Riverside Cemetery is well maintained by Illiopolis Township. It is a fairly large cemetery with burials beginning in the 1860's. Several earlier burials can be found at Wilcox Cemetery, Illiopolis as well as Long Point Cemetery in Niantic Township in Macon County.

Riverside Cemetery is located approximately one and one-half miles south of Interstate 72 on the Mechanicsburg blacktop and is approximately two miles south of the village of Illiopolis. Address is 1500 Dye Road, located at County markers 21E S. Dye Rd & Mechanicsburg/Illiopolis Rd and 1.5 Myers Rd. (Signs just pass the entrance to the cemetery) Legal description for plat maps located below the title at the top of the page.

Information herein was obtained from onsite tombstone readings, photographs, cemetery and funeral home records as well as my personal knowledge and relationship to some of the families. Publications of this cemetery were made by the Decatur Area Genealogical Society and later the Sangamon County Genealogical Society, both of whom have the publication for sale. My readings were compared with these previous readings in order to verify, compare and correct. Due to the age of some of the stones, it is sometimes difficult to get a correct reading or photograph.

For cemetery records for those persons whom a TOMBSTONE COULD NOT be found, CLICK HERE.

For List of Lot Owners in 1900, CLICK HERE

As with all transcribed records, errors could be made and one should document with other sources. For additions or corrections please notify Mary Ann Kaylor