This historic cemetery dates its roots back to 1865. The cemetery is commonly called the
"New St. Thomas" cemetery because of the many persons who were reinterred here
due to the creation of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead in the 1930s. When the dam began to block
the Colorado River and form Lake Mead, two towns were doomed to be buried under the
waters of Lake Mead, Nevada....Kaolin and St. Thomas, both in Clark County. Most of the
persons buried in the cemeteries of Kaolin and St. Thomas were reinterred to the
cemeteries in Logandale, Overton and the 'new' St. Thomas Cemetery, which is just
south of Overton, Nevada.
Today the cemetery is home to those who were reinterred from Kaolin and St. Thomas, as
well as their descendants.
To visit this historic cemetery, go to:
http://usgwtombstones.org/nevada/ruralcem.html
and scroll down to St. Thomas Cemetery-2012.
Gerry Perry, Manager
Nevada Tombstone Project