Jere wrote: >Does anyone know where Camp Douglas is located? >Apparently around Chicago somewhere. Many Civil War Confederate >prisoner were buried there. > >Jere Braden.... *********************************************************************** Jere, Camp Douglas does not exist any longer, however you can read about it by visiting the below listed web site and searching Oak Woods Cemetery history. You can go to links that may discuss Camp Douglas also. I posted this to some other lists awhile ago. ______________________________________________ For anyone who may interested in further >information on cemeteries Jim Tipton has assembled a very good web site >called, "FIND A GRAVE." There are many links to various other cemetery >related web sites. For example you can view many photos of Oak Woods >Cemetery after clicking links to Chicago Cemeteries. > >To view go to: <http://www.findagrave.com/index.html> > >Bob Colby > >----------------------------------------------- > > >I thought that some of you may be interested in this news story about a >Chicago cemetery and monuments. In particular how large monuments are not >erected much any more due to the great cost. > >BTW. My father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather >are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery. > >I remember, as a small child accompanying my grand parents and parents to >the cemetery. While my relatives tended to the grave sites, I played >amongst the monuments, always wondering about all of the stories that could >have been told by all of those people that were buried there. > >I still go there once a year. But the neighborhood is now surrounded by >vacant lots, dilapidated buildings, boarded-up businesses and run down >apartment buildings. > >To view, go to: <http://www.dailysouthtown.com> Then you will need to search the archives for a story in past, (October 98), "Living" Section, titled "Grave Thoughts." > >Happy ancestor hunting >Bob Colby > > >==== COLBY Mailing List ==== >Visit a Colby home page: >http://www.iamnow.net/Bradford/Brdcolby.htm >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/o/u/Sherry-L-Gould/GENE7-0001.html >http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/rcolby/colby_ft.htm >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/o/Nancy-E-Shockey/index.html >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/l/Robert-C-Colby-jr/index.html >