LOST CEMETERIES

Alexander County Illinois Genealogy Trails

 Many of these cemeteries are no longer active, go by different names, or have disappeared into the wilderness.
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CEMETERY POSSIBLE LOCATION
Abercrombie Just outside of Thebes on old Abercrombie homestead; cem. no longer exists.  (Source:  Evelyn Caldwell)  Two burials were:  John A. Abercrombie, d. Oct 10, 1865, age 59y, 9m, 9d. and Amanda, w/o John, d. Dec 11, 1871, age 57y, 7m, 4d.
Alexander County Poor Farm Mc Clure--not sure if Mc Clure had a Poor Farm.  There was one at Thebes, acccording to Evelyn Caldwell.  
The one at Route 3 and 127 had five stones with these names:
PARKER, Altha A., d/o J. H. & C. B., b. Jul 4, 1880; d. Oct 14, 1881.
PARKER, Charlotte B., w/o John H., b. Dec 25, 1844; d. Sep 25, 1883.
PARKER, John H., b. Jul 25, 1835; d. Nov 4, 1887.
PARKER, Lillian A., d/o J. H. & C. B., b. Oct 29, 1882;  d. Oct 17, 1886.
STEVENS, Arthur Frederick, b. Feb 3, 1863; d. Dec. 9, 1904, age 4y, 10m, 6d.
WORTHINGTON, Minnie Pearl, d/o H. & N. L., b. June 16, 1892; d. Aug. 3, 1892.
WORTHINGTON, Nellie Lee, b. 1874; d. 1905.
There was one other stone, which appears to be that of a child.
Source: ALEXANDER COUNTY CEMETERIES, ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Editors Elaine Bonifield and Louise P. Ogg, ©1976 Pulaski-Alexander Soil and Water Conservation District. Used with permission.
Brown 2 1/2 miles NE of Thebes on Bean Ridge Rd.  (There is a Brown Family Cem. on an Indian Mound at Brownville; east of Bean Ridge Rd--source:  J. C. McNelly)  
Brown Homestead Beech Ridge--one burial--George Brown, a Rev. War Veteran.
Cauble (see Wehmeyer Cem.) Abt 2 miles E of Thebes  (on Robert Weymeyer's property--source:  Evelyn Caldwell)
Cemetery of the Lotus/Seven Mile About 7 miles from Cairo, near RR junction
Childers/Tamms Between Diswood and Olive Branch
Douglas About a mile SW of Delta--one person buried there--Samuel Phillips.
Duck Pond Mc Clure
Edmondson Farm One mile S of East Cape
Fayville In hills east of the Powder Plant
Frick Near Elco
Garner North of Thebes a short distance
Greenley West of Willard
Hobbs Between Thebes and Gale in a field off Perch Pond Road--only name legible, Young D. GARNER  and family.
Honey Tamms
Mobile Also known as Sandusky
Unknown East Cape Cemetery near schoolhouse??
Parker 9 or 10 miles N of Cairo  (Roy Dakin:  Off Sandy Ridge Rd in a field)
Richland also known as Unity--George T. Johnson buried there.
Riggle Located on Sandy Ridge Road, probably on the Wendell Honey property.  (May be the same as Parker & Honey) (Source:  Evelyn Caldwell)
Sammons Abt 2 mi east of Thebes
Sexton Creek; aka McRaven & McClure Cemetery Near Delta, Phillips & McRaven settlement, about 4 mi south of McClure.
Simpkins Honey School Tower--on a ridge across from Claude Lipe's farm on old Diswood Rd.  These are know to be buried there, but no recorded dates.  (Sources: ALEXANDER COUNTY CEMETERIES, ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Editors Elaine Bonifield and Louise P. Ogg, ©1976 Pulaski-Alexander Soil and Water Conservation District. Used with permission; Evelyn Caldwell:  On Brownville Rd on high hill across from Lipe farm.)
RIMER, Gradie
RIMER, Hallie
SIMPKINS, Sarah
SIMPKINS, William
SIMPKINS, Winnie
Another Simpkins Cemetery is on the Tom Farris Farm.  It has one grave that we know of.
SIMPKINS, Eugene, b. Mar 21, 1884; d. Dec 24, 1922.
Sitton Located in Wolf Creek Hollow.  (Source:  Evelyn Caldwell)
Solomon Hill Unity

Streator

In Diswood Community
Whitlock Possibly near Elco



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