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Chapel Hill Cemetery
DuBois Township
Washington County, Illinois

 

Chapel Hill Cemetery
      Chapel Hill, community cemetery is located in Washington County, section 29, north of Du Bois crossroads along highway #51. It was once the the site of the residence of George Palmer who settled there in 1827.

      Because it is a community cemetery and not associated with a church, some of the older people of St. mark's United Church of Christ Church expressed concern about the future of Chapel Hill. Since a number of their members are buried there, the Chapel Hill Cemetery Association was organized on May 14, 1964.

      The present board members are : Lee Bowers, president; Walter Kramm, vice-president; Howard Johannes, secretary; Lester Porter, treasuruer.

      Some of the grave sites from 1836-1897 are : Palmer, Tilley, Bridges, Nuedecker, Shadie, Reminger, Kuhn, Ruh, Schwind and Qualls.

      At the south end of the cemetery, graves without stones include : Stewart, Williams, Brown, Jewell, Enderlee and Corgan

 

From an article by Renee and Marcella Majewski
submitted by : W. J. "Bucky" McCoy

 

© 2009     Wayne Hinton


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