> Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:09:21 -0600 > From: Val <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Sometime ago I thought I read that someone is trying to do a restoration > of the cemetery and I wonder if those people could contact me as I have > reason to believe my greatgrandmother may be buried there. Thanks > Valerie There isn't really any "restoration" to do--the cemetery is immaculately mowed, few if any down stones--the problem is the older "illegible" and "no marker" burials which cannot be verified due to the fact that in about 1920 a city sexton who was relieved of his job chose to BURN the records, apparently in retaliation for his termination. The HCGS used every record they could find to record the names of those buried there for their publication, however, it and no other known record, shows where some of these people are actually buried within the cemetery. While we did locate an old plat map of the cemetery at the Kewanee Historical Society, it did not identify who was in each plot.