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Abandoned Cemetery..... is lost is lost and needed to be found.... & has been found!!! |
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Christy Cemetery of Lawrence County, IL Cemeteries |
created June 06,
2006 11:58am
Thursday, November 15, 2007 09:04:54 AM
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This family cemetery is in the middle of a cornfield on a working farm. It is located right outside of Sumner. Coming from Lawrenceville, highway 50 is divided, right before it goes back to a combined highway and near a bank is where the farm is located. Christy Cemetery dates back to 1829 on land originally settled by Andrew Christy, who is buried here. and a son William Y Christy. Nearly all of the burials were made in the mid 1800's. There is the Clubb family was interned here too due to cholera or some other influenza in 1851. Of the seven children, three lived on to adulthood. Three members of the Christy family died between March and July 0f 1842. All photos below were contributed by Mac Christy a direct descendant of Andrew Christy. Mac lives in the state of Kansas but is trying his best to give the last resting place of his ancestors some dignity. Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Mac.
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