Hi llist, The surnames I am researching from DeWitt County Illinois are: Fairbanks Myers Check my Web Site for Fairbanks and Myers from DeWitt County Illinois http://www.casstel.net/~jagile/ Jo Ann

Just to let all of you know that I have gotten at least a couple pictures of each cemetery that I visited on my trip on the page now. I will be going through each roll of film now and listing the stones I have pictures of. That will take some time as I have well over 400 pictures. This was an expensive project but when I saw the conditions in some of the older cemeteries, I could not find it in my heart not to take the pictures. I have pictures that my mother took of Hays/Coppenabarger cemetery in 1950 and at least half of the stones no longer exist. I am going to ask each of you who are brothered by the conditions of the cemeteries to write to the Illinois State Controller, who oversee's the laws and conditions of cemeteries and their care. The more who write the more chance someone will listen. The addresses are below and I will request that you send a copy of the letter to each of the two offices. There is also a feedback sight at the State Controller's page you can try that but I cannot get it to accept my messages: http://www.ioc.state.il.us/CemeteryCare/Feedback_EntryForm.cfm Office of the Comptroller - Springfield Executive Office 201 Capitol Springfield, IL 62706-0001 (217) 782-6000 Cemetery Care and Burial Trust 100 West Randolph Street Suite 15-500 Chicago, Illinois 60601 Please be patient for the list of pictures that I do have asit will take some time. I hope that all of you have found this information worth while and I thank each of you for your help. Sincerely, Earliene E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Coordinator for: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/

Waynesville Township, DeWitt Co IL-STEELE AND WINKLE Virginia WINN Parker [email protected] or [email protected] Oxnard, CA

My surnames are: RAGON and BENUS/BUNUS. I have found some RAGON names, but no BENUS. Thank you. Allene Petree [email protected]

I have that Willmore cemetary is in section 28 of Harp township, not Creek. This from some cemetary records pubished by the Decatur gen. soc. in the 70's. Also, do you know if it's possible to look at some more official records regarding Rock Creek Cemetary? I think they're called "sexton" records, or something kept by the caretaker? Matt Scott >From: "Earliene Kaelin" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re Cemetery Information >Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:37:24 -0700 > >I need better locations on the following cemeteries if anyone can provide >it: ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I need better locations on the following cemeteries if anyone can provide it: 1. Alexander Barnett Section 30 of Clintonia township 2. Barnes Section 15 DeWitt Township 3. Burns School Section 06 Texas Township 4. Coulter Section 09 Creek Township 5. Greenleaf Santa Anna Towship 6. Harp Family Section 32 Harp Township 7. Johnson Section 31 Rutledge Township 10. McCord Section 15 DeWitt Township 11. Rucker Chapel Section 24 Wilson Township 12. Thornley Section 24 Tunbridge Township 13. Troutman Section 36 Wilson Township 14. Unnamed Cemetery near Jenkins Switch Section 36 Barnett Township 15. Unknown Cemetery Section 01 Tunbridge township 16. Weaver Section 28 Clintonia Township 17. Willmore Section 28 Creek Township 18. Walters Section 36 Wilson Town ship Thanks for any help you can give, I am trying to develope a new concise and accurate cemetery map.

Promised I would let you know. Earliene Message from Rootsweb: "Our main www/users box is down and not available... Brian has went to the NOC to bring it back online... so things are running on the old www box until the new one is brought back to life. So there is no user level FTP at this time... and also no ETA on fixes as of this time."

I am trying to find out why the problems connecting to the County Page Today, I will let you know as soon as I know. Hope I haven't overworked the system too much. I can connect but get the old set-up instead of the new one with the new cemetery link. I hope this does not inconvience any of you. Earliene

I have started a new cemetery page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/cemeteries/countycemeteries.htm You can reach it from the page by clicking on the cemetery link in the index there. So far I have gotten pictures of several of the cemeteries and short paragraph on them linked Please if you know a better discription of the locations of any of the cemeteries listed or you have pictures of the front of any of them let me know. I would like to show a picture and directions to all the cemeteries if possible. Please let me know what you think but be aware that the pictures do take time to upload. Earliene Kaelin E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Coordinator for: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/ Home Page: http://www.telisphere.com/~cartmill/

I am starting to add pictures to the cemeteries. Let me know if you think this too much trouble as I know they take awhile to load. I added Rock Creek, Halsey and Hall pictures. Earliene E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Coordinator for: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/ Home Page: http://www.telisphere.com/~cartmill/

Hello List, I would like to correspond with anyone who would be researching this family name of ROBINSON, in Farmer City. I have a photo album that has a picture of Dick ROBINSON, his wife Mary MOTE and their son William D. ROBINSON. I have no information on this family unit. Altho, I have information about Mary's father William MOTE and her mother Cordelia TURLEY. This photo album was given to my Grandmother Edith Mote SMITH, May 1866. Any, information about these ROBINSON'S would be a help, as I have not been able to find any. I got that they were here because of Wm. MOTE'S obit. Thank you Jean Hehn Colorado

Can anyone give me the location (other than township and section) on the following cemeteries: Alexander Barnett Section 30 Clintonia Township Burns School Section 34 Texas Township Cackley/Hickman or Mills Section 15 Clintonia Township Coulter Section 9 Creek Township Griffith Section 15 Harp Township Lemen Section 12 Harp Township Thornley Section 24 Tunbridge Township Any Help will be appreciated. Thank you Earliene [email protected]

