Cemeteries

There are many ways to find cemeteries using the Internet. The Idaho Genweb project lists cemeteries under each county. You can also find cemeteries using Google Maps, Findagrave.com, and Internment.net. The City of Boise provides maps of Morris Hill Cemetery, Pioneer Cemetery, and Fort Boise Military Reserve Cemetery.

You can search for grave sites for veterans using the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Gravesite Locator, or use V.A. tools to look up veterans cemeteries including the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.

The American Battle Monuments Commission administers Cemeteries and Memorials overseas along with a few in the United States and territories. Those buried in these cemeteries could be service members, Red Cross workers, American civilian technicians, and entertainers for the military.

The National Park Service administers sites such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Endowment Care Cemeteries are regulated by the State of Idaho.

NATIONWIDE BURIAL SEARCHES

• Idaho Genweb project
• Google Maps
• Findagrave.com
• Internment.net
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator

IDAHO CEMETERIES

• Canyon County, Idaho – Headstone Photos and Obituaries Project
• City of Boise Cemeteries
• City of Caldwell Cemeteries
• Nampa Interment and Genealogy Site
• Valley County Archives

MILITARY CEMETERIES AND MONUMENTS

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator
• Find veterans cemeteries
• Idaho State Veterans Cemetery
• The American Battle Monuments Commission
• National Park Service – American Military – Search for National Park Service parks and memorials with a military connection.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Cemeteries and Brevities of Magic Valley. compiled by the Twin Falls Public Library Staff. Twin Falls, Idaho: Twin Falls Public Library, 2004.
• Cemeteries of the Idaho Ghost Towns of Fairview, Ruby City, Silver City. by Don Jamison. Owyhee Pub. Co., 1984.
• Cemeteries of the U.S. : a guide to contact information for U.S. cemeteries and their records. Deborah M. Burek, editor. Gale Research Inc., 1994.
• Deaths and Burials : Boise Barracks Military Reserve, Idaho, 1863-1913. by Wilda Collier Dillion. 2003.
• Gone but not Forgotten: Nampa’s pioneers at rest in Kohlerlawn Cemetery: turn of the century through 1910. compiled by Dan Burch. 1989.

  

• Grave Matters : a history of Canyon Hill cemetery. by Jeanette Jackson. Boise State University, 2007.
• Idaho State Veterans Cemetery : master plan report. prepared by Beck & Baird; for Idaho Division of Veterans Services. Beck & Baird, 2002.
• IOOF cemetery, Filer, Idaho : Twin Falls County plot, Filer, Idaho. compiled by Suzanne Lou Engelbert. Twin Falls County Plot/Suzanne Lou Engelbert, 1985.
• Little Basin Cemetery (Cassia County). by the Vince Cooper family and Bernice Pope. Idaho Genealogical Society Quarterly, 1959. Excerpt from Idaho Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. 2, no. 3, September 1959, pp 7-14.
• Middleton Cemetery Monument Inscriptions. Idaho Genealogical Society State Cemetery Project; Richard Ramage, Eagle Scout. Idaho Genealogical Society, 1997.
• Morris Hill Cemetery : a landscape history. by Cynthia L. Coulter ; as directed by Dr. Todd Shallat, Boise State University. 2002.
• Oregon Burial Site Guide. compiled by Dean H. Byrd; co-compiled by Stanley R. Clarke and Janice M. Healy. 1st ed. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort Pub., 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 1005-1006) and index.
• Owyhee County Gleanings by Wilma Lewis Statham. Idaho Genealogical Society and Idaho Historical Society, 1964.
• Pioneer cemeteries : sculpture gardens of the Old West by Annette Stott. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
• Pioneer Cemetery : a self-guided tour. Boise, Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society, 1990?
• Study and report on cemetery revenues in relation to costs of operation and maintenance, 1971.
• Tales the western tombstones tell by Lambert Florin. Superior Pub. Co., 1967.

This page updated by Ronnie Joiner on May 7, 2019.