McDonough County Cemetery Markers Photos

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Previously, the McDonough County Historical Society located cemeteries in the county and placed a marker at each one, so the cemeteries would not be lost and so that those who came before us will not be forgotten.

A marker has been placed at 95 cemeteries in the county.

The McDonough County Cemetery Marker Project was a project of

the McDonough County Historical Society, Macomb, Illinois.

The project was coordinated by Gil Belles

of the McDonough County Historical Society.

The cemetery markers project was supported by Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral

Home in Macomb and Blandinsville, the Community Quality of Life

Advisory Committee, Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home in Macomb, Table Grove State Bank,MidAmerica National Bank, the McDonough County Highway Department, the McDonough County Genealogical Society and the McDonough County Historical Society.

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Amy Fansler, Juanita Bryan, Jessica and Jordan Fansler - Almshouse Cemetery

Jan Shoemaker - Anderson and Huff Cemetery

Galen Olson - Arberghast-Pearce Cemetery

Leon Bainter, Dick Lacey, and Jim Frisbie - Archer-Bethel Cemetery

Robin Hinchee, Bridget Napolitano, Roger Frowein and Kenny John- Atkinson Cemetery

David Ridge, Annette Hall Morgan, and Debbie John - Bailey Cemetery

George Sewell and Gil Belles - Bardolph Cemetery

Dave Ruebush -- Sarah Beckelshymer Gravesite

Craig L'Hommedieu - Bowlin-Wayland Cemetery

Fred and Baleigh Harn - Bushnell Township Cemetery

David Hynek and Penny Lawyer - Chockley Cemetery

Craig L’Hommedieu - Clark-Evans-Woods Cemetery

Maurice Litchfield and Wes Henness - Craig Cemetery

Arlin Fentem and Merle Parks - Dunkard Cemetery

Charles and Walter Lewis and Charles Irish - Friendship Cemetery

Betty Shoopman and Pat Cordell - Gibson Cemetery

Bernard Lewis and Bob Moore - Guy-Pleasant View Cemetery

Dick Hainline - Hainline Cemetery - sign has since been removed

Janice Hamilton King - Hamilton Cemetery

Marlin Pendell (left) and Brent Payne - Hickory Grove Cemetery.

John Cuba (left) and Gerald Waddill - Hills Grove Cemetery

Diana Kreps and Don Logan - Hutchinson Cemetery

Jere and Paula Greuel - Industry Cemetery

Darrell Roberts (left), current property owner, and Carol Gooden, former owner, accept a new sign for the King Cemetery.

Howard Daniels and George Swartzbaugh - Mound Chapel Cemetery

Steve and Joan Biswell - Murray Gravesite

Matthew Butler, Valerie Butler, Eli Butler, Kathy Butler, Megan and Emily Butler - Mustain Gravesite

Marion and Ken Keudell draw attention to the new sign at the Old Macomb Cemetery.

John Oakman - Old Prairie City Cemetery.

Dr. Jon Dively and Peggy Pennington Foster - Pennington Cemetery

Bernadine Gustafson and Ann Hiland - Peterson Gravesite

David Raymond, Gene Raymond , Judy Raymond Brooks, Gary Raymond - Pioneer Cemetery

Ann and Kendall Knowles - Post-Shippey-Dew Cemetery

David Havens, Kenny Garrett, and Kevin Walter - Prairie City Cemetery

The Rev. Richard Pricco-Sacred Heart Cemetery

Macomb High senior Joe Howard - Simmons Cemetery near Spring Lake.

Simmons Cemetery - The final crew who helped Joe last week, from left, Tom Green (project supervisor), Ely and Mel Blasi (crew), Joe Howard, and Richard Thurman, Bishop of the Macomb Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Scout Troop sponsor.

Mike Woodside - Mordecai Springer Gravesite

Garold Parkins and Sheryl Parkins Voorhis - Stevens Cemetery

Ben Burdick, Larry and Mary Graves - Stickle Cemetery

Sue Frakes with Daylynn Alexander--Stoneking Cemetery

George Burton - Strader-Nankivel Cemetery

Heather L. McIlvaine-Newsad and Russell Hamm - Unitarian Cemetery

Leona Waller - Upper Mound United Brethren Cemetery

Vera Wheeler and Richard Russell - Vance Cemetery

Dan Curtis recently installed the Vawter Cemetery sign with the spelling corrected.

Alvin Curtis and Dan Curtis - Vawter Cemetery

Carol and Richard Hendrickson -- Waymack Cemetery

Gerald White and Wayne White - White Cemetery

Charlie McDaniel, Mike McDaniel, and Janet McDaniel Blue --Willey Cemetery

Richard Wilson, Ron Graham and Marilyn Wilson Graham - Wilson Cemetery

Donation Photos

Gordana Rezab (left), president of the McDonough County Historical Society, accepts a matching grant donation from Larry Jameson, representing Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home, to support the Cemetery Sign Project of the MCHS.

Bob Fischer, left, president of Assets Protection, Inc., presents a check for $250 to Gordana Rezab, president of the McDonough County Historical Society to support the cemetery sign project.

Eva Fisher (right), president of the McDonough County Genealogical Society, presents a donation to Dan Wise, president of the McDonough County Historical Society, supporting the cemetery sign project.

Mark Tibbitts (left) handing a donation from Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home to Dan Wise, president of the McDonough County Historical Society. Business partner Scott Conlin (right) looks on. Steve Tibbitts unavailable for the photo.

Bob Douglas, store director of Niemann’s County Market in Macomb, presented a matching grant donation for cemetery signs to Gil Belles, director of the cemetery project for the McDonough County Historical Society.

Louis Battin, far right, president of the McDonough County Historical Society, received a matching grant donation for the MCHS cemetery sign project from Jim Burke and Larry and Eric Jameson of the Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home in Macomb.

Marla Vizdal presents a check from the McDonough County Genealogical Society to Louis Battin, president of the Historical Society to support the cemetery project.

Donation from Dodsworth-Wallen-Piper Funeral Home for the cemetery sign marking project. Pictured (l. to R.) are President Roger Frowein, Patrick Burke, and Larry Jameson.

The McDonough County Historical Society received a matching grant donation for its cemetery sign project from Marilyn and Dick Jackson of Berwick, members of the McDonough County Genealogical Society.

Roger Frowein, President of the MCHS, right,
receiving a donation from Herb Strong, President of MidAmerica
National Bank, cosponsoring four cemetery signs.

Donation that the Historical Society received from the Table Grove State Bank. The picture is of President Roger Frowein receiving the check from Jack Baily, President of the Bank.

Donation being accepted from the Clugton-Tibbitts Funeral Home for the Cemetery Sign Project. Present for the donation was (L. to R.) Scott Conlin, Mark Tibbitts, President Roger Frowein, and Steve Tibbitts.

Receiving the donation from the The Community Quality of Life Advisory Committee's Promoting Local History Task Force Chair, Marla Vizdal, for the Historical Society's Cemetery Marking Project. Pictured are President Roger Frowein and Gil Belles