Please add the profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in McLean County, Illinois. Official Web Site McLean County, Illinois was formed in 1830 and named after former Illinois Senator John McLean (D) . It is the largest county by area in the state of Illinois. The first white settlers in what became McLean County arrived around 1821. The first settlement was Blooming Grove, establish...
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Bloomington or Normal, Illinois. Bloomington and Normal are twin cities, though Bloomington has the larger population and is the county seat. Official Website Bloomington The Bloomington area was at the edge of a large grove occupied by the Kickapoo people before the first Euro-American settlers arrived in the early 1820s. Springing from the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McLean County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 8, 1883 and was named for John A. McLean, the first mayor of Bismarck. Adjacent Counties McHenry County Sheridan County Ward County Burleigh County Oliver County Dunn County
Wikipedia =Illinois State University (ISU), founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois and is located in Normal, Illinois. The University emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of the top ten largest producers of teachers in the US according to the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. The University's athletic teams are members of the Missouri Valley Co...
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery was originally two cemeteries. One was a family cemetery begun about 1825 on the farm of John Kimler. His relatives sold it to the City of Bloomington in 1850 and it became Bloomington City Cemetery , often referred to as "Old City" Cemetery. The second cemetery was founded by the Bloomington Cemetery Association in 1857, under the leadership of Linus Graves, and was...
This cemetery is located on corner of Empire Street (Route 9) & Airport Road, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Morris Avenue, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. The Jewish Cemetery has been serving the Jewish community of the Bloomington-Normal area since its first burial on February 4, 1876. Since then, over 200 burials have taken place. The Jewish Cemetery is a temple administered cemetery and acts in accordance with Jewish laws. Mos...
This cemetery, established in 1831, is located in Lake Bloomington, just north of Hudson on Ron Smith Memorial Parkway .2 mile west of 1825 East Road, in McLean County, Illinois. Land for the cemetery, adjoining the church, was donated on June 1, 1887, by Charles E. Cox, Effie D. Cox, J.W. Aldrich, Flora S. Aldrich, Jackson Vandegraft and Mary Vandegraft. It was a free burial ground for descen...
This cemetery is located on West College Avenue, Normal, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Grassy Ridge Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 535 North Road, McLean, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave
The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), located north of the rural village of Holder in McLean County, Illinois. It was once the site of a now-defunct village called Benjaminville, founded in 1856 after Quakers settled the area. More Quakers followed, and the burial ground, then the current meeting house...
The Memorial Garden at First Presbyterian Church was dedicated on October 4, 2020. It is a place of peace and repose for the cremains of those who have expressed a desire to be interred within the garden wall or the garden bed. It reflects the New Testament concept of the “communion of saints” which emphasizes the church’s ongoing relationship with those who have gone before us. The Memorial G...
This cemetery is located on Route 9 & Carole Drive, Dry Grove Township, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave IL Gen Web
Located behind the Old McLean County Home at 8996 U.S. 51 Highway, in Bloomington Township, Section 29, McLean County, Illinois. Cemetery is landlocked and not accessible. Stones are only numbered, no names. Find a Grave Beginning around 1879 and into the early 1930s, those buried included the penniless, the neglected, the mentally ill and physically disabled, as well as vagrants struck ...
Wikipedia =Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate liberal arts college located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856. It offers over 80 majors, minors and programs in the liberal arts, business, the fine arts, nursing, and eight pre-professional areas.The University'...
Pleasant Hill Cemetery is one of the earliest burying grounds in the area. It is said the first to be laid to rest in this place were two children of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Foster in 1829. The Patton and Foster families are given credit for founding this cemetery in 1830. John Patton, (1781-1854) the first white man to settle in Lexington Township is buried with his wife in this cemetery. John i...
Located on 1540 East Road, .3 mile South of Old Colonial Road, in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. It has also been known as Orendorff Cemetery , Hendrix Cemetery and Walker Cemetery . Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
The cemetery is located on 4408 East Raab Road, Normal, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Lexington Cemetery, also known as Porteus Cemetery , Lexington, Mclean County, Illinois. Find a Grave Lexington Genealogical & Historical Society
Located at corner of Lee & Wall , Lexington, McLean County, Illinois. Lexington Township, Section 7. NOTE: At Scrogin Cemetery all the stones have been moved so that they are all in rows and not where the bodies are actually buried. They put all the names of those buried there on one big stone. Find a Grave Lexington Genealogical & Historical Society Wiki Tree
This project is for those buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, also known as Rhodes Cemetery , Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This project is for those who are buried in Wilcox-Coon Cemetery, Lake Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Park Hill Cemetery was established in 1916 by Spencer Ewing, Casius Harlan, Martial Linn, and Loring B. Merwin. It was the first privately owned community cemetery in the Bloomington, Illinois area. It was designed by Herbert W. Blaney. Famous Interments: *Joseph William Fifer (1840-1938) Illinois Governor*Homer W. Hall (1870-1954) US Congressman *Harold Augustus Sinclair (1907-1966) Writer*Joh...
This project is for those buried in Station Baptist Church Cemetery, McLean County, Kentucky. The cemetery is located about one mile NE of Sacramento on the east side, or right, side of Hwy 81, as you head northeast toward Rumsey. Find a Grave