Bragg Cemetery Photo Gallery of Knox County, IL

created May 14, 2005 11:33 AM

Monday, October 24, 2005 12:48:41 AM updated

 

Cemetery Sign

this is a big B in a diamond it is made out of iron. then there is a fence around the cemetery. It is not mowed or anything. Just lies here.

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photo of the cemetery standing in it. You can barely see the tombstones for the weeds.

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another view of the cemetery while standing inside. this is looking from west to the east.

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View of cemetery taken from the road.

foot stone

M. A. H.

foot stone

F. ? M.

infant

can't read very well.

infant

may be the same as previous photo

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Elias

very old tombstone and about the biggest one in it. Made of concrete and almost all of the writing has been weathered away.

another photo of the big concrete one you can't read it anymore....

Back of the big stone previous. Thought something might be on it. But wasn't.

tombstones lying by a big tree.

Mooers

Mary daughter of

Allen

Frances daughter of J & S. M.

Allen

Dauris son of J & M

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Polly H. wife of Elias

this is right next to Elias tombstone. in the same row as the big stone you can't read.

view of the Allen children tombstones

Racheal's lease got caught on a branch and she couldn't move.

Moores

Loammi son of D. & H.

Allen

son of James and Sarah

foot stones

P. H. B.

probably for Polly H. Bragg wife of Elias.

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Racheal, my Sheltie, who accompanies me sometimes when going to abandoned cemeteries.

Plus, another view of the cemetery.

Jacking up my car to change my flat. my husband teased my daughter that if they couldn't find me they would leave me in the cemetery. She kept calling me on the cell to make sure where I was at. Really not hard to find.

Husband changing my tire. I had to call him because when I pulled up and got out of the car the driver's side back tire went hizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Then it was flat. So, Racheal and I did the cemetery. took a walk down the road east. and then went back to the corner of county road #8 to wait for husband to come and help us.

The mighty spare.... wanted to record this here so I wouldn't forget... first time have had a flat at a cemetery.

Racheal in the tall grass trying to cool off. It was pretty warm and with the flat tire and all...

Racheal

my doggie hiding in the tall grass. She got hot waiting to get the tire changed on my car.

this is a train going through East Galesburg on the way home we had to stop for. Kate wanted me to take a photo...

 

Elias Bragg Cemetery

Elias Bragg Cemetery is located in the Northeast corner of the northwest 1/2 section 4, Chestnut township, 1/2 mile east of county road #8 on Floyd Skinner farm.

You take county road #8 going south out of Knoxville, IL, which you find in the middle of the city.  Follow county road #8 to 600 N and turn left. Go on pass the first house on the right hand side of the road.  it's in a plot right next to it.  across from it there is a drive that goes back into where an old farm stead used to be.  This is where I parked.

Bragg, Elias d. Jan. 1867

Bragg, Polly H. wife of Elias died September 14, 1865

Moores, Francis dau. D. & H. b July 03, 1850 d. Sept. 01, 1853

Moores, Loommi son of D. & H. born Aug 10, 1845 died Oct. 08, 1845 This child's name is misspelled here.  Tombstone above reads as Loammi. 

Allen, Francis dau. J. & S. M. died Aug. 27, 1850 1y 2m

Allen, Daruis son of J. & S. M. died Sept. 1855 11m 4d

Allen, Julius son James & Susan Died Sept 01, 1865 2y 23 d

Allen, infant son of J. & s. M. died Oct. 12, 1855

Moores, Mary A. dau of E. & H. Born May 06, 1849 died Sept. 04, 1849

M. A. H. This is foot stones.... Genealogical Society doesn't note that but I will.

one stone unreadable.  Must be the big stone above.  It's the biggest one in the cemetery.

Sacred to the Memory of Mary   24, 1811 wife of rest is unreadable.

Fenced in plot un-kept. And you can see by the photos above that ancestors have forgotten these people.

 

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