Diamond Grv. Potters Field, Sec. D
ILLINOIS CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL
BURIAL RECORDS
DIAMOND GROVE CEMETERY, Jacksonville, IL
SECTION D - POTTERS FIELD
From Florence Hutchison:
Diamond Grove Cemetery started burials in the latter part of 1867. Lots 380 to 456 in Section D, on the
extreme south edge of Diamond Grove were set aside as Potter's Field, with single grave lots being from 457 to 479.
Lots 380 and 381 were used as the road entrance on the south side of the cemetery.
State Hospital Patients were buried in lots 382 to ?. In 1883 the State of Illinois purchased lots in Section
H of Diamond Grove and used this as their burial grounds until 1954.
Dr. Andrew McFarland, having resigned his position in the State Hospital in June 1870, he soon after
established the OakLawn Retreat on the east edge of Jacksonville, a private institution for the treatment of insane
patients, which he conducted with a great degree of success during the remainder of his life. Dr. McFarland
committed suicide 22 November 1891. For those patients not sent to their county of residence as requested by
relatives, he buried them in Potter's Field in Section D. We have no source for these records except as they might
be listed on the Diamond Grove Cemetery's chronological listings of burials in Potter's Field in Section D.
From Shirley Aleguas:
I've combined two listings, both prepared by Florence, into the listing included below. The first list came
from records in the City Clerk's office, written in the back of a book. Since there is no further information available
anywhere for these people, and no tombstone markings of any kind, except bare ground, there is no need for any
person finding a relative here making further inquiry in Morgan County. Their only other source of information
might be in the Circuit Court Clerk's office of the home county of the patient for probate. These records can be
identified in the list below by the information included which consists of:
Burial Date, Name of Deceased, County From.
The second list which I used to prepare the following combined list was also prepared by Florence. About
this list, she says, “in 1878 the State of Illinois passed a law that death records were to be filed with the County
Clerks, under the jurisdiction of the State Public Health Department. The County Clerk wrote the data in big books
on a couple of lines across 2 pages, giving name, death date, age, where born, marital status, and name of cemetery,
only. Unfortunately, we have no record as to which county these patients came from.” She went on to say that she
had spent many hours checking the names as written by the Cemetery Sexton in the City Clerk's records against the
death record book in the County Clerk's office because there was a great discrepancy in the spelling of names. The
version given here coincides with that on the death index. These records can be identified by the following
information which is: Death Date, Name of Deceased, Age, Born Where, and Marital Status.
Again, none of these burials have stones. How wonderful it would be if family researchers finding
ancestors in one of these lists or in the lists for Section H of Diamond Grove Cemetery would finally mark the
resting places of these forgotten souls.
Burial
Date |
Death Date |
Name of Deceased |
From County |
Age |
Born |
MS |
Remarks |
|
