Harper Cemetery

Harper Cemetery

Harper Cemetery is located in Chestnut township, Knox County, Illinois. Southwest section 2, five miles west of Maquon 1/2mile south, near Harper School.

Surname	Name Surname of wife	Birth date	death date	other
Briggs	Maude			dau. of Judson Willmont & Priscilla (Jones)
Cramer	Sarah A.		Apr. 24, 1871	ae 65yr 7m 11d
	William		April 24, 1875	ae 70 yr 3m 29da
	Charlotte B.			wife of R. S.
Conner	Jemina		July 16, 1856	wife of G. W. ae 36yr 8m 29da
Jones	Peter			Father
	Sally Oliver			Mother
Smith	George M.	1829	1876
	Rachel E.	1836	1876	wife of G. M.
	Priscilla I	1857	1859	dau. of G. M. & R. E.
Nickerson	Uzzi	July 03, 1789	Feb 13, 1874	corrections of spelling of name by a descendant.
	Elizabeth	Dec 04, 1797	Feb 13, 1874	wife of Uzzi note they died on the same day.
Conner	Emely		Sept 02, 1856	dau of G. W. & J ae 10m 7da
	Lynda M		Apr 10, 1855	dau. of G. W. & J. ae 1yr 9m 25da
Hearn	James J.		Dec 03, 1859	ae 27 yr 11m 6da
	James U.		Dec 03, 1847	son L. R. & M ae 10m 2d
	Samuel			nothing else on tombstone
Tucker	Josiah		Aug 14, 1879	ae 53yr 9m 2d
	Catherine P		June 01, 1863	wife of Josiah ae 33yr 9m 19d
Steveson	Zachariah		May 11, 1848	ae 66 yr 11m 24da
Stevenson	Sarah Stevenson	Should be buried here.		contributed by Todd Walter.
Jacobs	Estella E.		Sept 07, 1872	dau. of C. O. & R. A. ae 1yr 5m 22d
Conner	Emma		June 16, 1856	ae 36yr 8m 2d wife of G. A.
Snell	Sarah		July 16, 1856	ae 17yr 7m 28da wife of J.
Wainwright	Clara L		Oct. 07, 1862	dau. of D. & E. ae 1yr 8m 3da

Need to find and visit this one also to see what would be left of it.

Click on link above to go to Harper Cemetery Update page w/photos it will amaze you what someone did to this cemetery.

UPDATE HAVE BEEN TO THIS CEMETERY AND ALSO MET A GENTLEMAN

Help! Help! Help!

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This Cemetery is very much in need of some help. If you would care to donate your time, donations to help with repairs, have family buried here, or anything you could do to help in the renovocation of this cemetery either click on my doggie to email me or write me at

Foxie Hagerty
RR #2 Box 63
1635 Sherwood Road
Dahinda, IL 61428

Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

HAD BEEN WANTING TO MEET. WILL POST PHOTOS OF IT ONLINE on the above link AS SOON AS I GET A CHANCE. IT IS IN A VERY VERY POOR CONDITION AND NEEDS OUR HELP. EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO THIS CEMETERY IS A SHAME AND I WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.

FOXIE CLICK ON MY NAME TO EMAIL ME.

Have been ---Need to find and visit this one also to see what would be left of it.

Click above to see my update as of October 16, 2005, when visited the cemetery and finally met a man I have great respect for and had been wanting to meet for a quite sometime. Thanks.... Happy Days....

link bar below for cemeteries possibly with photos on Foxie's Web site. Just click on the name you want to go to.... Enjoy........ Pleasant Happy delightful days to you and yours....