |
1892 |
1966 |
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| Williams, Cyrus |
1875 |
1970 |
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| Williams, Elizabeth (Wright) |
1840 |
1925 |
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| Williams, W.M. |
1874 |
1961 |
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| Womble, Willabell |
1914 |
1917 |
unmarked, child of John |
| Woodward, Mary Jane (Allen) |
1832 |
1926 |
not located |
This page was last updated on May 22, 2000
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