Snider Cemetery Des Moines Twp., Dallas Co., Iowa Private cemetery (located ???) Snider Cemetery Search

Not able to find cemetery. From discussions with locals and other information it could have been on the corner of Bittersweet Rd. and the driveway displayed in photo above (between Wendover Ln. and 155^th Pl. - 1500 block of Bittersweet Rd.).

Couldn't locate ponds or old coal mines. Would guess they could be near the old railroad bed, which would make them south of Bittersweet Road.

Other information says Bittersweet Theater still stands at one of these two locations:

1. 1568 Bittersweet Rd., Woodward, IA.
2. 3085 191^st Dr., Granger, IA 50109

See map for possible locations of Snider Cemetery.

The following information was provided by the Iowa Genealogical Society, 6000 Douglas, P.O. Box 7735, Des Moines, Iowa 50322

SNIDER CEMETERY   near Woodward, Dallas, Iowa
Snyder Cemetery (private), Section 26, Des Moines Township, Dallas County, Iowa

• HOWLAND, John, d 19 Jul 1852, 62y 11m.
• SNIDER, Ann, wf of Phillip, d 23 Nov 1870, 60y 1m 4d.
• SNIDER, Clarence P, son of A J & M S, d 10 Oct 1866, 3m 13d.
• SNIDER, John F, son of A J & M S, d 21 Sep1866, 3m 13d
• SNIDER, Nancy, wf of Wm R, d 14 Sep 1869, 33y 21d.
• SNIDER, Philip, d 1 Feb 1873, 63y 9m 21d.

Directions:
Located southeast of the Bittersweet Theater in Des Moines Township (Dallas County, Iowa) This was started as a family plot and is still on Snider land. There are no fences, cattle and horses roam over the graves, stones have been moved. There is an old coal mine south of the burial ground and the shale was moved behind the cemetery to form two ponds.

About Snider Cemetery:
Jeremiah Snider sold his farm in Virginia for $387.60 and came to Iowa 3 June 1843. It was for Abraham Snider's daughter Sarah, who died shortly after the family came to Iowa, that Jeremiah Snider, Sarah's grandfather, staked off the land for the Snider Cemetery. Abraham and his family didn't remain in Iowa very long because of the hardships of pioneer life in the unbroken country. Shortly after Sarah's death, Abraham and his family returned to Virginia, and then relocated to Greene County, PA.