36. ANDERSON CEMETERY
Land was given by Elias Anderson, Diona farmer. There are 3 blank stones, C.A.or E.,
H. A. probably Elias and Hannah Place Anderson.
Taken from a paper on Anderson Cemetery.
On April 17, 1981, I contacted Joe Stephens as the land the Anderson Cemetery is
located in Section 8, Hutton Twp., Coles County Illinois and he said to would be
alright to drive across his farm fields to get to the cemetery. The cemetery is
approximate in the middle of Section 8. Mr. Stephens had cleared off the cemetery the
past winter and removed the old cemetery fence. There are only a few stones standing,
as most of the slab like stones had fallen to the ground. Miss Lois Adams had told me
That there were a number of monuments that had been buried in a part of the cemetery
south part I think, and it had been necessary for her and her cousin to scrape away
some dirt to locate the stones. She salvaged Rachel Anderson's headstone (her
great great grandmother also mine) and she had it at residence in Mattoon, IL. Her
cousin also has his father's headstone.
There were four or five stones still standing of which one was my Great-Great
Grandfather James Anderson's. He was husband of Rachel Anderson.
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37. BEAVERS CEMETERY
Located a short distance South and East of Hutton, Illinois back in a field.
William Beavers born July 23, 1797, in Loudoun Co., VA died Feb 25, 1882, at his home
in Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL, just east of the Beavers graveyard, about 20 rods.
This house stood about a quarter of a mile east of the Salisbury store and was built
of logs, when he and his Nancy Brandenburg settled there in the timber. Indians were
then roaming through the woods.
At the age of 17 years he drove a team and wagon through to Barren Co., KY. for a
party;, and remained there four or five years. That was about 1814. After he married
Nancy Brandenburg they lived about a year with her parents, renting a farm. In 1820
they emigrated to Clay Co., Indiana where they lived 7 years. In 1827 they came to
Clark Co., Illinois, and settled near Richwoods, which was about three miles east of
where Westfield, Illinois afterwards was laid out. They lived here three years. In
1830 he entered and moved upon the land east of Salisbury, where they spent the
balance of their lives. He entered here 80 acres of land. His cabin had a puncheon
floor. The Kickapoo Indians were their neighbors in the woods. While cutting some bee
trees at Long Point, he saw the Indian runners sent out by Black Hawk, calling the
Indians together prior to the Black Hawk War. In his 82nd year he was remarkably
active for his age. His mother died in Virginia when he was just an infant and his
father died in Locust Grove, Adams Co., Ohio to where he had removed some years
before.William and Nancy were married on 10 Feb 1821 in Hardin Co., Kentucky. Nancy
was the dau. of Henry Brandenburg.
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BELL CEMETERY
Location unknown
Elizah Adams----The Bell graveyard was established after the Hurricane burial place.
These are the first graveyards I recall in the early days of Hutton Township.
J. K. Rardin, May 28, 1910
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38. BRANDENBURG CEMETERY
Given by Solomen Brandenburg, Sr. as a public Cemetery.
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j. FIVE MILE HOUSE (Cartwright) CEMETERY
No information
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k. FREEMAN CEMETERY
Probate Records: Book B 1848 56 Coles County page 338
Probate letter of Admin. to John Grant Jan. 12, 1856 for estate of Lydia Freeman
deceased.
Gilfillin built a log house, it was in this house that Simon Rennels went to
housekeeping, to the south east edge of the same range of hills Flemming had built a
log house years ago. There is a tradition that he killed an Indian here for some
cause or other and built the house for protection desiring to live in the
neighborhood. The marks of the trail can be destiny to this day. It crossed the river
near the mouth of the Whetstone Creek.
The Freeman Cemetery is in the extreme N.W. corner of this same field, on a hill just
at the creek. Very few stones remain in 1925.
Stephen S. Freeman and Hannah built near the bottom of the high hill at the S.W.
corner of the W.W. 1/4 of Sec 20 T11 R10E, it was a log cabin. The family had so much
sickness that he thought it was to damp in the low ground so he moved the house up on
top of the hill. This hill had a commanding view up the Whetstone bottom west and is
about the highest hill in this range. He had a water mill to grind corn and also a
saw mill. Some of the logs used in the dam are in the creek
Information from Sam Sargents papers
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39. GRANT CEMETERY
Located south east of Charleston- Go east on Harrison Street Road to Providence
Church, then south on (Snake Trail Road) left side of road.
John Grant b. 11 Jun 1809 in county Downs, Ireland, d. 24 May 1885, Coles Co.,
IL.
Spouse: Sophia Lively b. 23 Jun 1817, VA, d. 11 Aug 1883, deeded ten acres of ground
about 1857 for use as a free cemetery. This ground was blessed by the Catholic
Church.
The first Burial was Thomas Grant in 1857, 2nd was soldier from Boomer, IN in 1860.
Both John and Sophia are buried in the cemetery.
Mrs. Kathryn Merritt Endsley of Arkadelphia, Arkansas had the deed for the cemetery.
