Yatesville was laid out July 16, 1857 by Joseph Hayes and J.R. Bennett. The village failed to achieve any commercial importance. Yatesville Cemetery, about one mile northwest of Yatesville, has become one of the major burying grounds in the area.
On May 19, 1850, when James B. Leighton sold the 10 acre site of what is now Yatesville Cemetery to Isaac and George Epler, no mention was made in the deed regarding the burials already on the site. The Eplers paid $12.50 for the land and any structures thereon. "Deed Record Book 17", page 453, dated Feb. 3, 1875, records the sale of the cemetery site for the sum of $1.00, the 10 acres to be used for a burial ground. The land was sold by Isaac Epler, Margaret E. Epler, Eliza J. Epler, George H. Epler, John Galt, Margaret Galt, Adeline Epler, Eliza J. Epler, Louis C. Epler, William Epler, Emma Epler, Abram Epler and M.V. Epler, of the county of Sangamon, to Isaac L. Jordon, Francis Carney and C.W. Parrott, trustees of the cemetery. On the same page is a document dated May 26, 1875 at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, showing that Abram Epler and M.V. Epler appeared before a notary public and acknowledged that they voluntarily signed the deed. Also on the same page, dated May 24, 1875, is a copy of a document signed in Sangamon County, Illinois, showing that the sellers of the land appeared before a notary public and acknowledged that the sale of the land was voluntary. The deed was recorded in Morgan County, Illinois on August 9, 1875.
In "Deed Record Book 43", page 175, dated Oct. 7, 1887, Isaac L. Jordan, Cyrus W. Parrott and Francis Carney, for $1.00, sold the land by quit claim deed to the Yatesville Cemetery Association. The deed was recorded on October 15, 1887. The cemetery board has maintained Yatesville Cemetery in a very commendable manner. Not all of the 10 acres is suitable for burial purposes. The cemetery is on the west side of Little Indian Creek and adjacent to and south of the Literberry-Prentice road. Yatesville Cemetery is 7 1/2 miles east of Literberry and 2 miles west of Prentice in extreme northeastern Morgan County.
Legal description of the cemetery is 10 acres off the north end of the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 12 in Township 16 N Range 9 W of the Third Principal Meridian. The tombstones in Yatesville Cemetery were originally read and transcribed in 1978 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Dalton (Mary Kathryn), her mother Mrs. Emma Mary Grady, and Mrs. Grady's cousin, Mrs. Frances Stapleton. Earl Deatherage and I re-read this cemetery during October 2005 and took photographs of all the stones we were able to locate. Additional burials (for which we found no stones) have been added from death certificates and/or obituaries. There are other entries which appeared on the original listing for which we found no stones - those have been marked as (No stone found).
Name | Born | Died | Age | Additional Inscription/Information | |
