Tazewell County, Illinois Genealogy Trails
 

Tazewell County Cemeteries
Cemeteries with Inventories and/or Photo's

These Cemeteries are listed by Township and Section

†Boynton Township

Section 12 ------- Freeman Cemetery Cemetery

 

†Cincinnati Township

†View Township map with Hawkins Cemetery Location.

Section 11 -------- St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery & Mount Calvary Cemetery

Section 13 -------- Rankin Cemetery  a.k.a  HAINES Cemetery

Section 17 -------- Bequeaith Cemetery - Status was Despoiled - New Status: In Recovery!!

Section 20 -------- King Cemetery

Section 23 -------- Hawley Cemetery - DESPOILED-

Section 30 -------- Hawkins Cemetery - DESPOILED-

Section 31 -------- Bailey Cemetery

Section 36 -------- Woodrow Cemetery

 

†Deer Creek Township

Section 4 ---------- Baptist Cemetery ---NOTE: Moved to an unrecorded site

Section 8 ---------- Presbyterian Cemetery & Deer Creek Cemetery

Section 27 --------- Hardscrabble Cemetery

Section 29 --------- Roberson Cemetery and / New Castle Cemetery

 

†Delavan Township

Section 1 ----------- NOTE: Graves reported but unfound as of 1923

Section 3 ----------- NOTE: Graves found while laying field tile - transferred to St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery

Section 3 ----------- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery

Section 10 ---------- Prairie Rest Cemetery   & Davidson Cemetery/Mausoleum -up-dated 12-07- Not DFone

Section 25 ---------- Patterson Cemetery & Greenwood Cemetery

 

†Dillon Township

Section 1 ----------- Antioch Cemetery

Section 1 ----------- NOTE: Unknown Cemetery: no name recorded: LOST

Section 4 ----------- Shay Cemetery

Section 24 ---------- Tullamore Cemetery & Danforth Cemetery & De Vore Cemetery

Section 25 ---------- Curtis Cemetery --NOTE: stone removed & farmed over - reportedly moved to Prairie Rest (??)

Section 36 ---------- Brown-Wood Cemetery ---NOTE: Moved to Delevan ((Town or section is unclear))

 

†Elm Grove Township
† View Township Map with Cemetery locations.

Section 1 ----------- Mennonite Cemetery & Landis Cemetery & Pleasant Grove Mennonite Cemetery

Section 3 ----------- O'Brien Cemetery

Section 8 ----------- Railroad Schoolhouse Cemetery

Section 11 ---------- Tazewell County Poor Farm

Section 11 ---------- Briggs Cemetery -- NOTE: removed to Tennessee Point (???)

Section 13 ---------- Mt. Hope Cemetery & Tremont Burial Grounds

Section 17 ---------- Glendale Memorial Gardens

Section 27 ---------- Miars Cemetery & Elm Grove Cemetery

Section 34 ---------- Dillion Cemetery & Fisher Burial Ground

 

†Fondulac Township

Section 1 ------------ Haedicke Cemetery --NOTE: Stones removed to a new cemetery in Woodford County

Section 27 ----------- Fondulac Cemetery

Section 28 -------- Rinkenberger Cemetery  

Section 33 ----------- Schertz - Mosiman Cemetery --NOTE: cemetery covered by slag from nearby mine - no access

 

†Groveland Township

Section 5 ------------- Gerber - Zimmerman Cemetery

Section 7 ------------- Hamm Cemetery --NOTE: Classed as LOST - can not locate

Section 9 ------------- Fagotte Cemetery --NOTE: Original French Cemetery - graves dating early 1800/late 1700's

Section 11 ----------- Caldwell Cemetery ---NOTE: common memorial marker only

Section 15 ----------- Shannon Cemetery

Section 17 ----------- Zion Evangelical Cemetery & Franks Cemetery

Section 22 ----------- Birki Cemetery

Section 25 ----------- Deacon Cemetery

Section 26 ----------- Groveland Evangelical Mennonite

Section 30 ----------- Meyer Cemetery

Section 32 ----------- Craft Cemetery  (Craft - Kimler Cemetery)

 

†Hittle Township

Section 9 ------------ Hainline - Albrecht Cemetery --- NOTE: stones removed & is being farmed over

Section 12 ----------- Hieronymus Cemetery

Section 16 ----------- Boldoser Cemetery

Section 17 ----------- Hittle Grove Cemetery & Gilbert Cemetery

Section 28 ----------- Oak View Cemetery & Hittle Cemetery

 

†Hopedale Township

Section 1 ------------- Wilson Cemetery

Section 9 ------------- Purviance Cemetery

Section 13 ------------ Shiloh Cemetery

Section 14 ------------ Paisley Cemetery -- DESTROYED

Section 22 ------------ Schilpp or Sparrow Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Griesemer Cemetery

Section 27 ------------ Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery up-dated 12-2007 4 new sever

Section 31 ------------ Bever Cemetery

Section 33 ------------ Orendorff Cemetery

 

†Little Mackinaw Township
† View Township Map with Cemetery Locations

Section 3 -------------- Glenwood Cemetery & Old Miner Cemetery

Section 8 -------------- Gaines Cemetery

Section 19 ------------ Briggs Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Minier Cemetery

