Miles Cemetery, Kelly Twp, Warren Co., IL
Miles Cemetery is an old and abandoned Cemetery. I have yet to visit it as have been trying to locate it. It is not an easy task as it sits off the roadway with no known road leading to it. I've been told from a family member that if you stand in the Hope Cemetery in Kelly Twp., Warren Co., IL, and look Northeast you will see a band of trees and the cemetery is located somewhere near there. When the weather permits will try and visit it.
From my copy of the Miles Cemetery records recorded in 1981 and I copied from the Galesburg Library, Galesburg, IL, for 10 cents a copy from the Warren County Genealogical Society. They record the cemetery as being located near rural reference numbers 1750E and 2500N midway between sections 25 and 36 in Kelly Twp. There is no road to this abandoned cemetery; access is by walking through a field and some timber. The Cemetery is approximately one acre in size and has been overtaken by a stand of timber, weeds and brush. Most of the stones are apart from their bases; some leaning against trees, others have fallen to the ground, many are broken.
You have any information on person buried in this cemetery feel free to email me.
Thanks!!! Love to hear from you!
In November of 1981, the Warren County, Genealogical Society recorded the tombstone inscriptions were identified as:
| SURNAMES | First Names & wives Surname if known | Date if Birth | Date of Death | Inscriptions | Military or other markers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles | Sarah | June14, 1855 | ae 54y 11m 23d | ||
| John | May 23, 1872 | ae 75y 7m 16d | Masonic Emblem | ||
| Miles | Nancy | January 11, 1843 | ae 3y 4m 8d dau. of J. & S. Miles | ||
| Miles | Francis M. | August 29, 1842 | ae 2y 11m 26d son of J. & S. Miles | ||
| Charles J. | Nov. 12, 1848 | ae 3y 6m 6d son of J. & S. Miles | |||
| Miles | Alfaretta | Jan. 24, 1867 | ae 9y 7m | ||
| Henry R. | Jan. 03, 1864 | ae 2y 15d | |||
| Gregg | Jane | Jan. 08, 1849 | ae 15y 10m 14d dau. of H.A. & M. Gregg | ||
| William I. | Jan. 08, 1849 | ae 1y 1m 27d son of H. A. & M. Gregg | |||
| Gregg** | John | Oct. 03, 1870 | ae 25y 6m 11d son of H. A. & M. Gregg | Co B 102Ill INF. | |
| Rogers | Angeline | Oct. 1879 | ae 32y 10m 24d--wife of S. M. Rogers | ||
| Durand | Morton M | Corp. Co. B 102 Ill Inf. | |||
| Brown | Henrietta | June 27, 1861 | ae 82y OUR MOTHER | ||
| Freeman | Fauntleyroy | July 14, 1856 | ae 50y 10m 18d | ||
| Margaret | March 08, 1878 | aw 60y 9m 28d Stone erected by G. A. Stevens of Galesburg, IL | |||
| Livermore | Russell F | August 27, 1850 | ae 18y 4m 24d son of A. & B. Livermore | ||
| Oliver | August 28, 1842 | ae 14y 29d SON OF A. & B. Livermore | |||
| Cane | Horace E. | Dec. 1869 | son of N. & E. E. Cane | ||
| Ira | Dec. 09, 1864 | ae 9m infant son of N. & E. E. Cane | |||
| Brown | Alfred G. | Oct. 08, 1865 | ae 64y 3m 18d | ||
| Mary | March 31, 1869 | ae 68y 9m 23d wife of Alfred | |||
| Brown | Nancy L. | Oct. 13, 1868 | ae 37y 5m wife of Wm | ||
| Charlie R. | |||||
| Nancy E. | |||||
| Mary E. | |||||
| Howe | Sarah J. | Oct. 18, 187 | ae 12y 9m 2d dau. of S. R. & M. A. Howe | ||
| Savage | George W. | Oct. 03, 1866 | ae 6y 11m 16d son of W. R. & M.J. Savage | ||
| Stotts | Emily K | March 08, 1856 | ae 5y 16d | ||
| Cromley | Jane E. | August 20, 1856 | ae 6y 9d dau. of Wm & E. Cromley | ||
| Hogan | Harman | Sept. 19, 1864 | ae 71 10m 19d | ||
| Smith | Maria | March 06, 1865 | ae 64y 4m 12d wife of Reziin | ||
| Rezin | March 20, 1854 | ae 62y 25d | |||
| Stegall | Ambrose | Feb. 15, 1875 | aw 51y 16d | 1st Lieut. Co. B 102 Ill Inf. | |
| Nelson | Eliza | Sept/ 05, 1867 | ae 19y 2m 3d wife of H. D. Nelson | ||
| Curtis | Lebbeus | April 18, 1855 | ae 70y 8m 22d | ||
| Freeman | Sarah Jane | June 04, 1858 | ae 19y 2m 3d dau of F. & M. H. Freeman | ||
| Miles | Daniel V. | June 27, 1869 | ae 54y 4m 14d | ||
| Nancy | July 29, 1848 | ae 1y 10m 21d dau of D.V. & S. Miles | |||
| Hogan | Sarah | March 18, 1841 | ae 17y 1m 3d dau of H. & E. Hogan | ||