Camel Hump Cemetery is in section 15 of Waynesville township. It is neat and fairly well groomed. There are some broken stones but this little cemetery seems to have faired better than some. Below is a list of the stones I got pictures of. Baker: Isaac d. 1880 Lucinda wife if Isaac d. 1890 Harris d. 1902 Mary Taylor wife of Harris d. 1916 Joseph P. d. 1908 Malinda J. Stillman wife of Joseph d. 1897 Brown: William d. 1941 Alice M. wife of Wm. D. ??? Cunningham: Myrtle M. d. 1890 S. H. d. 1900 Dessie wife of S.H. d. 1935 W. L. d. 1939 Wm. A. no death date John David Delbert Above four all young James d.1881 Sarah wife of James d. 1901 Dunbar: Almira wife of Ben d. 1900 dau of R. H. & Mary Baker Infant of ben and Mary no dates Ellington David son of W. E. & M. d. 1894 Frisby: Emmaline wife of T. J. d. 1910 Gates: Mary E "Mother" d. 1934 Goldie dau of A.J. & M. E. d. 1895 A. H. (Able Howard) d. 1909 Emaline wife of A. H. no dates Gelsthorpe: Francis M. b. 1851 no death date James d. 1941 Both above sons of William and Mary Delila L. d. 1904 John W. d. 1930 Hammitt Alice d. 1877 Alemeda Williamson d. 1887 Catherine Samuels d. 1891 All above on one stone and dau of R.H. & Mary Baker Liegh, Andrew J. d. 1907 Scott: James P. d. 1912 Letha Baker wife of James P. d. 1945 Smoot: Charles A. d. 1912 Susan his wife d. 1932 Frank d. 1945 Mary his wife d. 1877 Josephine wife of L.H. d. 1896 Henry d. 1890 Mary wife of Henry d. 1885 Soverns: John A. d. 1895 Vanordstrand: William P. d. 1895 Nora wife of Wm. D. 1889 I will scan any of the above pictures, just let me know that you would like them. Earliene Kaelin [email protected] or [email protected] 1118 156th St. East Tacoma, WA. 98445-2324 Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~ildewitt/ Home Page http://www.telisphere.com/~cartmill

Does anyone have the transcriptions for Fremont Cemetery or someone buried there. I need just a couple names so I make sure I did not mismark this one. Thanks for any help. Earliene [email protected]

Fairview Cemetery Located in section 16 of Waynesville township As discribed by a neighbor " just around the corner there is a junk yard and I think I have seen stones in there" That is exactly what I found out behind a house on the corner was a junk yard with old vehicles sitting out ringing the stones. Some stones stacked against what was left of a fence. If anyone would like to see pictures notify me privately and I will scan them to you. Here is who I could locate and have pictures of these stones: Story William 1830-1921 Eliza C. 1833-1898 Daughter Lucy 1860-1879 Here is the 1870 Census for William: William Story wm age 42 b. OH Eliza C. wf age 37 b. OH Nee: Phares m/ 11/27/1851 J. Palmer wm age 17 b. IL Mary E. wf age 15 b. IL Cynthia J. wf age 14 b. MO John wm age 11 b. IL Lucy A. wf age 9 b. IL Sarah wf age 8 b. IL Dell wf age 5 b. MO Bovee William L. 1883-1888 Albert N. 1884-1888 Howard R. 1892-1892 Asel R. 1882-1889 Sons of Baxter and Mary E. Story Bovee m/ 3/27/1877 Houchin James H. 1822-1894 wife Lovina 1824-1904 Frisby Musa daughter of J. and R. Frisby (Probably James R. son of James and Lydia Frisby) Sills Mary daughter of J. C. & C. 1888-1891 Caplinger Alydia daughter of W. N. & C. d. 1880 Cornish Susan wife of Rev. J. S. 1848-1897

Dear List Members, Can someone in Illinois tell me if the State of Illinois does anything about rescue of old cemeteries? Does the Illinois State Genealogical Society keep a list of old cemeteries from information supplied by members? How about the DeWitt County Genealogical Society? This information should not be lost. Earliene, maybe you should write these up for an article in one of the quarterlies. You deserve the credit for seeking them out and reading the tombstones. Shirley in St. Louis, with interest in DeWitt County in the Lane and Nice surnames. Earliene Kaelin wrote: > For all those of you in DeWitt County that need to see the conditions I > found with the cemeteries there, Judy Simpson very kindly sat up this page > for us and for all those in Bath County related to the Hall's please check > this out and then contact me for further information: > http://home.earthlink.net/~2simpsons/Hall.htm > > Earliene Kaelin [email protected]

For all those of you in DeWitt County that need to see the conditions I found with the cemeteries there, Judy Simpson very kindly sat up this page for us and for all those in Bath County related to the Hall's please check this out and then contact me for further information: http://home.earthlink.net/~2simpsons/Hall.htm Earliene Kaelin [email protected]

Hello Everyone.... Wow.. I have just been overwhelmed with requests for lookups... I will get to everyone..just please be patient with me. I can only do this as time permits and do have a full time job. It will be several weeks beofre I get back to eveyone. If you don't hear from me in what you feel is a reasonable time...please message me again... things do get misplaced at times. ;-) Janice [email protected] http://homepage.davesworld.net/~klokdok/blimling.htm

Anyone interested in the conditions of the cemeteries I found: If you will send me your E-mail address and can accept scans I will scan pictures of Hall Cemetery. I will get them in the smallest format I can but they do take a while to upload so be sure that you want to see. I am starting to get my pictures back so I will make lists of what pictures I got where and post them so you can all let me know if you want a scan of the grave sites of your ancestors. Please wait till I post the lists though as I could not take pictures of them all. Earliene [email protected]

Hello to everyone.... I just recently subscribed to the DeWitt List. I live in DeWitt county and would be happy to do reasonable legwork around this area. I live in Clinton and can do some library work or cemetary pics... what ever is needed that I can access. Please feel free to contact me... Janice Petersen [email protected] Just please know that I do have a full time job and will do these as time permits.