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Armstrong Family Cemetery, contributed by Laura of Elmore, IL. Knox County, IL Cemeteries I am calling this cemetery Armstrong on account of it's what Laura called it. She said it has been there for years & nobody has ever done anything about it and makes her mad what the farmer is doing to it. She thought of me in my quest to try & help & do something about this sort of thing. So, I am try'n my best as the farmer will soon be picking beans and driving back over these poor people's stones with no one there to stop him. So, Please Help!!! Thanks!!! If you have any information on the persons buried here I would love to hear from you and also any other possibilities of people buried here. I am working on finding out more about it. Thanks so much for your time.
Link to second photo page at bottom of this page. anyone having any information on these people or this cemetery I want to hear from you!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for UR time!!! Link bar at end of page
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Annie's with the top of what looked to be another child's stone that has
a touch on it. on the left side of the pictu |
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for one of the stones. there were of several of these.
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| Today is Tuesday, September 30, 2008, I did go to the library yesterday to look up some things on the people buried here but got lost as I generally do when trying to find something. Another article will catch my eye or I'll see a name that someone is looking for and I'm off going somewhere else. My quest for today is to find out who owns the property and to try and put a stop to them driving their machinery over the top of these people's grave's and ruining what little is left to show where they are buried. Looks to me like yet another farmer has ruined the last resting place of one of our ancestors. |
To get to this cemetery if you are in Williamsfield, IL, head out north
on IL Sate Hwy 180, about two miles, just before the Caldwell Creek is a
cross roads. You turn East right on 1660N. You stay on that road and
follow it. when you see a curve it turns into 2325E. you will also see a
dead end sign follow that road straight east. just before you come to a
for Sale sign on a new house property and the curve in the road pull
over. You will see a mound, not so much a mound any longer as I cut most
of it down this afternoon, but it looks like a water way in the bean
field. That is where the cemetery is. If this is the Greep - Anderson
Cemetery then there should of been about 1/4 acre. It's about the same
place. And so named on account of the Eric Able & his wife Caroline J.
Greep conveyed a warrant to John A. Anderson of County of Knox except
for one fourth of an acre to be used as a cemetery. So, there should be
more people buried here. Plus, the
Kate
standing where most of the tombstones are piled. some are scattered
around this little area. the road you see if the distance will
take you heading west and the way I came to IL State Hwy 180 which would
be a little north of Williamsfield, IL, and just above the Caldwell
Creek where the highway crosses over and the road continuing on west
goes right by the Old Caldwell Cemetery, and on over to my house. if the
follow the gravel road on easternly & nothernly it will eventually take
you into Elmore. this road is a dead end road off of it with or what
looked to be and old farm homestead on the corner with on an old corn
crib, barn, etc. left to show for it.
Daniel K. Armstrong was a member of the Co E 85 Reg. Ill Inf. of the
Civil War he died while in the Civil at the young age of 18yrs8ms9ds.
His remains seem to be buried down by Bowling Green, KY. 
John
C son of ?? & M. A. Armstrong all you can read on this little fella's
tombstone. It's about broken up. 
re.takes almost 8minutes to download over a slow internet connection. I tend to try & leave my photos a little large for better viewing. any one having any information on these people or this cemetery I want to hear from you. Thanks!
of this cemetery nearly destroyed by a farmer by his driving his farming equipment over the place of burials.
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