14 June 1882 |
Ahrens, Elizabeth |
|
36 |
Germ |
M |
|
15 July 1876 |
|
Akers, Elen |
|
31 |
|
|
|
9 Jul 1872 |
|
Alston, Fannie |
Jo Daviess |
|
|
|
|
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17 Dec 1880 |
Ambrose, Lee |
|
75 |
unk |
M |
|
23 Dec 1871 |
|
Anderson, Alice |
Hancock |
|
|
|
|
7 Feb 1872 |
|
Baines, Benjamin |
Sangamon |
|
|
|
|
|
22 Nov 1879 |
Barrett, Florence |
|
45 |
Ire |
M |
|
|
1 Nov 1880 |
Barton, James F. |
|
35 |
|
|
Not on Death Index |
13 Mar 1872 |
|
Bell, Mary |
Cook |
|
|
|
|
|
4 Aug 1879 |
Bethel, DeWitt C. |
|
18 |
IL |
S |
|
|
13 Dec 1882 |
Birch, David |
|
27 |
unk |
S |
|
16 Mar 1876 |
|
Bird, Mary A. |
|
44 |
|
|
|
19 June 1871 |
|
Bowers, Elizabeth |
Livingston |
|
|
|
|
Jan 1874 |
|
Boyd, Mrs. J. |
Randolph |
|
|
|
|
|
21 Nov 1882 |
Broguart, Victor |
|
42 |
Franc |
M |
|
|
1 Nov 1881 |
Brokaw, Noah |
|
22 |
MO |
S |
|
6 Dec 1872 |
|
Broleg, Augustus |
Stephenson |
|
|
|
|
13 June 1871 |
|
Brown, George |
Grundy |
|
|
|
|
30 May 1876 |
|
Brown, John H. |
|
33 |
|
|
|
|
25 Jul 1880 |
Buckler, Mary |
|
40 |
IL |
M |
|
15 June 1877 |
|
Burnett, Lenora |
|
26 |
|
|
|
4 Jan 1872 |
|
Buston, Esther |
Macon |
|
|
|
|
16 June 1871 |
|
Buys, Elizabeth |
Jo Daviess |
|
|
|
|
4 Mar 1872 |
|
Callton (?), Anna |
Carroll |
|
|
|
|
27 Aug 1877 |
|
Carney, Peter |
|
38 |
|
|
|
28 Nov 1875 |
|
Caston, Elizabeth |
|
69 |
|
|
|
|
4 Apr 1880 |
Chamberlaid, Winnie H. |
|
22 |
NY |
S |
|
9 Sep 1875 |
|
Christy, Amanda |
|
43 |
|
|
|
|
5 Nov 1879 |
Claywell, Benjamin |
|
43 |
unk |
M |
|
|
25 Sep 1881 |
Clowter, Mary E. |
|
26 |
IL |
S |
|
19 May 1877 |
|
Condit, Mary E. |
|
27 |
|
|
|
|
30 May 1879 |
Craig, Ferbay J. |
|
45 |
Ind |
M |
|
July 1873 |
|
Cramer, Alonzo |
Ford |
|
|
|
|
21 May 1871 |
|
Crowley, John |
St. Clair |
|
|
|
|
28 June 1876 |
|
Cunningham, Catharine |
|
50 |
|
|
|
30 May 1873 |
|
Curry, Mary |
Macoupin |
|
|
|
|
6 Jan 1875 |
|
Daniels, John |
Perry |
|
|
|
|
5 June 1877 |
|
Danner, Anna |
|
18 |
|
|
|
|
31 Dec 1879 |
Davis, Marilda |
|
28 |
IL |
W |
|
|
7 Nov 1878 |
Davis, Mary |
|
63 |
Ky |
W |
|
|
16 Nov 1882 |
Dawson, John |
|
37 |
Switz |
S |
|
25 Apr 1877 |
|
Dean, Martha H. |
|
56 |
|
|
|
27 Apr 1872 |
|
DeBolt, George |
Peoria |
|
|
|
|
|
29 Apr 1882 |
DeBoy, Emet |
|
21 |
unk |
S |
|
5 July 1875 |
|
Dedgman, Thomas |
|
65 |
|
|
|
11 Dec 1874 |
|
Delaney, Almira |
Tazewell |
|
|
|
|
|
4 Apr 1881 |
Denken, Tonjes I. |
|
53 |
Germ |
M |
|
|
12 Mar 1878 |
Denton, Robert |
|
34 |
Ire |
S |
|
|
15 Oct 1881 |
Devine, Annie |
|
25 |
Ire |
S |
|
|
1 May 1881 |
Dicey, Mrs. |
|
41 |
Eng |
M |
|
|
24 Apr 1881 |
Disbrow, Abigail C. |
|
67 |
NY |
W |
|
|
30 Aug 1882 |
Dodwell, Christopher |
|
29 |
NJ |
S |
|
|
7 Nov 1880 |
Donaldson, Christina |
|
40 |
Swed |
M |
|
16 Aug 1872 |
|
Drappel, Anna |
Rock Island |
|
|
|
|
8 Dec 1877 |
|
Dunn, Bridget |
|
50 |
|
|
|
19 Jul 1872 |
|
Dunsine, Sophie |
Jersey |
|
|
|
|
|
22 Mar 1879 |
Duscharme/Deutcharme, Odilla |
|
31 |
Cana |
M |
|
|
8 Jan 1879 |
Eggleston, Henry C. |
|
45 |
Ind |
M |
|
|
14 May 1882 |
Ellsworth, Ellen |
|
27 |
unk |
M |
|
30 Jul 1872 |
|
Farmer, Mary |
Morgan |
|
|
|
|
14 Mar 1876 |
|
Fehr, Frederick |
|
26 |
|
|
|
6 Jan 1875 |
|
Ferman, Harriet |
McLean |
|
|
|
|
|
9 Apr 1879 |
Ferrel, Nancy |
|
40 |
Ind |
M |
|
|
18 Mar 1882 |
Flore, Robert |
|
58 |
Ind |
M |
|
30 June 1873 |
|
Foley, Maurice |
Macon |
|
|
|
|
|
