This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.knox/2168.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't usually answer these queries, but, I felt I must on this one, about Elizabeth Page Beresford. I do the Abingdon Cemetery Records, and noticed Elizabeth Beresford is buried in the Abingdon Cemetery, in the same Burial Plot, as her parents, Daniel and Sarah Stegall Page. Just a short obituary for you. Services For Mrs. Beresford Grave Side Rites At Abingdon Cemetery Tuesday Afternoon. Grave side funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Page Beresford, formerly of Chicago, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. A. Harold Dagley of the Methodist church officiating. The casket bearers were: Frank Singleton, George Amos, Raymond Galusha and C.J. Vander Wert. Burial was in the Abingdon cemetery. Elizabeth Beresford, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Stegall Page, was born on a farm near Abingdon, November 10, 1878, here she grew up attending the rural schools. Early in life she united in the Methodist church. In 1902, she was united in marriage to George Beresford by Rev. F.L. Hanscomb at Abingdon. She was preceded in death by her husband, father, mother and sister, Mrs. Lina Basiger of Kewanee and her only brother; Adelbert Page of Abingdon. Surviving is a niece, Mrs. Dorance Lundstrom and a nephew Guy Page of Wollaston, Mass., besides more distance relatives. Copied as is from the Abingdon Argus. Elizabeth died July 28, 1951, and was buried July 31, 1951 Her husband is not buried with her, unless, he has no stone. I have no record on him.