This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ue.2ADI/1348 Message Board Post: I am curious to know whether anyone can explain the origin of the name of the Dickerson Cemetery in Montgomery Township. According to the published list of burials at this cemetery, there is not a Dickerson to be found. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcrawfo/cems/dicker.html ] I am trying to locate the family of Eli Dickerson (b. 1800) who came to Illinois after 1850 and was living in Claremont Township, Richland County, Illinois in 1860 [his surname on the census was spelled 'Dickinson.'] That year his household consisted of Eli, his wife, Martha [House], aged 56; children Sarah, 23; Mary, 22; Nancy A., 19; Eli C., 16; R[ichard] H., 10; Geo. H., 7; Susannah Grimes, 26 and Susannah's husband G[eorge] W[ilbur] Grimes, 27. Following the census of 1860, the entire family seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. I have never found another sign of Eli, Martha or any of the children. There is at least a tenuous connection between Eli and Crawford County as a cousin of his, Rachel Dickerson Howell, was living in Township #5 [P.O. Hardinsville] in 1860, though she and her family moved to Lawrence County by 1870. Could the Dickerson Cemetery have any connection to Eli's family? Might he have owned the land at one time? Most of the burials listed don't seem old enough to date back to Eli's time, but there are a couple from the 1870's. I would appreciate any information someone might have on this cemetery and how it came by its name. Thank you. Sincerely, Larry Dickerson