William G. Brown Farm Family Cemetery
Also known as Sheley Cemetery
Engelmann Township, St. Clair County, Illinois, USA
This burial ground is on private property, and the usual courtesies apply: visitors should obtain permission by stopping at the house next to the cemetery. Park along Rayhill Lane, north of the cemetery, and walk from there. Do not drive up the private driveway.
Local history says that a farmer pulled up all the stones in the middle 1900's in order to plow. The stones were reset in their present location, slightly north of the original location, where they have remained untouched. The cemetery is in good condition but it is not known whether there were additional burials at the original location.
According to Mr. Marvin Dickhaut, who lives nearby the cemetery, the section destroyed was in the SW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Sec. 3. He said the cemetery was twice the size it is now.
The cemetery's burial list came from an issue of the St. Clair County Genealogical Society's Quarterly, and has been expanded following a 2015 site visit.
This burial ground is on private property, and the usual courtesies apply: visitors should obtain permission by stopping at the house next to the cemetery. Park along Rayhill Lane, north of the cemetery, and walk from there. Do not drive up the private driveway.
Local history says that a farmer pulled up all the stones in the middle 1900's in order to plow. The stones were reset in their present location, slightly north of the original location, where they have remained untouched. The cemetery is in good condition but it is not known whether there were additional burials at the original location.
According to Mr. Marvin Dickhaut, who lives nearby the cemetery, the section destroyed was in the SW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Sec. 3. He said the cemetery was twice the size it is now.
The cemetery's burial list came from an issue of the St. Clair County Genealogical Society's Quarterly, and has been expanded following a 2015 site visit.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 108216
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