7 Apr 1878 |
Forestel, James |
|
35 |
Ire |
S |
|
19 Oct 1875 |
|
Fortwangler, godfrey |
|
38 |
|
|
|
1 Feb 1875 |
|
Futtlinger, Annie |
Cook |
|
|
|
|
31 July 1877 |
|
Galaspie, John |
|
68 |
|
|
|
22 Mar 1872 |
|
Gandy, Joseph |
Douglas |
|
|
|
|
|
27 Dec 1879 |
Garvin, Samuel |
|
47 |
OH |
M |
Buried in Franklin? |
12 Dec 1872 |
|
Gebig, Fred A. |
Cass |
|
|
|
|
25 Dec 1870 |
|
Goodpature, ___ |
Knox |
|
|
|
|
|
31 Dec 1882 |
Green, Mary J. |
|
21 |
IL |
|
|
22 Apr 1872 |
|
Griffin, Pat |
Livingston |
|
|
|
|
11 Nov 1876 |
|
Gunn, Maria L. |
|
34 |
|
|
|
28 Apr 1877 |
|
G--van, Rebecca |
|
50 |
|
|
|
16 Dec 1876 |
|
Hamilton, Lucy A. |
|
26 |
|
|
|
7 Feb 1872 |
|
Hampkins (?), C. N. |
Henry |
|
|
|
|
|
16 Jul 1878 |
Hancock, James |
|
78 |
Ky |
M |
|
|
6 Feb 1880 |
Hand, John |
|
54 |
Ind |
M |
|
2 June 1874 |
|
Hanners, John |
Cass |
|
|
|
|
7 Mar 1877 |
|
Harper, John B. |
|
21 |
|
|
|
|
9 June 1881 |
Hearth/Herth, Mary |
|
57 |
Germ |
57 |
|
22 Sep 1871 |
|
Hereford, James |
Hardin |
|
|
|
|
18 July 1871 |
|
Hilton, Mary |
St. Clair |
|
|
|
|
16 Nov 1874 |
|
Hobart, Lewis |
Bureau |
|
|
|
|
|
26 May 1882 |
Hodgens, Maria |
|
40 |
Eng |
S |
|
4 Aug 1873 |
|
Holiday, Margaret |
Mercer |
|
|
|
|
24 July 1871 |
|
Howard, Carrie |
Cook |
|
|
|
|
4 Sep 1875 |
|
Hughes, Sarah |
|
28 |
|
|
|
|
25 Aug 1879 |
Hustin, John W. |
|
35 |
US |
S |
|
1 Jul 1872 |
|
Inman, Aaron |
Union |
|
|
|
|
|
11 Jan1881 |
Iverson, Charlotte E. |
|
36 |
IL |
S |
|
|
7 May 1880 |
Jackson, Matilda |
|
41 |
IL |
M |
|
|
29 Aug 1882 |
Jemison, Benjamin |
|
38 |
Tenn |
S |
|
17 July 1871 |
|
Johns, William A. |
Clark |
|
|
|
|
13 Feb 1873 |
|
Johnson, August |
Cook |
|
|
|
|
|
13 Nov 1878 |
Johnson, Matilda |
|
28 |
Swed |
S |
|
25 Dec 1871 |
|
Johnson, Moses |
Grundy |
|
|
|
|
2 Nov 1877 |
|
Johnson, Ruth A. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
25 Oct 1881 |
Jones, Laura T. |
|
26 |
IL |
S |
|
6 Aug 1873 |
|
Jones, W. F. |
Pope |
|
|
|
|
July 1873 |
|
Kavaman, Kate |
Woodford |
|
|
|
|
4 Apr 1876 |
|
Klamvotto, William |
|
35 |
|
|
|
|
22 Jan 1882 |
Klemel, Elizabeth |
|
40 |
IL |
M |
|
|
7 Nov 1880 |
Kline, Hiram R. |
|
39 |
unk |
M |
|
13 Sep 1875 |
|
Kreps, Jessee |
|
30 |
|
|
|
16 Aug 1876 |
|
Laeses, Philopena |
|
46 |
|
|
|
9 June 1875 |
|
Lambert, Frances |
|
58 |
|
|
|
15 Feb 1873 |
|
Lawrance, Stephen |
Johnson |
|
|
|
|
|
19 Oct 1878 |
Leach, Frank |
|
54 |
US |
M |
|
3 Apr 1873 |
|
Leary, James |
Effingham |
|
|
|
|
|
25 Mar 1879 |
Lewis, Johannah |
|
40 |
Ire |
M |
|
28 Feb 1877 |
|
Linn, James |
|
42 |
|
|
|
July 1873 |
|
Loill, Harriet |
Hancock |
|
|
|
|
|
26 Aug 1879 |
Lukins, Amanda |
|
31 |
IL |
M |
|
|
14 Apr 1879 |
Lynch, Catharine |
|
35 |
Ire |
M |
|
30 Apr 1873 |
|
Mading, Champion H. |
Edwards |
|
|
|
|
2 July 1871 |
|
Mahan, Bridget |
Randolph |
|
|
|
|
|
17 Nov 1878 |
Martin, Lucy |
|
54 |
Fran |
W |
|
|
13 Mar 1878 |
McCann, Josiah |
|
22 |
IL |
S |
|
1 Aug 1874 |
|
McGorn, Nancy |
Crawford |
|
|
|
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16 Feb 1872 |
|
McNutt, Samuel |
Cass |
|
|
|
|
|
1 Aug 1880 |
Meneerhausen, Angelina |
|
52 |
Germ |
M |
|
|
6 Sep 1882 |
Merrill, Elenora |
|
41 |
Ky |
M |
|
|
6 June 1881 |
Mewman/Merriman?, Woodford L. |
|
32 |
|
|
|
|
25 Sep 1882 |
Mill, Charles |
|
31 |
Eng |
|
|
22 July 1871 |
|
Miller, Emma |
Clark |
|
|
|
|
20 Dec 1875 |
|
Mills, Elmira |
|
34 |
|
|
|
