Cemeteries at Monroe, Iowa in 1910 Map

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

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

The Seay Cemetery contains only old pioneer 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: I 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, W.W. Moore,  W. Seay, Otelie and Samantha Seay, ? Wright, and J.H. Woody.

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

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, many of us local kids would spent time there fishing and occasionally swimming!  We would ride out from town and leave our bikes by the fence near the gravel road, and walk along the edge of Gifford cemetery and over a fence and down to the pond).

Red Rock, Iowa Cemetery, high on a bluff north and west and overlooking the mile-long-bridge between Monroe and Knoxville, Iowa, the Des Moines River (now Red Rock Lake) can be viewed from the area.

View a 1999 picture of "Red Rock Cemetery" near "Mile Long Bridge" south of Monroe, Iowa.

The old pioneer town of Red Rock, Iowa was a  thriving river town in the pioneer days. The town of Red Rock, Iowa's location was about a half mile west of the "Mile Long Bridge" bridge on Highway 14 between Monroe and Knoxville, Iowa.

Red Rock, Iowa came to an end in 1968/1969 with the creation of the Red Rock Dam and Lake. The Red Rock Dam and resulting Red Rock lake were constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers as a flood and erosion control reservoir and became Iowa's largest body of water when filled.

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 "Tool's Chapel" area. The little white church known as "Tool's Chapel" was later converted to an antique store.

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