Burchard, Horatio Chapin b. September 22, 1825 d. May 14, 1908 US Congressman. He graduated from New York's Hamilton College in 1850, moved to Illinois and became an attorney. From 1863 to 1866 he was a member of the Illinois House. He won an 1869 special election as a Republican to fill the US House of Representatives seat left vacant when Elihu B. Wasburne resigned to become Secretary of State and then Minister to France. Burchard served the remainder of Washburne's term and was elected to four full terms, serving from 1869 to 1879. After running...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern) Oakland Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
Schofield, George Wheeler b. September 30, 1833 d. December 17, 1882 Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. At the out break of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in November 1861, serving with his brother John who was already a Major. He was at the Siege of Vicksburg Tennessee, as a Captain in Company A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in the 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Light Artillery. In command of the 2nd, he was in the campaigns of Georgia and was brevetted Brigadier General of U.S...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA Plot: NE 1/4, Range 14, Lot 4
Shaffer, J. (John Wilson) Wilson b. 1827 d. 1870 Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Utah Governor. Prior to the Civil War, he was active in Republican politics in Illinois, when commissioned an officer in the Union Army. For his war service, he was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers in March, 1865. After the war, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him the Governor of the Utah Territory in 1870 and he died while in office. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
Sheetz, Josiah Augustus b. January 6, 1837 d. January 8, 1883 Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, his family moved to Pekin in Tazewell county, Illinois when he was a young boy. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered and was made a first lieutenant in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After Expeditions to Cape Girardeau, Commerce, Bloomfield, and Norfolk, Missouri and Paducah and Blandville, Kentucky, he was promoted to captain in time for the assaults on Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. After...[Read More] (Bio by: Thomas Fisher) Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA Plot: NW 1/4, Range 8, Lot 5
Turner, Thomas Johnston b. April 5, 1815 d. April 4, 1874 US Congressman. He was raised in Pennsylvania and Indiana before settling in Freeport, where he studied law and became an attorney in 1840. In 1842 he was appointed Stephenson County Probate Judge, and in 1844 he became Freeport's Postmaster. He became Stephenson County District Attorney in 1845, and also established the county's first newspaper, a weekly called the Prairie Democrat. In 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat and served one term, 1847 to 1849. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern) Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA
b. September 22, 1825 d. May 14, 1908
b. September 30, 1833 d. December 17, 1882