30th Regt. ILL Inf. Co. A

Thanks to Guy B for creating memorial and many thanks to Dig Up #47525629 for transferring the memorial to me to manage. I had created a cenotaph memorial at the Soldiers Monument in Oquawka and it got merged with this one.

Thanks to my sister BKage #48921676 for the photographs of the monument.

On 7/4/19 with the help of Find A Grave I created a cenotaph memorial cemetery for The Soldiers' Monument of Henderson County located in Oquawka, IL. It is for the Henderson County soldiers like William who died in the Civil War. All those memorials have been merged or changed to unknown.

His actual burial is Cumberland Cemetery

U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
Name: John J Burruss
Birth Year: abt 1835
Place of Birth: Kentucky
Age on 1 July 1863: 28
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Residence: Biggsville, Henderson, Illinois
Congressional District: 4th
Class: 1

Source: History of Mercer And Henderson Counties pgs 1410-1414.
W.W. Webster of Muscatine Iowa was selected to construct the monument that was finished in October of 1874. On the monument is inscribed , on it's four sides, 200 names of soldiers in Henderson County who fell in the field or died in the service of their country. The monument was erected by the private liberality of the people; subscriptions varied from $5 to $50. The cost was $3,300. The location is in the center of a beautiful enclosed park, planted to deciduous and evergreen trees, comprised in lots 1, 4, and 5, block 4 Swartz' addition, donated by John McKinney Sr., for many years a resident and business man of Oquawka. this handsome work is not more a monument to the glorious dead of Henderson County than to the affection, gratitude, generosity and patriotism of the happy and intelligent living.