The goals of the WQ Project are to identify pioneer settlements near Winter Quarters. The time period covered is from 1840-1862. We have searched for settlements, their residents, their histories, and their burial sites.
The database focuses on:
Settlement histories which includes:
Location
History
Possible births, marriages, and deaths
Residents
Possible cemetery location
Burial plot maps for Cutler's Park and the Winter Quarters Cemetery which include:
Persons buried, their biographies, causes of death, if known, with definitions of the causes
Early burials from some Iowa pioneer cemeteries which include:
Pictures of tombstones
Information transcribed from tombstones