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  • Jo Daviess County, Illinois

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Official Website Jo Daviess County was formed in 1827 and was named for Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, United States District Attorney for Kentucky, who was killed in 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Maj. Daveiss' name was widely misspelled and locals pronounce it as 'Davis'. Adjacent Counties Carrol...

  • Greenwood Cemetery, Galena, Illinois

    Greenwood Cemetery is a public cemetery in West Galena Township in the city of Galena, Illinois. It is located one mile west of downtown Galena at the intersection of US 20 (Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Highway) and Gear Street. Greenwood Cemetery interments include United States Civil War veterans and casualties along with a number of staff members from President Ulysses S. Grant's administratio...

  • Blair Cemetery, Jo Daviess County, Illinois

    This cemetery is located in the northwest quarter of Section 28, near the intersection of South Willow Road and East Blair Hill Road in Wards Grove Towship, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Take Route 20 east of Stockton to Willow Road, south on Willow to to intersection of Blair Hill Road and Kent School Road. Left on KS Road, about 1/10th of a mile. Cemetery is on the right, behind a farm field,...