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40. HURRICANE CEMETERY
Coels Co., IL - Hutton Twp: Section 18, Township 11N, Range 10E
Located 8 to 9 miles south of Charleston, Illinois on Route 130 across the road from
Hurricane Church
Elizah Adams of Hutton --- The first grave, I remember in Hutton, was that at
Hurricane graveyard, shortly after we came to the county. An old man named Boatwright
was buried there, about 1837. He was down from about Fort LaMotte, now Palestine and
he was a pioneer down there. He was a blacksmith and moved to this new county. I
think he was related to old Johnny Moore's family. The next burial was that of a
Pennsylvania Dutch school master, who's name I have forgotten although I helped
dig his grave in 1844. He was a very able teacher and he died of typhoid. The next
was my brother, who died of Lung fever--that is what they called in those days.
Newspaper May 28, 1910, J. K. Rardin
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41. OLD KELLEY CEMETERY
Located off Route 130 about 1/4 mile after crossing Embarrass River on south side,
second knoll.
Said to be oldest burial place in Coles County. Land donated by James Kelley,
grandfather of Flowwie Kelley Replogle.
The first death in Hutton Twp. (it was 1825 and still Clark Co.) was Mrs Whitten,
wife of millwright who worked on th Parker Mill on the east ban of the Embarras River
in their early settlement. She was buried on the bluff, a few hundred yards east of
the mill. "Aunt" Polly Kellogg, wife of Samuel--member of the Parker party,
and who is buried in the Old City Cemetery, said sheattended the first funeral in the
county,(probably) Mrs. Whitten's) and that the grave was covered with stones to
keep the wolves away.
This cemetery is probably also the site of the burial of a man who, in March, 1826,
was found frozen "sitting at the root of a tree with a bridle thrown over his
shoulders" in a grove of trees west of Charleston, in Lafayette Twp. The spot
was thereafter (and still is) known as Dead Man's Grove. Mr. Coffman, who was
thought to be from the Sand Creek Settlement, was found and carried back to the
Parker settlement on the Embarras on horse-back by Samuel Kellogg, where an inquest
and burial was held.
From Wm. Le Baron, Jr., The History of Coles County, Illinois, 1879
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42. LIBERTY CEMETERY
No other information.
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43. McKENZIE CEMETERY
Located south of Charleston on Route 130, turn right and cross old bridge across
Embarras River, turn right and follow road. Cemetery is on left side of road.
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44. OTTERBEIN CEMETERY
No other information.
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45. PARKER CEMETERY
Located near the center of the section east and west and about one fourth of a mile
south from the north line.
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46. SALISBURY (GIFFIN) CEMETERY
Located south of Hutton to Salisbury Church, back in lane about 1/4 mile
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47. SARGENT CEMETERY
This cemetery is located a little over one hundred yards north-east, at the apex of
the slope, from the surveyors rock in the road which marks the corner of the south
east of the north east, and the north east of the south east 1/4, Section 1 T 2N R
10E (and the southwest of the north West)(and the north west of the south west,
Section 2 T 2N R 10E. Hutton Township, Coles County, Illinois.
Stephen Sargent having been bound over to a farmer in New Jersey, by his father who
left and never appeareed again, worked there a couple of years. By the time he was
seventeen, his father not showing up, he decided to go west with a family he knew who
were emigrating. So he walked into Ohio with them, where he worked a year, then
drifted down to Louisville, Kentucky. Here he learned the stone masons trade which he
worked at mainly until 1836. One of his largest jobs at his trade was building a
causeway approaching the Ohio River at Levenworth, some miles below Louisville. While
in Louisville he made at least two trips down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on flat
boats to New Orleans.
In 1836 with a partner by the name of Murphy, they bought a stock of goods and
shipped it by boat to a place probably near where Terre Haute Indiana now stands,
where it was loaded on wagons and hauled to New Richmond, Illinois. Now Westfield,
where they established a pioneer grist mill, and a few scattering log houses. His
store building was of logs. New Richmond was located on the road just west of the
main part of Westfield, about where the edge of town now is on the road leading out
past the Connelly and Davis neighborhood.
excerpted from Sargent Record
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48. STEWART CEMETERY Also called Sullivan
Located on a bluff. It was started long before Wiley Brick or Liberty Cemetery. Many
graves were moved to Wiley Brick Cemetery, also in Hutton Township.
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49. STRINGTOWN CEMETERY
John Rennels and Nancy his wife sold to William Smith, John Ashby and Jahn Davis,
Trustees for the State of Illinois Coles County, 1/2 acre of land for a burying
ground, 6 March 1854
Book S Page 274
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50. WELCH CEMETERY
No other information.
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51. WHETSTONE CEMETERY
William and Mary Jane his wife and Elizabeth Strader sold to James Rennels, Josiah
Troxel and Silas White, trustees for the State of Illinois Coles Co. land for a grave
yard, 22 April 1854.
Book U page 777.
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52. WILEY BRICK CEMETERY
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