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.