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Aitken, Brown, Camp, Chapman, Curry, Edmondson, Kenyon,
Littlejohn,
Merriss,
Cemetery:       Merriss Cemetery
 Other:
 Sign:           No
 Street:         Fairview Road
 City:           Bluffs
 Township:       15N
 County:         Scott
 State:          IL
 Nation:
 Zip:
 lat_ns:         N
 lat_h:
 lat_mmss:
 long_ew:        W
 long_h:
 long_mmss:
 Status:         Abandoned
 Size:           Small
Directions:     North from Bluffs on Rte 100 to airview Road, follow sign to Fairview Cemetery, and pass cemetery about .5 miles, on right side of
road, across field in wooded area, an old wash.  An area in
the field still shows the base area of a huge antenna, and the
cemetery is past that...the antenna fell some years ago.
Type:           Road-public
 Location:       Rural
 Terrain:        Level
 Watersource:    No
 Features:  This cemetery may have running water in
heavy rain.  It is
 in a group of trees running along an old "wash", much
underbrush and moss
 Property:       Private
 Access:         Open
 Enclosure:      None
 Gate:           None
 Established:    not known, first burial found was 1843
 Gravestones:    50 found
 Oldest:         1843
 Newest:         1889
 Removed:        Unknown
 Relocated:      No
 Repairs:        No
 Methods:        Other
 Restoration:    No
 Association:    No
 Records:        Unsure
 Inventory:      Yes
 Availability:   The recording of this cemetery was
Accomplished 3 May 1981 by Larry Eugene Barton, James William Cowhick, Larry Michael Evans, Walter  Warren Haley, Carl and Wanda Guthrie Phillips and Edna McMahan Secrest.
 Landscaping:    No
 Paths:          No
 Trees:          Yes4
 Crypts:         No
 Fencing:        No
 Brickwork:      No
 Ironwork:       No
 Sculpture:      No
 Fountains:      No
 Roads:          No
 Buildings:      No
 Cement:         Unsure
 Granite:        Yes
 Marble:         Unsure
 Native:         Yes
 Slate:          Unsure
 Others:         Unsure
 Wood:           Unsure
 Materials:      Unsure
 Architectural:  Unsure
 Angels:         Unsure
 Draperies:      Unsure
 Fraternal:      Unsure
 Hands:          Unsure
 Lambs:          Unsure
 Monograms:      Unsure
 Plants:         Unsure
 Photos:         Unsure
 Religious:      Unsure
 Scrollwork:     Unsure
 Urns:           Unsure
 Carvings:       Unsure
 Condition:      Cemetery neglected
 Unmarked:       Yes
 Broken:         Yes
 Toppled:        Yes
 Disintegrating: Yes
 Buried:         Yes
 Weather:        Yes
 Pollution:      Unknown
 Vandalized:     No
 Report:         Yes
 VA1:
 VA2:
 VA3:
 VA4:
 VA5:
 Overgrowth:
 Overgrowth1:
 Overgrowth2:
 Overgrowth3:
 Overgrowth4:    Gravestones-Damaging
 Ground Cover:    Yes
Moss:           Yes
 Vines:          Yes
 Drainage:       Problem-Seasonal
 Problem1:       Encroachment
 Problem2:
 Owner:          Unknown
 Use:            Agricultural
 Bordering:      Agricultural
 Change:         Unknown
 Reason:         Roads
 Visited:        Unknown
 Archeology:     Unknown
 Habitat:        Unknown
 Contacted:
 Name:           Kathy Merris Mills
 Email:          ke6pxx@yahoo.com
 Date:           6/10/2005

 Surnames:
Aitken, Brown, Camp, Chapman, Curry, Edmondson, Kenyon, Littlejohn,
Merriss, Mc D..., Park, Reid, Stewart

Other Information:
I believe the land might now be owned by the College in Jacksonville, IL. That was what I was told in 1999. 

There are at least 4 war veterans
buried here:  D.S. Chapman, James H. Chapman, Benjamin Curry and William  T. Merriss.

 This land was originally owned by one of the early settlers, John Bethuel Merriss, and all buried here were either family of John B.  Merris and his wives, Eliza & Caroline, or were neighbors and friends.

Some pictures and the full list of "found" stones can be seen at this site: 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/scott/cemeteries/merriss.html
 

 
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