Cedarville Cemetery Association - Was incorporated July 14, 1855 by M. Montelius, John H. Addams, Josiah Clingman, Peter Woodring and John WIlson, for the purpose of purchasing and caring for lands, etc., for the burial of the dead. The association at one organized by the election of Josiah Clingman, President, with John H. Addams as Secretary and Treasurer. Three acres of ground were procured, which were surveyed, platted and divided into lots, intersection by avenues at regular intervals. The plat was approved and recorded by the Board of the Supervisors at the meeting of that body in March 1859, and is now under a board of officers of which Jackson Richart is President and John H. Addams, Secretary and Treasurer. The grounds are handsomely laid out, ornamented with varieties of forest trees, shrubberied and flowers, and contain a number of elaborately finished monuments.
**History of Stephenson County Western Historical Co. 1880