Prairie Rest Cemetery, Tazewell County, IL

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Data and Photo's by: Steve Slaughter, © Sept. 2003
Personal Thanks to Mike Stauffer of Pekin, for his help in the documentation of this cemetery!
update from Carole Martin © 2007

Prairie Rest Cemetery
Delevan Twp., Sec. 10

From Delavan, IL travel East on Route 122 about one mile to Springfield Road. Turn South (right) and go about .8 of a mile.
The Cemetery will be on the right at the intersection of Springfield Road and 8th.

It's a large, well maintained cemetery, although it does have many old stones that are lying on the ground.

Sarah
Wife Of
Wm. Slaughter
Died
June 26, 1858
Aged 33 ys.

Headstone for Sarah Slaughter

Headstone for William Grossman
William Crossman
Pvt Shepard's Co.
3 Mass Mil
War of 1812

Headstone for Corporal George W. Wilson
George W. Wilson
Corp.
Co. H.
53 KY Inf.

Headstone for Sgt. Richard Scott
Richard B. Scott
1st. Sgt.
Co. B
73 IL Inf

Headstone of William Trollope
William Trollope
Co. H
115 IL Inf.

The 1955 Honor Roll Listing

Headstone for R.P. Jennings, M.D.
R.P. Jennings M.D.
Asst. Surg. 51 O.V.I.
Born- Delaware, Ohio 1838
Died- Delavan, IL 1888

Samuel BROWN and son Edwin BROWN
BORN AT WINTHROP MAINE 1796
SERVED IN WAR OF 1812
MIGRATED TO MAINVILLE OHIO 1823 - TO ILL. 1850 - DIED 1854
Anna STEVENS BROWN, HIS WIFE
Buried at Mainville, Ohio 1848
Their Children
Edwin R. Born 1826 died 1857
Harriett, Caroline and Jefferson Buried at Lincoln, Illinois

William Gibbs, Sen.
Born in Sussex Co., Eng.
May 23, 1766 Died Mar. 1, 1851

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