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The cemetery is located in Avon, Fulton County, Illinois.
In the early years of Avon there was a Mailliard-Gallet cemetery on the north side of East Woods Street. Later, it is reported, the stones were moved to the Avon and/or St. Augustine cemeteries. Another cemetery was located on O.H. Woods land at what is now the southeast corner of Main and Cortland Streets. About fifty graves were present, when on April 28, 1855, a group met and organized to buy ground for a new graveyard. They purchased four acres from Stephen Tompkins for $100. Forty-nine bodies were moved and the remains of one was left (Records do not indicate the identity of this person, nor why the remains were left.).
The first person interred was Asa Woods on August 5, 1855 (taken from March 30, 1899 Avon Sentinel). All the early settlers stones are located in the northwest section, called
"Old Cemetery." The grounds have been enlarged several times since 1855.
The Avon Mausoleum Cemetery Association was formed January 11, 1919. The structure for 100 crypts was built and they were sold privately.
There is a large monument located near the entrance of the cemetery, engraved: "Erected to the memory of the soldiers of 1861-1865 by the W.R.C. and Citizens of Avon, Illinois, 1918."
- Above information comes from Josie Baughman's "History of Avon."
AVON CEMETERY DIVISIONS-
Cedar Addition is a nineteen lot long section, which is one lot wide, numbered west to east, and located along the south sides of blocks two and one of Hatch's Addition
and block three of Durie's Second Addition.
Durie's Addition is a section one lot wide, running north to south, along the east sides of block one of Beam's Addition and blocks one and four of Hatch's Addition, as well as the
west side of Durie's Second Addition, blocks one, three and four.
Durie's Third and Fourth Additions burials are shown only by lot number in the cemetery records, but for ease in location, are divided into lots and the lots numbered for this book,
as shown on map.
Maple Addition is a thirteen block addition numbered west to east, which is one lot wide, along the north sides of blocks one and two of Beam's Addition.
Front Addition is a section one lot wide, numbered north to south, along the west sides of blocks two and three of Beam's Addition and blocks two and three of Hatch Addition.
- Taken from Cemetery Inscriptions of Fulton County, Illinois, Vol. 10, p. 58, c. October 1985, Fulton County Historical & Genealogical Society.