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This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Within park boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, [ 11 ] 20.09 acres (81,300 m 2 ) with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Just outside the cemetery proper is the Hazen Brigade Monument (1863), the oldest surviving American Civil War monument standing in its original location.
This page categorizes burials at Springfield National Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Pages in category "Burials at Springfield National Cemetery" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Sep. 4—A burial stone dating to 1794, the oldest in the Middle Village Cemetery in Springfield, received a roadside historical marker Friday, Aug. 30, funded by the private William C. Pomeroy ...
The 600 acre (2.4 km 2) National Battlefield includes Stones River National Cemetery, established in 1865, with more than 6,000 Union graves. [40] The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 74 acres (0.30 km 2 ) of the battlefield, some of which has been sold to the National Park Service and incorporated into ...
James Gillespie (1747–1805), Revolutionary War soldier, Representative – North Carolina, reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1893 at R60/S58. Cenotaph at R31/S59. Francis Jacob Harper (1800–1837), Representative Pennsylvania, died before taking office. Reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1848. R55/S101.
During the Civil War, Camp Butler was the second largest military training camp in Illinois, second only to Camp Douglas in Chicago.After President Lincoln's call for troops in April, 1861, the U.S. War Department sent then Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Springfield, Illinois, to meet with Governor Richard Yates for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a training facility.
The German Waldheim Cemetery was organized by a group of German Masonic Lodges in 1873 with the first interment on May 9, 1873. [8] The Waldheim Cemetery was established as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons , Romani , and German-speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation.