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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pulaski County, Illinois. Official Website Pulaski County was formed on March 3, 1843 and was named in honor of Casimir Pułaski who was killed at the Siege of Savannah in the Revolutionary War. It is located along the Ohio River in the southwestern portion of the state, known locally as "Little Egypt". Adjacent Counties Johns...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Pike County, Illinois. Pike County was formed in January 1821 out of Madison County. It was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, leader of the Pike Expedition in 1806 to map out the south and west portions of the Louisiana Purchase. Pike served at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and was killed in 1813 in the War of 1812. Prior to the coming of t...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, Illinois. Official Website Lawrence County was formed in 1821. It was named for Captain James Lawrence, who was killed in action during the War of 1812 while commanding the frigate USS Chesapeake. Mortally wounded, he gave his men the famous last order, "Don't give up the ship." Adjacent Counties Crawford C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Menard County, Illinois. Official Website Menard County was formed in 1839 out of Sangamon County. The county was named for Pierre Menard, the first lieutenant governor of Illinois. Abraham Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincol...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pope County, Illinois. The county was organized in 1816 and named after Nathaniel Pope, a politician and jurist from the Illinois Territory and State of Illinois. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Saline County Livingston County, Kentucky Massac County Johnson County Williamson County Cities, Villages & Communities...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wabash County, Illinois. Wabash County was formed in 1824. The county is named for the Wabash River, which forms its eastern and southern borders. The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache."' French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (pronounced ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Illinois. Official Website Warren County was organized in 1825 and was named for Dr. Joseph Warren, killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He is believed to have been the first officer to die in the Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Mercer County Knox County Fulton County Henderson County McDo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mason County, Illinois. Mason County was created in 1841 and is named in honor of George Mason, a member of the Virginia legislature who campaigned for the adoption of the United States Bill of Rights. Adjacent Counties Logan County Menard County Tazewell County Cass County Schuyler County Fulton County Cities, T...
This cemetery is located on 15766 North Mississippi River Road, Hamburg, Calhoun County, Illinois. Find a Grave IL Gen Web Billion Graves
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Schuyler County, Illinois. Official Website Schuyler County was formed in 1825 and was named for Philip Schuyler, member of the Continental Congress and Senator from New York. Adjacent Counties Hancock County McDonough County Fulton County Adams County Brown County Cass County Mason County
Consecrated in 1893, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery was established to serve the growing Polish community in the southeast Chicagoland area. Located in Calumet City, Illinois, the Cemetery spans 141 acres and has over 99,000 interments (as of 12/31/22). In 1983, the Garden Mausoleum crypt complex was opened, which features outdoor above-ground burial spaces for full-body and cremated remains. ...
This cemetery is located on West College Avenue, Normal, McLean County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 1010 Jefferson Street, Mendota, LaSalle County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on County Road 3000, Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia =Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) is a Christian liberal arts university located in the village of Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States. Named for Olivet, Illinois, ONU was originally established as a grammar school in east-central Illinois in 1907. It is affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene and is the annual site of the Church's "Regional Celebrate Life" youth gathering for the...
This cemetery is located on 109 NE 2nd Street, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This project is for those that were born, lived, or died in Fulton County, Illinois. Fulton County was organized in 1823 from Pike County. It is named for Robert Fulton, developer of the first commercially successful steamboat. American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters lived in Fulton County during the 1890s; he later became famous for the Spoon River Anthology, written in 1915. Fulton County...
Original Cemetery donated to the village by Joel Wood. The earliest gravestone dates to 1854. The Hillside Cemetery Association was formed in 1946 and Palatine Township took over the cemetery in 1996. The gate opens on Smith Street north of Colfax Street. There was formerly another, smaller opening south of the main gate, now closed off with the fencing. The first 18 plots are to the left of ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Champaign County, Illinois. Official Website Champaign County was organized in 1833, having been previously a part of Vermilion County. The county and county seat were named for Champaign County, Ohio and Urbana, Ohio respectively, the homeplace of the Illinois legislator who sponsored the bill to create the county. The development...
This cemetery is located on South Route 33 East Main, Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois. It's also known as Robinson Cemetery and Robinson New Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Lackey Cemetery, Palestine, Crawford County, Illinois. Find a Grave Roots Web
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Logan County, Illinois.= Official Website =Established in 1839, Logan County was named after physician and State Representative John Logan, father of Union General John Alexander Logan. Adjacent Counties * DeWitt County * McLean County * Macon County * Menard County * Mason County * Sangamon County * Tazewell County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Illinois. Official Website Jefferson County was organized in 1819, out of parts of White, Edwards and Franklin Counties. It was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, principal draftsman of the Northwest Ordinance and 3rd president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Hamilton County Franklin County Perr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stark County, Illinois. Official Website Stark County was formed in 1839. It was named for General Colonel John Stark (August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822), who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennin...
This cemetery is located on 9800 IL-76, Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves