LECLAIRE, Iowa (KWQC) - The historic Glendale Cemetery in LeClaire dates back to 1830. For nearly two centuries, it has served as the final resting place for riverboat captains, veterans, political figures, and some of the city’s earliest pioneers.

Today, that history is crumbling. Weather and age have left many of the gravestones cracked, toppled, or sinking into the ground. Volunteers who maintain the cemetery say without repairs, pieces of LeClaire’s past could be lost forever.

Glendale Cemetery is nonprofit and run entirely by volunteers. The board recently set aside enough money to restore 125 gravestones. But with hundreds more in need, they launched a GoFundMe to cover additional repairs. So far, donations have made it possible to fix 41 more stones on top of what is already budge

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