Section 35 ------------ Broadway Cemetery

 

†Mackinaw Township

Section ??? ----------- Lost 40 Cemetery -NOTE: lives up to its name -- LOST -- can not locate

Section 13 ------------ Lilly Cemetery

Section 17 ------------ Mackinaw Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Bergen Cemetery & Tazewell Hill - Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Lindsey Cemetery

 

†Malone Township

Section 3 ------------- Latham Cemetery

Section 21 ------------ Shoup Cemetery

Section 26 ------------ Bratt Cemetery & Old Sand Hill Cemetery & Pleasant View Cemetery

 

†Morton Township

Section ??? ----------- NOTE: UNKNOWN -- Lost in Township early 1900's

Section 4 -------------- Hirstein Cemetery

Section 11 ------------ Hillcrest Memorial Gardens

Section 18 ------------ Roberts Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Buckeye Cemetery

Section 20 ......  Apostolic Christian Cemetery - Newer and larger than the one in section 29. [C. Martin -2007]

Section 29 ------------ Old Apostolic Christian Cemetery

 

†Pekin Township

Sons of Temperance Cemetery: --------- formerly located on the East Bluff ---- site of Mc Kinley School ---- removed to Oak Grove -- started on July 25, 1857

Old City Cemetery: -------------- Formerly at the present site of Quaker Oats Company.
This cemetery was moved around 1915 to 1918 by families & by Illinois Box Board to Pauper's Row in the Northeast section of Lakeview Cemetery

Tharpe Cemetery: ----------------- Formerly at the site of Douglas School (10th and Broadway). Started in the 1830's then moved to Oak Grove section of Lakeside Cemetery in 1882

Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery --------------- Route 29 -- North Edge of Pekin

Veteran's Memorial Cemetery ------------------ Route 29 -- North edge of Pekin

Oak Grove Cemetery ------------------------------ North Edge of Pekin -- west side of Route 29

Lakeside Cemetery and Mausoleum ------------- South Edge of Pekin -- west side of Route 29

Lakeview Cemetery -------------------------------- East side of Route 29

Pauper's Row ---------------------------------------- North-East Corner of Lakeview Cemetery Sand Prairie Township

†Sand Prairie Township
 †View Township Map with Cemetery Locations

New Sand Prairie Cemetery
 

Section 1 -------------- Prettyman Burial Grounds / Priddy Cemetery

Section 2 -------------- Weyhrich Cemetery & Hamson Cemetery & Sand Prairie Cemetery

Section 4 -------------- Sand Prairie Cemetery

Section 7 -------------- Champion Cemetery & Orr Cemetery & Rankin Cemetery

Section 20/29 -------- NOTE: Cemetery sits on division line of 2 sections Breedlove Cemetery & Nannen Cemetery

Section 24 ------------ Holton Cemetery

Section 35 ------------ Green Valley Cemetery

 

†Spring Lake Township

Section 5 ------------ Spring Lake Cemetery

Section 15 ----------- Schmick Cemetery

Section 16 ----------- Old Settlement Cemetery - Status was Abandoned - Now Status Cleaned up.

Section 30 ----------- Haas Cemetery

 

†Tremont Township

Section 4 ------------- Belzly Cemetery --- NOTE: only 1 stone & it disappeared in 1980 -- CLASSED AS LOST

Section 14 ------------ Blum Cemetery NOTE: Cemetery is LOST -- thought to being farmed over

Section 15 ------------ Clark Cemetery NOTE: Cemetery is LOST -- currently pastureland with no stones

Section 16 ------------ Tennessee Point Cemetery & Black Walnut Cemetery

Section 19 ------------ Apostolic Christian Cemetery

Section 22 ------------ Broyhill Cemetery

Section 28 ------------ Vawter Cemetery

Section 29 ------------ Old Apostolic Cemetery - Known as Winzeler Cemtery [C. Martin -2007]

Section 36 ------------ Wyckoff Cemetery

 

†Washington Township

Section 3 -------------- Union Cemetery

Section 8 -------------- Ficht Cemetery

Section 13 ------------ Wrenn Cemetery

Section 14 ------------ Baker Cemetery ---
NOTE: cemetery behind residential area - classed as DESPOILED -- access by 10 ft. easement between houses.
Inhabitants incl. son of Washington's founder

Section 18 ------------ Keil Cemetery

Section 19 ------------ Holland's Grove Cemetery & Guth Cemetery (Route 8)

Section 20 ------------ Zion Lutheran Cemetery & Huddleston Cemetery

Section 23 ------------ Glendale Cemetery & Old Washington Cemetery

Section 30 ------------ Ringenberger Cemetery

Section 32 ------------ Farmdale -  Oesterly Cemetery ---NOTE: sign in cemetery still says Farmdale Cemetery

Section 35 ------------ Higgins Cemetery

I would like to give a big 'THANKS' to Al and Carole for all their hard work and time.
The time you have given freely to help others in their research is greatly appreciated!

For more detail and cemetery research services visit the Tazewell County Genealogy Soc..
This listing was provided by: Steve Slaughter, March 2002.
 

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