32. EAST HUMBOLDT CEMETERY
Located in the northeast corner of the township.
The land on which this cemetery is located was originally owned by Charles Cooper but
it does not seem to have been a family graveyard. The earliest burial is that of a
Devour child, in 1864 and the last known interment is of Stephen Cooper in 1898.
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33. GARDNER (Union, Walker) CEMETERY
Located on the Coles-Douglas County line. It is three miles north of Humboldt and two
miles west. Tall trees, waist high weeds and brush make it almost impossible to
enter.
George Brannock first owned the land where the cemetery is located and he was buried
there in 1834.
from The Prairie Sleeps, Vol. II
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34. IOOF HUMBOLDT CEMETERY
Located about a mile west of the village of Humboldt.
This cemetery was started in 1885 when John Moore donated five acres of land in
Section 6 to Prospect Lodge of Humboldt. The first burial was of Dora Moore, his
daughter. She had been buried in the old cemetery during the winter, because the snow
was too deep to drive out to the new one. Moore's father also donated the sum of
$1,000 to landscape the cemetery, one of the first to be done in this area. Over 400
evergreens were planted for this purpose and some are still shading the center of the
grounds.
Following the opening of the new cemetery, many of the graves from the old cemetery
were moved here. In 1902 the lodge purchased the adjoining 15 acres to expand the
cemetery. The burying ground was later given to the township and remains today as one
of the most beautiful in the country. Many of the settlers of the German community,
east of Doran, used this cemetery as there was no graveyard adjoining their church.
Mr. and Mrs. August Meyer, who came to Illinois in the 1890's are buried here.
When they came to America, Mrs. Meyer (Carloine Bohne) had packed among their
household possessions, a cloth measuring 25 inches wide by 8 feet long, which was
called a Leichen-Laken in German. Translated it means "covering for the
dead". In a time before the embalming process, it was used to cover the corpse
for the short time between death and burial. It had been among the linens her mother
had woven from home-grown flax fibers, and prepared for her own trousseau in 1838.
Today the 146 year old cloth is a treasured keepsake, handed down through generations
to Meyer descendants, Mr. and Mrs. Melavin Nolte.
from The Prairie Sleeps, Vol. II
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35. WEST HUMBOLDT (Old Cemetery) CEMETERY
Located
three-fourth of a mile west of the village of Humboldt.
Land for the cemetery was donated by Benjamin F. Beavers in 1857. The earliest burial
was made in 1855 before it was laid out. After the IOOF Cemetery was opened, the Old
Cemetery was seldom used.
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