14 Feb 1873 |
|
Montgomery, Robert |
Clark |
|
|
|
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26 Apr 1875 |
|
Morris, Joseph F. |
|
22 |
|
|
|
22 Apr 1871 |
|
Morrison, Joseph |
Randolph |
|
|
|
|
28 Oct 1871 |
|
Mott, Sarah |
Peoria |
|
|
|
|
3 Nov 1876 |
|
Nash, Guilford W. |
|
36 |
|
|
|
12 Jan 1872 |
|
Nelson, Peter |
McDonough |
|
|
|
|
22 Feb 1876 |
|
Nolling, Edah |
|
22 |
|
|
|
4 Nov 1872 |
|
Northrop, A. B. |
Iroquois |
|
|
|
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29 May 1876 |
|
O'Brien, Anna |
|
|
|
|
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11 Mar 1872 |
|
O'Dannell/O'Donnell, Hugh |
Livingston |
|
|
|
|
|
17 Jul 1880 |
Oderkirk, Percy |
|
33 |
NY |
S |
|
|
7 July 1882 |
Ohl, Anna |
|
32 |
Germ |
M |
|
|
24 Dec 1882 |
Overstreet, Margaret E. |
|
29 |
unk |
M |
|
|
8 Jan 1880 |
Patton, Eliza |
|
32 |
Eng |
M |
|
|
29 Apr 1882 |
Peterson, George |
|
49 |
Germ |
M |
|
28 Sep 1871 |
|
Peterson, H. S. |
Henry |
|
|
|
|
|
15 Mar 1879 |
Peterson, Louisa C. |
|
57 |
Swed |
M |
|
29 Aug 1872 |
|
Pettit, Mary A. |
Edgar |
|
|
|
|
|
24 May 1879 |
Phillips, Neamiah |
|
53 |
unk |
M |
|
11 Mar 1874 |
|
Price, Amelia |
Monroe |
|
|
|
|
|
20 Apr 1879 |
Pumphrey, Elijah |
|
31 |
IL |
M |
|
25 Jan 1871 |
|
Ralls, John |
Williamson |
|
|
|
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19 Oct 1875 |
|
Ramsberg, Isaiah |
|
30 |
|
|
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|
2 Jan 1880 |
Randolph, John |
|
30 |
IL |
S |
|
12 Oct 1872 |
|
Ratcliff, Eliza A. |
Moultrie |
|
|
|
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17 Aug 1877 |
|
Reisch, Catharine |
|
50 |
|
|
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|
7 Aug 1880 |
Reno, Galena J. |
|
23 |
IL |
S |
|
14 Jan 1872 |
|
Roderick, Mary |
Morgan |
|
|
|
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28 Jan 1878 |
Rojahn, Henry |
|
50 |
Germ |
M |
|
15 Aug 1873 |
|
Rose, William |
Brown |
|
|
|
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5 Feb 1881 |
Rowley, Mary E. |
|
45 |
NY |
S |
|
22 July 1875 |
|
Ruff, James |
|
32 |
|
|
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26 Dec 1871 |
|
Russell, Hattie |
Sangamon |
|
|
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25 Aug 1874 |
|
Ryan, Mary |
Shelby |
|
|
|
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15 Feb 1878 |
Sandquist, John |
|
25 |
Swed |
S |
|
|
10 Apr 1881 |
Scanlan, Martha |
|
49 |
OH |
W |
|
|
5 Aug 1880 |
Schell, Axel E. |
|
25 |
Swed |
S |
|
22 Oct 1873 |
|
Schultz, Barbara |
Cook |
|
|
|
|
6 July 1876 |
|
Scott, Cyrus D. |
|
24 |
|
|
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24 Aug 1872 |
|
Searling, Emily |
Montgomery |
|
|
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11 Dec 1874 |
|
Sharon, Mary A. |
Pike |
|
|
|
|
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1 Feb 1878 |
Shay, Peter |
|
23 |
Ire |
S |
|
16 Aug 1875 |
|
Shull, Daniel |
|
45 |
|
|
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3 Mar 1879 |
Siebert, Henry |
|
35 |
Germ |
M |
|
23 Dec 1871 |
|
Smiley, Laura |
McHenry |
|
|
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15 Sep 1875 |
|
Smith, James |
|
34 |
|
|
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Sep 1874 |
|
Smith, Margaret |
Cook |
|
|
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12 Oct 1875 |
|
Smith, Narcissa |
|
31 |
|
|
|
|
