Stoker-Graybill Cemetery in Council Bluffs, Iowa

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Get directions Cedar Lane
Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503 United States

Coordinates: 41.25326, -95.77518
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The burials in the Stoker - Graybill Cemetery are of family members who came to Council Bluffs with the Mormon migration from Nauvoo, Illinois in 1846-1847. Due to the fact that this cemetery was not on land owned by the Stokers and Graybills, speculation holds that some members of the family were camped here in their oxen drawn wagons when a family member died and was buried at the campsite. Afterwards, the family continued to use this site as their burial ground for fifty years. The last burial appears to have been that of Margaret Judd Stoker in 1893.

The farm land surrounding the cemetery changed hands in 1883 which prompted George W. Graybill to purchase the 6/10th of an acre cemetery to preserve it. He secured good title to this land and then deeded it to the public. The relevant deed is recorded at the Pottawattamie Court House in Council Bluffs in Deed Book #149, page 155.