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Sugar Grove Cemetery

DO YOU REMEMBER? Away Back When— "Old Timer" column, October 23, 1937 Review ATLAS newspaper, Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois

From the Houlton. cemetery we vent to the old Sugar Grove Cemetery , in the rear of the old Sugar Grove United Brethren church which stands in a very dilapidated condition in the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 28 in Ellison. township, near the north line of the section, about a half mile west of where the old town of. New Lancaster (long since forgotten) was laid out. The church has been out of use for many years, and the cemetery as long. If not longer. All the stones are down Some of them broken, and some covered with dirt so they had to be cleaned before they can be read.The graves are in a small clump of trees but in sorry condition.

The following burials were found:

Alexander McWilliams, died May 8, 1847 ;

Stattina, wife of R.B. McWillians, Oct. 19,1845 22y

Wassom, Jesse May 1, 1850- Jan. 8, 1853

_____Infant son d. May 6, 1876

_____Orpha E. d. Oct. 5, 1879 7 y.

_____Infant daughter d. Feb 1, 1857

*Meacham,George G. son of J. & E. Meacham d. Nov.6, 1854 1 y. 6 m. 28

*Meacham, Nancy F. wife of N.G. Meacham d. Dec. 26, 1854 19 y. 3 m.

Ray, Unica wife of Jeremiah Ray d. Sept. 22, 1845 20 y.

Toll Andrew J., son of W. P., and E.M.Toll, Aug. 23,1854; 1y

Ward,Elizabeth, wife of Hiram Ward, April 6,1855 ;

+ Lewis Elizabeth., daughter of W. W. and A. M, A. Lewis, Sept. 8, 1854 ,and .

John O., their son, April 19,1855 ;

+ Mary, wife of J. J. Johnson, Oct. 15, 1854;

+ Booth, John Calvin, son of' Royal and M. Booth, April 13, 1858 ;

*+ Briley William A., son of .E. R. and K. Briley, March 14,1860

Angela, daughter of J.and E. Godfrey, Oct. 10, 1854.;

*+John Timmons, March 12, 1855 ; 47 y

* +Martha, vife of E. Timmons, March 15, 1855 . 77y

*Briley, Peter Y. son of W.G & E. Briley d. Dec. 9, 1862 2 y.

*Stones found + Timmons Connection

One cluster of three stones records the deaths of Infant, May 6, 18?6;

Infant daughter, Feb.1,1873; and Otha E., Oct. 5. 1879, but nothing was found to show whose children they were.

The burying ground is unfenced and a sad sight.

LANCASTER OR SUGAR GROVE CEMETERY

From the "OLD TIME" Colunn in the Review Atlas dated July 29, 1937 comes this article about the Sugar Grove Cemetery .

This cemetery is located a mile north of Old Salem (one mile north of Route 124 and a little over a half mile west, on a farm once owned by Lee Johnson of Roseville. It is situated on a knoll a short distance south of the house,

Nancy Piper Meacham , wife of Miles G. Meacham, is buried there, she died in 1845, was nineteen years of age at the time of her death. His second wife, Rebecca Coleman Meacham, was also buried there in 1852.

Just a short distance east, on the road running north and south is an old church,known as the Sugar Grove Church , and was of the United Brethren denomination. The building was still standing in 1937 and at that tine it was used for a machine shed. It hadn't been used for church services for 35 years.

This church and cemetery are located about a mile south west of the place where the town of Lancaster once stood, and no doubt it was known as the Lancaster Cemetery to some.

Ellison township On 34 west to Kirkwood then 5 miles to Smithshire.

*Vance Smith now owns the land where the cemetery is located.. If you need to contact him his number is 309-426-2530

Ellison township supervisor: Dennis Gibb

Submitted by Bill Timmons

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