Starrs Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Illinois

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Get directions Wilmington, Illinois, USA

Coordinates: 41.36030, -88.10000
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The following information is from the book "The Cemeteries of Will County, Illinois, No.6: The Arsenal Cemeteries--German Evangelical, Klingler, McCune, Newton, Reed's Grove, and Starr's Grove. Inventories of Gravestones with Index, Maps and Illustrations." Edited by D. Andrew Bale, published by the Will/Grundy Counties Genealogical Society, PO Box 24, Wilmington, IL 60481, 2002.
"For almost fifty years, the 'Arsenal Cemeteries'...lay within the boundaries of the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant ("the Arsenal"). The Joliet Arsenal made some effort toward protection and upkeep of the graves, even to the point of repairing and resetting some of them but access to the cemeteries by the public, and even by family members, was restricted.
"Like many rural cemeteries, these probably began as private burial sites for the family owning the property. Then, because that family had established a place for burials, close neighbors and itinerant farm workers might also seek permission to bury family there.