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Believe to have originated in 1817. The land was donated by the James' family decendants of the Rev. William James. It is speculated that since the cemetery is located on a hill they thought it unfit for farming, and it was then dedicated.
Tradition has it that it has the gravesite of Antoinette Stover, grandmother of President Dwight David Eisenhower, as well as the first white child born in the county, preachers, and the only person executed in Vermillion County.
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