SAGE, Martha W. | (7 Oct) 1849 | (11 Apr) 1928 | |||
SALLEY, C. M. | 13 Mar 1854 | 1y5m16d | Dau of G.A. & T.S. Salley | ||
SALLEY, Elijah | 22 May 1851 | 1d | |||
SALLEY, George A. | 4 Apr 1873 | 2m | |||
SAMPLE, Alice | 25 Jun 187? | 13y7m24d | Dau of W. & M. Sample | ||
SAMPLE, Lola Chloe | 31 Jul 1901 | 27 Aug 1901 | |||
SAMPLE, Luther E. | 23 Jul 1933 | Ill. Pvt. US Army | |||
SAMPLE, Margerit M. | 4 Dec 1868 | 5 Feb 1909 | |||
SAMPLE, William | 21 Aug 1878 | 47y9m7d | |||
SAMPLE, William D. | 27 Sep 1857 | 1 Apr 1901 | |||
SAMPLES, Georgia A. | (14 May) 1870 | (21 Apr) 1924 | |||
SAMPLES, Mary L. | 1838 | 1901 | |||
SANDERS, Sarah J. (Coulson) | (1 Jun) 1845 | (28 Jul) 1929 | 84y1m28d | ||
SCHILDMAN, Jean L. Davison | 23 Feb 1926 | ||||
SCHILDMAN, W. Wallace | 27 Oct 1922 | ||||
SCHROEDER, Tammy J. | 29 Mar 1959 | ||||
SCHROEDER, Stephen J. | 16 Jul 1962 | 24 Aug 1994 | |||
SHEWMAKE, Elmer W. | 24 Mar 1920 | 7 Jan 1973 | Ill. Pvt. US Army | ||
SHEWMAKE, Hazel E. Buker | 18 Jun 1921 | 11 Mar 2005 | |||
SCHILDMAN, Jean L. (Davison) | 23 Feb 1926 | 7 Jun 2011 | (w/o W. Wallace Schildman) | ||
SCHILDMAN, W. Wallace | 27 Oct 1922 | 27 Oct 2007 | (Married 25 Feb 1952) | ||
SHIRTCLIFF, Ferol | 1890 | 1909 | |||
SHIRTCLIFF, Florence J. | 22 Dec 1856 | 4 Apr 1915 | His Wife (Wife of F.F. Shirtcliff) | ||
SHIRTCLIFF, Frederick F. | 2 Nov 1855 | 8 Jul 1902 | |||
SHIRTCLIFF, Harry | 4 Jun 1888 | 28 Jan 1964 | Ill. Pvt. Co. D. 318 Inf WWI | ||
SHOCKLEY, Agnes Davison | 1 Oct 1914 | 13 Dec 1932 | |||
SHORT, Angeline | 24 Jan 1855 | 35y17d | Wife of J.M. Short | ||
SHORT, George A. | 15 Feb 1855 | 11m28d | Son of J.M. & A. Short | ||
SHORT, James M. | 17 Jan 1875 | 63y11m11d | (No stone found) | ||
SHORT, Mary | 19 Sep 1838 | 25y8m9d | Wife of J.M. Short | ||
SHORT, Mary E. | 26 Apr 1855 | 4y3d | Dau of J.M. & A. Short | ||
SHORTRIDGE, Ray B. | (25 Sep 1888) | 1972 | Son of James & Ada Bailey Shortridge | ||
SHORTRIDGE, Sadie E. | 1884 | 1960 | |||
SHORTT, Claressa J. | 14 Mar 1866 | 20y13d | Dau of S. & V. Shortt | ||
SHORTT, Frankie | 4 Mar 1870 | 1y1m7d | Son of S.A. & E. Shortt | ||
SHORTT, Samuel | 12 Nov 1885 | 81y7m21d | |||
SHORTT, Stephen | 10 Dec 1863 | 78y6m2d | |||
SINCLAIR, Isabelle | 20 Jul 1825 | 18 Jun 1903 | |||
SMITH, Alice B. | 1864 | 1943 | |||
SMITH, Charles L. | 1816 | 24 Nov 1880 | 63y11m11d | Born in Hartford, CT (No stone found) | |
SMITH, Charles L. | 1842 | 1904 | Co. I 115th Ill. Inf. | ||
SMITH, Charles W. | 4 May 1864 | 1y10m4d | Son of I. & L. Smith | ||
SMITH, Douglass | 20 Sep 1860 | 26 Apr 1938 | |||
SMITH, Infant | 1900 | 1900 | |||
SMITH, Isaac | 30 Aug 1805 | 9 Nov 1879 | |||
SMITH, James | 28 Sep 1850 | 80y | |||
SMITH, Loren Thomas | 31 May 1916 | 31 May 1916 | Son of Charles B. & Etha McAlister Smith | ||
SMITH, Louella | 1 Mar 1865 | 30 Nov 1931 | |||
SMITH, Lydia | 11 May 1877 | 53y11m30d | Wife of I. Smith | ||
SMITH, Maud J. | 30 Jul 1894 | 26y6m1d | Wife of J.A. Smith | ||
