The following was taken from the book. EFFINGHAM COUNTY--PAST AND PRESENT. Effingham Historical Society 1968 Bethsaida Cemetery and Bethsaida Church are related. The church is two miles west of Eberle in the northwest corner of section 25 at the crossroads. The cemetery is across the road and northeast in section 24. Both are on land of the Alonzo Jacobs estate. Many of the burials have been made in Bethsaida within the past forty years, although some burials date back to Civil War times. Sixty-one-year old Lilllie E. Mills was remembered by her children with this epitaph on her tomabstone: "She always leaned to watch for me, Anxious if we were late. In winter by the window--In summer by the gate." D.M. Shephard, who lived about two mliles west of Bethsaida Church, while returning from Mason with supplies, was waylaid on the old Flensburg bridge by some squatters he had had trouble with. He was beaten so badly he died. Neighbors found him two days later and he was buried in Bethsaida Cemetery in 1864. Tony Evans, who lived about five miles west of Bethsaida, was buried in 1967, perhaps the most recent burial. Bethsaida is well kept and still used as a neighborhood burial ground. Other names noted on stones in the cemetery are: Jacobs, Woody, Willison, Richars, Mills, Westfall, Gross, Redding, Hummel, Cooper,Martin, White, Osborn, Scruggs, Hinds, Mikeworth, Gossman, Monahan, Cox, Kemke, Redman, Neeld, Willis, Clark and Lohman. Several Civil War soldiers are buried in Bethsaida, including four from Col. John J. Funkhouser's Regiment. the 98th Illinois Infanrry. I will be glad to do look-ups for Bethsaida Cemetery. Audrey Garbe