Lamoni Rose Hill Cemetery

The first pages of each logbook are preface pages (if any) followed by the index pages which are grouped by first letter of last name. Each indexed name is followed by the page number of that person's funeral record. Page 1 of the funeral record is the page following the last index page. For those who are accessing individual JPG files for each page, those filenames begin with 'i' for preface/index pages or 'p' for funeral record pages, with the page sequence number in the latter part of the filename. All logbook pages shown here are based on lower-resolution scans. High resolution versions of each page exist and are available on request.

Although Wm. A. Hopkins was the first undertaker in the newly incorporated city of Lamoni in 1885, he sold that and his furniture business to A. Otis White in 1900 who purchased professional funeral logbooks and started using them in June 1901. His son, Rollin White, worked in the casket business and later took over as Funeral Director and owner of the White Furniture Company. In 1941 he sold the funeral business to William Marsh to devote attention to his furniture company, but continued to advise and assist Marsh who used the name White-Marsh Funeral Home and later Marsh Funeral Home. In the early 1900s, this was the most prominent funeral home in Lamoni.

Years after White-Marsh was no longer in business Rose Hill caretaker, Carl Green, saw nine funeral logbooks in a trash bin and rescued them. Carl was known to give copies of individual funeral records to visitors researching their ancestors at Rose Hill. After Carl's death his son Steve had possession and protected them until giving them to the Rose Hill Cemetery records manager to make them publicly accessible.

Donations are welcome to complete this work on the remaining logbooks. It costs approximately $350 per logbook to have it professionally imaged.

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