9 Oct 1880 |
Soward, Hester E. |
|
37 |
IL |
M |
|
30 July 1874 |
|
Soward, John |
Woodford |
|
|
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29 Oct 1877 |
|
Stahl, Martha |
|
45 |
|
|
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4 Sep 1871 |
|
Stephenson, Mary A. |
Pulaski |
|
|
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1 Aug 1871 |
|
Sullivan, Edward |
Jersey |
|
|
|
|
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11 May 1880 |
Thompson, Lydia M. |
|
52 |
Ky |
S |
|
16 Feb 1872 |
|
Thompson, Mary J. |
Johnson |
|
|
|
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15 Jan 1875 |
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Thompson, Rebecca |
Madison |
|
|
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9 June 1876 |
|
Thrift, Freazin |
|
77 |
|
|
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31 Mar 1882 |
Tinkel, Charles |
|
27 |
unk |
S |
|
30 June 1874 |
|
Tinzley, Mary E. |
Clark |
|
|
|
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2 May 1880 |
Tool, Caledonia |
|
34 |
OH |
M |
|
|
19 May 1878 |
Trailor/Trasley, Thomas |
|
38 |
US |
S |
|
|
6 Apr 1882 |
Turner, Alexander |
|
45 |
Ire |
M |
|
8 Feb 1876 |
|
Turner, Frank |
|
22 |
|
|
|
|
14 July 1881 |
Turney, Kitty A. |
|
39 |
Ky |
M |
|
3 Jan 1873 |
|
Unknowns - 2 |
|
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|
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8 Jul 1880 |
Unziker, Rudolph |
|
24 |
Germ |
S |
|
|
3 July 1882 |
Valentine, Katy |
|
35 |
Germ |
M |
|
15 Feb 1874 |
|
Van Altman, Anna |
Richard |
|
|
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1 July 1875 |
|
VanGelder, Isaac N. |
|
47 |
|
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30 Sep 1881 |
Von Bremen, Hugo |
|
57 |
Germ |
S |
|
|
10 Mar 1881 |
Walch, Mark |
|
40 |
|
|
|
28 Aug 1872 |
|
Waller, Dow |
Madison |
|
|
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22 Feb 1875 |
|
Ward, William |
Union |
|
|
|
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|
12 Nov 1880 |
Wayman, William |
|
29 |
unk |
S |
|
|
1 Apr 1878 |
Weems/Wems, Robert L. |
|
48 |
Ky |
M |
He was a doctor |
|
29 June 1881 |
Wells, Ellen |
|
26 |
IL |
M |
|
21 Mar 1877 |
|
Wheeler, Flora V. |
|
16 |
|
|
|
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29 Mar 1879 |
White, Mary J. |
|
48 |
IL |
M |
|
|
16 May 1882 |
White, Samuel |
|
46 |
OH |
M |
|
|
26 Sep 1878 |
Wike, Mary |
|
39 |
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Rmvd to Bloomington |
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12 Sep 1880 |
Willy, Catherine |
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49 |
Germ |
M |
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19 Nov 1874 |
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Woerner, Henry |
Tazewell |
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19 Sep 1881 |
Wood, Theresa |
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43 |
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M |
Removed to unk place |
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31 Jan 1879 |
Yost, Mary |
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22 |
IL |
S |
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7 May 1879 |
Young, Charles |
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37 |
Swed |
M |
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