SMITH, Mylo | 1889 | 1893 | |||
SMITH, Nancy J. | 7 Sep 1859 | 1y4m27d | Dau of I. & L. Smith | ||
SMITH, Sarah A. (Gray) | 1844 | 1904 | Wife of Charles L. Smith | ||
SMITH, Walter Sherwood | 26 Dec 1917 | 26 Dec 1917 | s/o C.B. & Etha W. McAlister Smith (No stone found) | ||
SORRELLS, Edward A. | 1873 | 1936 | |||
SORRELLS, Sarah F. | 1884 | 1959 | |||
SPENCER, Elizabeth | 21 Apr 1808 | 1 May 1879 | Wife of Joseph Spencer | ||
SPENCER, Ola Irene | 22 Nov 1899 | 10 Jan 1900 | Dau of J.E. & N.K. Spencer | ||
SPIKER, Bessie E. | 1893 | 1993 | Dau of Charles E. & Mary Spiker | ||
SPIKER, Charles Edward | 29 Nov 1865 | 11 Aug 1948 | |||
SPIKER, Charles Granville | 1907 | (1 Oct) 1931 | Son (Son of Charles E. & Mary Spinker) | ||
SPIKER, Mary Ryman | 1 Oct 1868 | 24 Nov 1949 | Wife of Charles E. Spiker | ||
SPRINGER, Sarah Ann Hickey | 19 Jan 1910 | 7 Jan 1988 | |||
STANDERFORD, William Thomas | 20 Sep 1887 | 26y10m9d | Son of J.R. & E.J. Standerford | ||
STEELE, Gladys Maxine Surratt | 27 Sep 1924 | 16 Nov 2010 | (w/o Dewey Surratt 2) Wm. V. Steele Sr.) | ||
STEVENSON, Betty Decker | 24 Jan 1857 | 7 Oct 1923 | Wife of Ed Stevenson (No stone found) | ||
STICE, John M. | 23 Feb 1867 | 22 Dec 1940 | |||
STICE, Lloyd Russell | (11 Jan) 1897 | (17 Dec) 1915 | |||
STICE, Lula Brown | 26 Jun 1871 | 16 Nov 1951 | |||
STILES, Hazel | 8 Oct 1893 | 6m | (From death cert. - no stone found) | ||
STILTZ, Henry | 1843 | 1902 | Son of Moses Stiltz | ||
STILTZ, Lucy A. Jordan | 1841 | 1904 | |||
STILTZ, Martha M. | (26 Sep) 1882 | (19 Jan) 1971 | Mother | ||
STILTZ, Mary I. | 19 Oct 1858 | 27 Sep 1895 | |||
STILTZ, William I. | (4 Aug) 1876 | (15 Mar) 1933 | Father | ||
STILTZ, William R. | 1919 | 1925 | Son | ||
STOCKTON, Bailey | 1863 | 1939 | Mother | ||
STOCKTON, Frances | 10 Dec 1889 | 17 Jul 1965 | Mother | ||
STOCKTON, Keziah (Cox) | 1835 | 1914 | Mother; Wife of Allen Stockton | ||
STOCKTON, Morgan | 1856 | 1938 | Father | ||
STOCKTON, Ruby Mae | 28 Jul 1915 | 21 Mar 2005 | (d/o Stephen A.D. & Frances (Hixon) Stockton) | ||
STOCKTON, Stephen Arnold Douglas | 21 Apr 1859 | 29 Nov 1929 | Husband of Frances Stockton; Father | ||
STOUT, Aaron | 2 Feb 1882 | 44y9m7d | |||
STOUT, Eliza | 1 Aug 1880 | 64y2m19d | Wife of J. Stout | ||
STOUT, Elvira | 18 Feb 1818 | 20 Mar 1900 | His Wife (Wife of Emley Stout) | ||
STOUT, Emley | 15 Sep 1809 | 30 Jun 1900 | |||
STOUT, George | 21 Apr 1856 | 7m | Son of J. & E. Stout | ||
STOUT, Infant | 31 Aug 1876 | 5d | Dau of G.W. & E. Stout | ||
STOUT, Jonathan | 9 Aug 1840 | 14 Oct 1908 | Brother | ||
STOUT, Jonathan | 28 Oct 1878 | 65y6m22d | |||
STOUT, Joseph Cyrus | 14 Jan 1853 | 6y4m27d | Son of E. & A. Stout | ||
STOUT, Mary F. | 29 Jul 1852 | 1y26d | Dau of E. & A. Stout | ||
STOUT, Philemon | 10 Jul 1863 | 24y11m7d | |||
SURRATT, Dewey B. | 23 Feb 1917 | 18 Mar 2003 | s/o Ray & Hallie Girard Surratt; Marr. 18 Jul 1959 | ||
SURRATT, Gladys M. | 27 Sep 1924 | (Wife of Dewey B. Surratt) | |||
SUTHERD, Irene Irvin | 1901 | 1987 | |||