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Hurricane Cemetery is located about 8 miles south of Charleston, Coles Co, IL on IL State Route 130 and is situated in S18, T11N, R10E in Hutton Township. The earliest burial in this cemetery was reported to have been in 1837. [Source: "The Prairie Sleeps", 1994, Coles Co Genealogical Society, which cited a May 28, 1910 Charleston newspaper article by J.K. Rardin.]
The first log Church house for the Hurricane Creek Baptist church was built there in 1837 or 1838, and served its purpose until about 1857 or 1858, when a framed structure replaced it. This Church house was replaced in 1887, and was used until it burned in 1936. The present Church house was built in 1936/7 and is still in use. [Source: Coles Co History Book. Article submitted by Mrs. Palmer Cottingham.]
This cemetery is located about eight miles south of Charleston on IL Route 130, in Hutton Township.