Doing a little sleuthing I found a James Evans in the 1860 census but not in 1870 in Jackson County; his wife Eliza was living with, I believe a son from a prior marriage. I made an educated guess from the information provided below that this might be your James Evans. From there I went to the IRAD Probate indexed records held in Carbondale and found the following entry which might help in the burial location of your James Evans. You may already have this information but ...here it is anyway. Estate of Evans, James Administrator Marshall Evans Box 19 File 750 Date Feb 21, 1862 Mary Riseling <riseling@insightbb.com> wrote: I know there is a a transcript of Walker Hill Cemetery as I have one but I'm wondering if there are records somewhere that might show folks that are buried there that did not get headstones. I am trying to find the burial location for James W. EVANS and his wife, Eliza Whitson Evans. James was a fairly wealthy merchant and land owner in Grand Tower and I can't imagine he is buried someone other than Walker Hill. One of the children of James from his first marriage is buried there and Eliza's first husband is also buried there. I also checked the Pomona Township Transcripts for the cemeteries that were at one time considered a part of Grand Tower Township but they didn't help either. Any help appreciated. Mary Riseling Springfield, IL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Guidelines: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illinois/JacksonCoWelcome.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJACKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.

Carole, Thanks for all the leg work. I have some of the information from the probate files and, unfortunately, there isn't anything in there about where James is buried. Lots of stuff about the sale of his assets and who all bought them which was quite interesting but I couldn't find any receipts for burial records. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Morton" <notrom@yahoo.com> To: <iljackso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [ILJACKSO] Walker Hill Cemetery > Doing a little sleuthing I found a James Evans in the 1860 census but not > in 1870 in Jackson County; his wife Eliza was living with, I believe a son > from a prior marriage. I made an educated guess from the information > provided below that this might be your James Evans. > > From there I went to the IRAD Probate indexed records held in Carbondale > and found the following entry which might help in the burial location of > your James Evans. You may already have this information but ...here it is > anyway. > > Estate of Evans, James > Administrator Marshall Evans > Box 19 File 750 > Date Feb 21, 1862 > > > Mary Riseling <riseling@insightbb.com> wrote: > I know there is a a transcript of Walker Hill Cemetery as I have one but > I'm > wondering if there are records somewhere that might show folks that are > buried there that did not get headstones. I am trying to find the burial > location for James W. EVANS and his wife, Eliza Whitson Evans. James was a > fairly wealthy merchant and land owner in Grand Tower and I can't imagine > he > is buried someone other than Walker Hill. One of the children of James > from his first marriage is buried there and Eliza's first husband is also > buried there. I also checked the Pomona Township Transcripts for the > cemeteries that were at one time considered a part of Grand Tower Township > but they didn't help either. > Any help appreciated. > > Mary Riseling > Springfield, IL > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Guidelines: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illinois/JacksonCoWelcome.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJACKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > It's here! Your new message! > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Guidelines: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illinois/JacksonCoWelcome.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJACKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message