Edgar County, Illinois cemetery inscriptions

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Microfilm of transcribed records in the custody of Edythe Stephens of Paris, Illinois.

Includes the cemeteries of the following townships: Brouiletts Creek, Edgar, Embarrass, Elbridge, Grandview, Hunter, Kansas, Paris, Prairie, Ross, Shiloh, Stratton, Symmes and Young America.

Cemeteries included: BROUILETTS CREEK TOWNSHIP: Allen family burial plot (on Charles Conner farm), Bush (on Wyatt Adams' farm, n.e. of Logan), Camerer, Houston (on Frank Stratton farm), Littlefield (on Levi Littlefield farm, s. of Logan), McCaulley (on Rhoda Frazier farm), Mt. Carmel a.k.a. Light Carmel (n. of Logan), Newcomb (on Clark farm, s. of Scotland), Newton (on Forest Ingram farm, e. of Logan), Procise (on George Patrick farm (near Logan), Scott family burial plot (in Carmer's Woods, now owned by Levi Littlefield), cemetery on James Tuttle farm (e. of Logan); -- EDGAR TOWNSHIP - cemetery on Albert Horsley farm (e. of Bloomfield), lone McCoy graves (behind Bob Quinns' barn), Cherry Point (s. of Cherry Point), Jordan (in yard of C.C. Moss residence), McKee (on Robert Hoult farm), Wynn or Old Bloomfield, Scott; -- EMBARRASS TOWNSHIP - Catfish, Catfish Point or Milburn (in woods s. and e. of Embrass cemetery), Embarrass, Housel / New Athens (s. of Rt 133), Scott (w. of Redmon), Smith family graveyard (w. of Redmon), Shields, unnamed - Shiloh or Zimmerman or Burt (w. of Catfish cemetery); -- ELBRIDGE TOWNSHIP - Cummins (s.e. of Ferrell), Guymon, Sims a.k.a. Wilson or Marley (near Marley); -- GRANDVIEW TOWNSHIP - Augustus (s. of Conlogue), Barr-Johnson (w. of Bellridge), Beatty (w. of Bellridge), Boyer graveyard (on Russell Camp farm, s.w. of Bellridge), Cholera at North edge of Grandview - 3 graves, Gill a.k.a. Old Bethlehem, Grandview (s. edge of Grandview), Hinds a.k.a. Hite), Huffman a.k.a. Deem or Sisson (e. of Grandview), Johnson (on Nelson Hawkins farm, e. of Grandview), New Goshen a.k.a. Hickman (w. of Bellridge), Rudy (s. of Conlogue), Tate (w. of Grandview), Goshen (on Robert Brimner farm, s. of Grandview) lone grave - Mark Bishop age 22 yr d. 7 May 1979 - drowned at Charleston, Ill. (on Barber farm); -- HUNTER TOWNSHIP - Blackman family graveyard, to be continued.

HUNTER TOWNSHIP continued: lone grave stone - Cad B. Root age 28 died July 4, 1835 native of Farmington, Conn. (stone is being used in the walk at the Beebe farm, Hunter Twp.), Bright (in Hunter Twp, Edgar Co., Ill., s.e. of St Bernice, Indiana), Bruce (Hunter Twp., Edgar Co. Ill., by Blanford, Ind.), Cook (on the Nolan place, abt. a mile or less from the Indiana line.), North Arm Catholic Church and cemetery, Stafford a.k.a. Crimmins; -- KANSAS TOWNSHIP - Boyer (s. of Kansas), Cornwell (on Ben Robinson farm, s. of Kansas), Fairview (e. of Kansas), Harmony, Pinnell (s. of Kansas), Poulter - some graves may have been moved to Fairview cemetery (on Raymond Goble farm), Pleasant Hill, Smith (on Richard Allen farm), Snyder (s. of Kansas), Waite (w. of Ben Robinson home), Wilhott (s.w. of Kansas), -- PARIS TOWNSHIP - Single graves -son of E. & E. Buckler 1 yr. d. 9 Aug. 1991 - Mary E. Sheriff d. 10 April 1846 age 2 yrs. 10 mo. 21 d. (Paris, Paris Twp.), Redmon cemetery (on J.O. Stewart property, s. of Paris), Conkey or Baldwin, INDEX to St. Mary's Catholic cemetery (Paris), St. Mary's Catholic cemetery (Paris); -- PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP - Unlisted cemetery - Wesley Chapel a.k.a. Friends, Prairie Chapel and Ingram; -- ROSS TOWNSHIP - Bacon (w. of Chrisman High School), Gaines (w. of Wodyard Station), Ross a.k.a. Summe or Rose Hill (w. of Woodyard Station); -- SHILOH TOWNSHIP - Payne (n. of Brocton); -- STRATTON TOWNSHIP - Blackburn, Little Grove (e. of Paris), Pryor a.k.a. Lachenour), Whalen (on John Watson property, n. of Judy Voorhees residence), Wilkins (w. of Vermillion), Blue family buried in Wilkins in Grandpa Reuben Blues own handwriting, Oak Grove cemetery - some pages blurred; -- SYMMES or SIMS TOWNSHIP - James cemetery - destroyed, Cassady a.k.a, Brown (s. of Paris), Elledge - Holley (s.w. of Paris), Cronic a.k.a. Croddy (adjacent to Zimmerly cemetery), to be continued.

SYMMES or SIMS TOWNSHIP continued -- individual head stone - D.E.W and J. W. H. 1877 (on Beecher Foley farm), Quinn a.k.a. Knight (n.w. of Oliver), individual graves - Ann and David Meeker 10 m. 14. d. old, died 12/13 Jan. 1853, daughter and son of D. A. and J. J. Meeker (graves on Marion Shutzbaugh farm), Jones cemetery - destroyed - single headstone left for William F. Fleming d. 18 Oct. 1877, 20 yr. 2 m. 9 d. (on Karl Yontz farm), individual headstone for Warren Davis d. 1828, 8 yrs. old (found on Fred Smittkamp farm, s. of Paris on Preston road), Quinn a.k.a. Knight (n.w. of Oliver), Laufman (n.e. of Oliver), Lycan family graveyard (on Jay Stickler farm, s.w. of Paris), New Hope (s.w. of Paris), Ogden (s. of Paris), Morris family graveyard (on Ray and Opal Landes farm originally owned by Jesse B. Morris), O'Hair (on old John O'Hair homestead owned in 1959 by Lawrence Frazier), Stevens / Stephens (n. of Bell Ridge Church), Swango (on Godfrey Weber farm, s of Paris), Walls (n.w. of Oliver), Zimmerly (n. of Bell Ridge); -- YOUNG AMERICA TOWNSHIP - Young America (n. of Hume).

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