25. Minnie Potter Grave

25. Minnie Potter was just 32 years old in 1898 when her husband John, publisher of the Rock Island Argus, died leaving her with three small children and a promising young newspaper to run. At his death she had vowed to carry on publishing the paper until the children were old enough to take over. And this she did. For 22 years she worked at it, finding the energy and determination necessary each day to keep the paper up to their early vision of excellence. Minnie Potter died in 1936, knowing that she had kept her promise to her husband, her children and herself.

Next stops on the tour:

1. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial

2. Ben Harper Lot

3. Burial Plots of Ransom R. and Philander Cable

4. Grave of Philemon Mitchell

5. Denkmann Family Mausoleum

6. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Thomas B. Davis, Samuel S. Davis Lots

7. Thomas B. Davis Grave

8.  John Volk Grave

9. William Tenges Monument

10. Captain A. J. Whitney Lot

11. William R. Little Headstone

12. Captain David M. Tipton Grave

13. Dean Tyler Robinson Monument

14. Charles Buford Grave

15. Ada Brackett Schwatka Grave

16. C.C. Knell Grave

17. General William Hoffman Grave

18. Colonel John Buford Monument

19. Captain John Wilson Grave

20. Eddie & Josie Dimick Monument

21. William Morrison Grave

22. Richard Mansill Monument

23. Colonel Davenport, Margaret Davenport, Bailey Davenport, Susan Lewis Goldsmith Plot

24. Benjamin Dann Walsh Grave

25. Minnie Potter Grave

26. Edward Burrall, Jr. Grave

27. William Harte Monument