Old Indian Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Pleasant Grove Township, Illinois

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Get directions Pleasant Grove Township, Illinois, USA

Coordinates: 39.41461, -88.26626
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This cemetery, near the head of Indian Creek, was the buying place for the very early settlers of this part of Pleasant Grove Township. It was in use around 1830. The first Pleasant Prairie Church, which was the first Presbyterian Church in Coles County, was built at this location in 1832, the church having been organized in 1830.

The ground was given by Zeno Campbell and his wife, but was not actually deeded until 1861. It was then deeded to "Patrick Nicholson, Andrew Allison and William Morrison, trustees of the Pleasant Prairie Presbyterian Church, New School, for a buyring place forever." Mr. and Mrs Campbell are buried there. Many stones are now gone, from age. Some graves were never marked. The cemetery is no longer used for burials.

Old and New Indian Cemetery are separated by a creek.

NOTE: The Google map shows the two cemeteries which are adjacent to one another as being "The New Indian Creek Cemetery" and "The Old Indian Creek
Cemetery".
That is NOT correct! The word "Creek" is not part of the name of either
cemetery.