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This list of cemeteries in Iowa includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
West Ham was a local government district in the extreme south west of Essex from 1886 to 1965, forming part of the built-up area of London, although outside the County of London. It was immediately north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea .
The coat of arms of the County Borough of West Ham, within which the cemetery was located until 1965, displayed on a World War Two memorial in the cemetery Leslie Dwyer (1906–1986), actor; Hilda Fenemore (1919–2004), actress; McDonald Hobley (1917–1987), broadcaster; Arthur Howard (1910–1995), actor; Charles Lamb (1900–1989)
The brewery was founded by John Gray (1791-1826) and the Dacre family, which resided in West Ham for several generations until the 1860s (Francis Dacre was described on the 1841 census as a "brewer"). [1] Gray received financial help from his father, Owen Gray, a brewer in March, Cambridgeshire, in order to set up the business in West Ham. [2]
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As of the census of 2020, [7] there were 722 people, 339 households, and 207 families residing in the city. The population density was 479.9 inhabitants per square mile (185.3/km 2).
Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines was also named for Hay; the local Kiwanis club placed a memorial plaque near the entrance to the mall's Sears store in 1979. The first American military casualty in World War II was also an Iowa native. Robert M. Losey, a military attache, was killed on April 21, 1940, during a German bombardment of Dombås, Norway. [6]
They are carved from white or grey marble and granite. A white, frame Methodist Episcopal church building was located on the northeast corner of the cemetery in 1856, and it served its congregation into the 1940s. [2] It has subsequently been removed. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1]